Portfolios built with

Six portfolios, $10,000 each, all built on AltIndex.

We put $60,000 to work across six strategies. Every stock in every portfolio was chosen using AltIndex, so this is really a test of how you use AltIndex: as a pure-signal basket, or layered behind a theme like congressional filings, defense, retail sentiment, or robotics. Here's where they stand.

Portfolio breakdown

Each portfolio was funded with $10,000 at launch. Positions are held static: no rebalancing, no rotation, no stop-losses. Prices update three times per trading day from adjusted closes.

Portfolio vs. benchmark

Our portfolio (annualized)
~+18.5%
S&P 500 (annualized)
~+16.5%
Relative
+2pp ahead

Blended return is the equal-weighted average across all six strategies (each funded at $10,000). Annualized figures use CAGR: (Ending / 10,000)^(365/215) − 1, over the 215 days since launch.

What the numbers say

Let's be honest. The top two portfolios here are doing things that aren't normal. Congress Copy at +25.96% and AltIndex Top 5 at +23.41% are both annualizing in the 40s, which is not a rate anyone should get used to. Behind those two the field thins out quickly, and one position (Robotics) is doing its best impression of a venture fund. Blended, the whole book is beating the S&P, but narrowly, and mostly because Congress Copy and Top 5 are carrying it.

Congress Copy
Best performer in the book at +25.96%, annualizing ~48%. AltIndex picks filtered through disclosed congressional trades. Someone on the Hill files a trade, AltIndex confirms the signal, we hold it. Boring, repeatable, leading the book.
AltIndex Top 5
Right behind at +23.41%, annualizing ~43%. Five highest-conviction AltIndex scores, held as-is. No theme on top, no opinion from us. Just the signal, letting it run.
Reddit Top 10
Up +12.26%, annualizing ~22%. AltIndex picks filtered through retail sentiment on Reddit. Not leading the book, but comfortably ahead of the S&P.
WW3 Stocks ETF
Up +9.81%, annualizing ~17%. AltIndex picks with a defense-and-geopolitics theme on top. Roughly where the S&P is over the same window. Catalyst faded, theme cooled.
AltIndex 50
Up +9.21%, annualizing ~16%. Top 50 AltIndex scores, diversified. The other pure-signal basket. Broader book smoothed out the edges. Both pure-signal strategies (Top 5 and this one) are still in the green.
Top 5 Robotics
Down -17.57%, annualizing roughly -28%. Five AltIndex picks, all robotics pure-plays. Doing its best impression of a venture fund: the thesis might be right eventually, the timing hasn't been.

A few things stand out. The best portfolio is a themed play (Congress Copy), but it's following AltIndex signal underneath. Right behind it is pure-signal Top 5. Both of the pure-signal portfolios (Top 5 and Top 50) are in the green. The blended book is beating the S&P, but narrowly, with Congress Copy and Top 5 doing almost all of the heavy lifting and Robotics eating into the gain. The takeaway is still the same: AltIndex chooses quality when you just let it choose.

Every portfolio built with AltIndex

Every portfolio on this page was built with AltIndex.

Congress Copy (AltIndex picks filtered through congressional trades) leads the book at +25.96%, with pure-signal AltIndex Top 5 right behind at +23.41%. Both pure-signal baskets (Top 5 and Top 50) are in the green. Across the full newsletter, picks flagged by AltIndex hit — of the time vs — without. Same writers, same market, different inputs.

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Congress Copy
+25.96%
Best performer in the book
AltIndex Top 5
+23.41%
Right behind, pure signal