Finishing Up Our Grading For 2025

The Last Of Our Annual Report Cards

This is Porter’s Daily Journal, a free e-letter from Porter & Co. that provides unfiltered insights on markets, the economy, and life to help readers become better investors. It includes weekday editions and two weekend editions… and is free to all subscribers.

We’re devoting this week’s Daily Journals to a practice that Porter has been doing for decades… issuing Report Cards for the newsletters that he publishes. Honest and thorough feedback is the key to earning trust and ensuring straightforward financial analysis and recommendations. As Porter likes to say: it’s the information I’d like to receive if the roles were reversed.

Today, we complete the grading with our remaining advisories – The Trading Club, Asymmetry, and Porter’s Permanent Portfolio.

Porter takes over with his final Report Cards below.

In May, we launched The Trading Club, with analyst Ross Hendricks taking the lead.

The Trading Club is a great example of how we try to constantly evolve to meet the needs of our subscribers. Readers are interested in being more active with their portfolios, but don’t really know where to begin, and many don’t know how to make trades safely.

You wouldn’t believe how many emails I get from readers asking about income… another topic readers are interested in. Hundreds of them. Because that’s what most folks want as they get older. Plus, a lot of our readers are retired or getting close, and they’re not chasing home runs anymore – they want reliability, predictability.

So we can’t afford big risks. We want to use options the way professionals do. To take away the mystery… and make it about income first, upside second.

Ross did a brilliant job of that. As of yesterday’s closing prices, our live tracking portfolio is up 17.9% since our May 30 launch date.

And when the time is right, we’ll also be adding high-confidence trades from The Trading Club. These are the moves that bring a little more steady income to the portfolio.

As many of you might know, I’ve done really well this year selling puts, the same core strategy behind most of The Trading Club picks. Selling puts is a great way to generate income or get great entry prices on stocks I want to own.