Freedom's April 2025 Portfolio Results

May 02, 2025 — by Michael Neal

Advanced Trade, Trend, and Risk Analytics

Another Tale of Two Hallves

In April, the DOW JONES 30 and S&P 500 fell into correction territory, while the NASDAQ COMPOSITE dipped into bear market territory. Then they all spent the rest of the month trying to claw their way back out of the holes they'd dug. But only the NASDAQ COMPOSITE got out of its hole.

But not Freedom.

Freedom's April portfolio started up and ended way up - at its high for the month of + 18.86%.

Freedom's Model Portfolio

  • Freedom: + 18.86%
  • DOW JONES 30: - 3.20%
  • S&P 500: - 0.80%
  • NASDAQ COMP: + 0.90%

So Freedom overwhelmingly beat all the major indexes - and the reason is simple: the indexes and their member stocks always have to be Long.

But Freedom takes advantage of shorting stocks to make money when its Short signal stocks go down while also making money on its long trades when its Long signal stocks go up.

How Freedom Beat the Indexes in April

Freedom's model portfolio in April took advantage of its Short signals to turn a profit and then turbo-charged its results by riding a Long signal hot streak into the end of the month.

That’s how Freedom ended the month of April - up + 18.86% - while the market indexes all fell further behind:

And below are Freedom's "PortfolioAnalyzer" module details - showing you how its trades accomplished those April results.

Freedom's Trade Metrics & P/L %



Trades:

  • Total: 21
  • Longs: 12 of 21 or 57%
  • Shorts: 7 of 21 or 33%
  • Outs: 2 of 21 or 10%
  • Winners: 13 of 21 or 62%
  • Losers: 8 of 21 or 38%

P/L %:

  • Total: Up + 18.86%
  • Longs: Up + 10.00%
  • Shorts: Up + 8.86%
  • Winners: Up + 22.07%
  • Losers: Down -3.21%

Freedom's Factors For Success

April's Key Factors:

  • Made more Long (11) than Short (10) trades
  • Made a great profit on its Long trades: Up + 10.00%
  • Made almost as great a profit on its Short trades: Up + 8.86%
  • Made more Winning (13) than Losing (8) trades
  • Gave back some profits with its Losing trades: Down - 3.21%
  • More than recovered lost profits with its Winning trades: Up + 22.07%

So Freedom's model portfolio took full advantage of its Short trades, improved its returns by staying longer in its Winning trades (avg. 3.06 days) than its Losing tradess (avg. 1.08 days), and so cut off those Losing trades quickly.

Because at the core of Freedom's approach to success is:

  • Let your Winners run
  • Cut your Losers quickly
  • Flip your Losers to try to recover with your next trade

And this is exactly how Freedom was designed to work:

  • Make money with its Long signals when your stocks go up
  • Make money with its Short signals when your stocks go down
  • Protect your money with its Out signals when your stocks go down - to preserve your profits and your trading capital


See? Freedom really is this simple...