Twenty stocks, chosen by fifty years of evidence.
One portfolio. Twenty US-listed stocks at equal weight, balanced across the factors so it is not a bet on which one works next. Membership is the twenty, the case for each, and every trade as it happens.
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What the twenty are, and what to expect.
- One portfolio
- There is no second list behind a higher price, and no menu of strategies to choose between. The rules distill roughly 4,600 scored stocks into these twenty names.
- Mostly outside the S&P 500
- Most holdings are companies a few billion dollars in size — names the index barely weights, if it holds them at all. Whatever else you own, you almost certainly do not own these.
- Balanced across the factors
- Value, momentum, quality and the rest weigh in close to even. A portfolio that leans hard on one factor only works while that factor does; this one is built to hold up whichever regime arrives.
- Aggressive by design
- Twenty equal-weight positions swing harder than an index fund, and the method will trail the market in some stretches. That cost is stated here, up front, because it is real.
- The edge is the average
- Some of the twenty will lose money at any given time, and the trade ledger shows every one. The target is the average of the twenty beating the market by a few points a year, compounded.
Everything membership includes — there is no higher tier.
- The portfolio — the Ticker Nerd 20
- Twenty US-listed holdings, built by the rules from the same rank anyone can read for free — the names, the weights, and every change as it lands.
- A Know What You Own brief on every holding
- What the company actually does, what the evidence says about it, and the risks out of its own filings — the ones management is required to write down and would rather you skipped.
- The full rank, with the holdings marked
- Every factor score for all ~4,600 stocks, sorted any way you want, with the current holdings flagged and a brief linked on each. The scores are public; which ones the rules own, and when that changes, lives here.
- The record
- The equity curve and the full trade ledger on one page, with the date that separates backtest from live trading stated in plain sight.
- The emails
- The Market Radar every Monday, a note whenever the portfolio changes, and a brief in your inbox each time a new holding is written up. Nothing else.
The dashboard, in one minute.
No sign-up, no sales call — the real thing, recorded. What a member opens on a Monday morning is what plays here.
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What people ask before joining.
The stock pages show every rank free. Why pay?
A rank tells you what looks good today. It never tells you how many names to hold, when to buy, or — the hard part — when to sell. Membership is the applied version: a real book with position limits, a review schedule and a sell discipline, a written brief on each holding, and a note the moment anything changes. The scores are the raw material. The portfolio is the decisions.
Should I just buy an index fund?
For most people an index fund is a fine answer, and nothing here argues otherwise. Membership is for investors who want to own individual stocks anyway, and would rather run that part of their money on published evidence than on headlines — knowing it costs volatility and patience through the stretches when the method lags.
Will you tell me what to buy?
No. The model publishes what it owns and every rule behind it, and members can check the working on any holding. What nobody here will do is tell you what belongs in your portfolio, because we know nothing about your circumstances.
Is this financial advice?
No. This is general information and educational content only, not financial advice. It's published for every reader alike and doesn't consider anyone's personal circumstances. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Advice about your own situation can only come from someone licensed to give it, who knows your circumstances.
Are these hot tips?
No. There are no price targets, no trade alerts and no predictions about where a share is heading. What you get is one systematic portfolio and the evidence behind each name in it. If you want a stock that triples this quarter, this will disappoint you.
How much of this is AI?
AI drafts the briefs and runs the data pipeline — the work that can be automated, used openly. It did not design the model and it never picks a stock. The twenty come from the published factor rules, and those were built by a person.
What happens most weeks?
Nothing. Trades land only at the four-week reviews, and a typical review changes a name or two. A week whose honest answer is “no action” gets that answer plainly, and saying so is the product doing its job.
Is there a free trial?
No. Every plan carries a 30-day full refund instead, which is the same protection without the friction.
How does billing work?
Stripe takes the payment and handles the renewal; we never see your card. A reminder email arrives a week before each renewal, and you can cancel any time — nobody tries to talk you out of it.
What stays free?
The stock pages and the Monday Market Radar, permanently. They do not get thinner to push you toward paying.
Ticker Nerd is run by Aslam Ghouse, with the rules published and his own money in the same portfolio. Send a question and he answers it.