Every newsletter on the internet claims to be crushing the market. Most of them get quiet when you ask for the receipts.

Our sister newsletter Stocks & Income just put 2026's full record online. 134 picks: every outcome tracked, sortable, filterable, on the record. Wins and losses in one place, nothing hidden in a drawer.

You can click through the whole thing right here. But the part we want to draw your attention to is this:

Of the 134 picks, 81 were shaped by an AltIndex signal. Whether it was an AI Score, an alt-data flag, or a ranking, our data was used. The other 53 were editorial calls made without our data, and those picks used other people’s calls, news, and ideas.

That's a 12-point gap in how often a pick actually worked, depending on whether our data was used when they wrote it.

And the gap isn't just in hit rate. When the AltIndex picks did hit, they hit harder! The average return across the 81 AltIndex-flagged picks beat the editorial-only average by nearly 4 percentage points.

More of them worked. And the ones that worked worked bigger 📈

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Hit rate is one test. Actually buying the stocks is another. So Stocks & Income also built six $10,000 portfolios (with every pick drawn from AltIndex) and held them static. No rebalancing. No stop-losses. No second-guessing. Just: does the signal hold up when you leave it alone?

Here's how the experiments performed over 7 months:

And those numbers aren’t even annualized! Obviously, the robotics portfolio is not doing well, but neither is robotics as an industry. We’re pretty pumped about the results other than that, especially on the AltIndex Top 5 stocks.

The two best performers in the book are the two portfolios where Stocks & Income did the least work.

AltIndex Top 5 was literally just the five highest-conviction scores on our platform, held as-is. AltIndex 50 is the same idea with more names. Both green. Congress Copy, the only themed basket that beat the pure-signal portfolios, is still an AltIndex feed, just filtered through a very boring, very repeatable overlay (what Congress is disclosing).

Worth saying out loud: signals aren't guarantees. Not every AltIndex pick finished green. The robotics basket is down 23%. We're showing you the losers next to the winners on purpose. A 69% hit rate means nothing if you don't see the 31%.

But the pattern across 134 calls and six portfolios is the same thing we write about every week: the alt-data moves before the fundamentals do. Hiring trends, web traffic, insider buys, app install velocity… when those line up, the conviction often shows up in the stock not long after.

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What’s cooking in markets right now?

Congress Trades

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar disclosed 17 trades on April 22, and every single one was a buy. They were all executed between March 19–25 during the tariff-driven market selloff. This looks like a pure "buy the fear" deployment, likely totaling $200K+ across industrials, financials, consumer, and tech. She sits on the Financial Services Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee (where she chairs the Western Hemisphere subcommittee). Nearly all of these trades are solidly green since purchase, with several up double digits in under a month.

The standout pattern here isn't any single trade, it's more so her overall conviction. Zero sells and 17 buys during a week when the market was in panic mode is a strong directional signal, and the results so far suggest either excellent timing or something more.

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That’s it for today. Hope you found these signals helpful and/or interesting.

Have a great weekend, and happy trading.
— Brandon and Blake