One year of Investor's Business Daily Leaderboard signals, mirrored to the dollar. Jun 2025 – Jun 2026.
That's the return on $71,250 of peak capital — +$1,575 after a full year of disciplined entries, raises, trims and exits. Essentially flat.
Total return over the identical window — alert-following vs. simply buying and holding the index.
In a roaring bull year, the constant trimming and exiting got whipsawed — handing back nearly everything the winners earned.
Profit / loss on each of the 25 open positions, marked to the latest close.
259 genuine position alerts, pulled with their exact send time, each priced at the real intraday price of that minute. A full position = $5,000; ½, ¼ scale linearly. Buy signals add, sell signals reduce. Marked to the latest close. Cross-checked against IBD's own weekly Trading Plan recaps.
The clock starts Jun 2025, where the email history begins — but the portfolio already existed. Positions held earlier are joined late or skipped, so pre-existing winners are under-credited. A long-time subscriber would show more — yet the turnover still clearly lagged buy-and-hold.