Paid Subscriber – Quant Portfolios up for six weeks straight – Make all time highs – Update 05/04/26

Update 5/04/26 - Is sell in May and go away a viable investment strategy?

---

• Quant Weekly – Up over 57% since June 2025

• Quant 30 – Up over 58% since June 2025

• Legacy – Up over 300% since April 2023

• Changes to the Quant Portfolios

• Top Quant Stocks – Top Healthcare excluding BioTechnology,

• Education – Is sell in May and go away a viable investment strategy?

---

USA Stock market week ending 05/01/26

Major Index Performance (Weekly)

• SPY (S&P 500) +1.0% — Broad market continued its steady climb, posting another week of gains.

• DIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) +0.6% — Blue chips advanced modestly, trailing the broader market.

• ^IXIC (Nasdaq Composite) +1.2% — Tech remained the leader, delivering the strongest performance of the week.

• IWM (Russell 2000) +1.0% — Small caps matched the broader market, showing balanced strength.

Takeaways

• All major indexes finished higher, maintaining positive momentum

• Leadership remained slightly tilted toward tech-heavy Nasdaq

• Market performance stayed steady and broadly supported across segments

---

Market Drivers this Week (05/04/26 – 05/08/26)

• Monday — PLTR kicks it off, Iran still the wildcard

• Tuesday — Big macro + AMD = market mover combo

  • Services PMI = real read on the economy

  • AMD earnings = tells you if the AI trade is still real

• Wednesday — jobs preview

  • ADP jobs + ARM earnings = early signals on growth + AI demand

• Thursday — AI + consumer

  • CoreWeave = AI infrastructure reality check

  • ABNB, COIN, AFRM = consumer + risk appetite read

• Friday — Jobs report = everything hinges on this

---

The CNN Fear and Greed Index ends the week at Greed 66. This is the third week in row at the Greed setting. This follows nine straight weeks at the Fear or Extreme Fear setting. Risk-on is certainly in the drivers seat and the market reflects this.

---

The Quant 30, Quant Weekly and Quant Legacy Model Portfolios all made all time highs this week. Quant Weekly and Quant 30 have been higher for six weeks in a row. Risk On is fully in control and we have just the high quality momentum stocks needed to ride this wave up.