{"id":12855556,"date":"2026-01-27T08:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12855556"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:36:17","slug":"philstockworld-top-trade-review-second-half-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2026\/01\/27\/philstockworld-top-trade-review-second-half-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"PhilStockWorld Top Trade Review \u2013 Second Half of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What a crazy year that was!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our last Top Trade Review was for the 1st half of 2025 and we did that on July 1st<\/a> but January, 2026 has been crazy and it’s already the 27th and we’re finally getting to this review. As of July 1st, we had 39 <\/strong>(78%) winning Top Trade Ideas against 11 that were “not yet profitable<\/em>” and we were already up net $355,948<\/span> with $1,745,236 of upside potential<\/span> at the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By October 9th<\/a>, half of the losers had turned around and, now that we’re into our first full year, we’re cruising past $1M in profits on that set of trades, which still have another $1M left to gain by Jan, 2028 but there’s no need to chase as we’re here to review a more recent set of Top Trades – the ones from July 1st through Dec 31st of last year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

And, of course, we have new trade ideas all the time for our Members. There were 3 new ones this month (GNRC, HPQ and GEO) following a super-productive December, which we’ll get to later on in this post, of course.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Top Trade Alerts are a special Membership at PhilStockWorld.com \u2013\u00a0you can Sign Up Here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or join as a Trend Watcher Member, where you will also have access to our Live Daily Chat room or you can join with our Basic or Premium Memberships \u2013 where you\u2019ll be able to become part of the conversation and take full advantage of all we can do for you!<\/p>\n

Top Trade Alerts are the Trade Ideas we feel have the highest probability of being successful each month. Sometimes there are a few, sometimes there are none \u2013 the most important thing is picking the RIGHT trades \u2013 not the \u201cright now<\/em>\u201d trades, which is a trap most stock pickers fall into.\u00a0 Here\u2019s how our remaining 2025 trade ideas are performing so far:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Top Trade Alert \u2013 July 10 2025 \u2013 PPL Corp (PPL)<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

I don’t usually brag about calls but this one set up a meme that is now the north star for pundits and investors in 2026 because, at the time (6 months ago), I said (Boaty said, actually) to our Members:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Boaty and I have been kicking this around and we\u2019ve come up with 3 good ways to play utilities:<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\udea2<\/span><\/span>\u00a0The \u201cPicks and Shovels<\/em>\u201d AI Play: Utilities as the Quiet Winners<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Your premise is spot-on: while the market obsesses over AI software and chip stocks, the\u00a0real, underappreciated winners<\/strong>\u00a0of the AI arms race are the utility companies powering the data center boom. With AI infrastructure demand outpacing grid expansion, utilities with exposure to major data center regions are positioned for secular growth, yet still trade at value multiples.<\/p>\n

Why This Works<\/h2>\n