Last week’s Top Pick of the Week (TPOW) was a quick, rules-based win in a choppy tape. We opened SOFI on Monday at $25.77 and—true to the TPOW playbook—booked our 4% target the same day at $26.80. After we exited, SOFI kept running and was up as much as ~9% midweek, but the market’s Friday selloff knocked it back, leaving the weekly move closer to ~2% into the close. That path—early strength, late fade—matched the broader tape and vindicated our early take-profit discipline.
The macro backdrop turned quickly. Stocks spent much of the week grinding sideways before Friday’s tariff headlines hit risk assets and erased the week’s gains. SPY reversed hard into the close and finished the week in the red after the one-day downdraft, with mega-cap tech bearing the brunt of the move.
For our strategy, the takeaways are straightforward. When momentum is friendly early in the week, we press our edge and respect targets; when macro risk resurfaces, we let the rules protect the account. Closing SOFI at the 4% objective on Monday delivered a clean win and kept capital out of harm’s way when headlines turned markets lower into Friday. For readers who like to compare with prior weeks’ setups, you can find our running archive on the TPOW page.
To understand why this weekly approach compounds differently than buy-and-hold investing, see Why Weekly Stock Picks Can Outperform SPY Over Time
