The Brimstone Index was a delicious and sinful portfolio. It rejected everything ESG and went for the gains in areas that require you to wear big-boy-pants. Booze, guns, nuclear, and gambling - the worse, the better!
Extremely little due diligence sprinkled with a dose of AI was the strategy for choosing these stocks - but that's exactly what they won't expect. Stay unpredictable, get rich! (it's science)
This experiment ran for one year from August 6, 2025 to August 6, 2026 with real money invested. The official result is now locked in below.

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Brimstone Index: Final Result

Finalized on August 6, 2026. The stocks were sold, the dividends were counted, and the experiment is now judged on realized cash return.

Initial Cost

$3,532.97

Net Sale Proceeds

$3,864.56

Dividends

$75.42

Net Gain

+$407.01

Gross stock purchase: $3,505.67. Gross sale proceeds: $3,891.86. Transaction fees: $54.60 ($27.30 buying and $27.30 selling). Final cash value after fees and dividends: $3,939.98. Net realized return: +11.52%. Taxes and currency conversion effects are not included.

The boring alternative won: the page's final-day S&P 500 baseline showed +$795.68 before fees, or +22.70%. After one buy fee and one sell fee, SPY would have ended around $4,297.45, for a net gain of +$787.88 or +22.45%. Brimstone underperformed the S&P 500 by about $380.87, or 10.93 percentage points, before counting any SPY dividends.

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Final Stock Snapshot

Fixed result for each holding at the sale price. This is the official one-year snapshot and will not change with market prices.

Nuclear Energy

Constellation Energy

CEG · 2 shares · $343.62 → $270.98

-$145.28

(-21.1%)

Sold for $541.96

Tobacco

British American Tobacco ADR

BTI · 9 shares · $56.54 → $59.18

+$23.76

(+4.7%)

Sold for $532.62

Fossil Fuels

Exxon Mobil

XOM · 4 shares · $108.40 → $152.41

+$176.04

(+40.6%)

Sold for $609.64

Guns

Sturm Ruger & Co

RGR · 14 shares · $33.43 → $38.48

+$70.70

(+15.1%)

Sold for $538.72

Gambling

MGM Resorts International

MGM · 14 shares · $35.09 → $44.99

+$138.60

(+28.2%)

Sold for $629.86

Alcohol

Brown-Forman B

BF.B · 16 shares · $30.54 → $28.41

-$34.08

(-7.0%)

Sold for $454.56

Defense

Lockheed Martin

LMT · 1 share · $428.05 → $584.50

+$156.45

(+36.5%)

Sold for $584.50

The official Brimstone result is locked above. This live section keeps tracking the same stocks after the sale, just to see how the portfolio would have developed if nothing had been sold.