Archive Category: Green Zone Fortunes Updates

Back in 1936, John Maynard Keynes revolutionized the study of economics by pointing out that humans weren’t always rational actors. Instead, especially in times of uncertainty, investors are often driven by what Keynes called “animal spirits,” or the “spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by qualitative probabilities.”

A little over a year ago (on March 28, 2024, to be precise), I recommended adding shares of Palantir Technologies (PLTR) to your Green Zone Fortunes portfolio. As I explained at the time, Palantir had a unique early advantage in developing high-end Closed AI systems:

It’s been an unprecedented week for stock markets, to say the very least. We’ve seen steep declines, sharp reversals, and a general sense that the market’s trying to react and respond to an unpredictable situation that’s still unfolding in real time. In fact, my goal with today’s video was to show you why it doesn’t pay to panic right now … and while recording, the White House announced its 90-day tariff pause, sending all major indexes into a neck-breaking rally higher … thus proving many of the points I argue in the video below!

We’re now just minutes away from President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement scheduled for 4 p.m. ET. While we wait for the exact details of the president’s sweeping new tariff package, it’s a good time to take stock of our current Green Zone Fortunes model portfolio. Specifically, how do our 25 active holdings compare to the performance of the broader S&P 500 index?

The house always wins — even when it comes to investing. But we can win, too… We don’t often think about the market makers working quietly behind the scenes, providing liquidity and ensuring trade volume flows as smoothly as possible. These often-overlooked counterparties set the bid-ask spreads for each trade we make, steadily raking in profits as trading volume grows through good markets and bad.