Archive Category: Green Zone Fortunes Updates

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.

One day before Valentine’s Day, my team launched a research report warning of a potential collapse coming for some of the market’s biggest stocks… These mega-cap “Magnificent Seven” stocks had dominated market returns for over two years. But our system was indicating things might soon take a turn for the worse. Unfortunately, our prediction turned out to be correct — and top tech stocks are continuing to slide lower in share price. For this week’s update, I wanted to share a special recap of that research presentation…

While the experts haven’t yet made it official, our current economic situation has all the hallmarks of a possible recession… A new report from JPMorgan recently pegged the chance of a recession at 40%, up from 30% last year, while pointing out that U.S. government policy was “tilting away from growth.” Of course, my colleague and rogue economist Andrew Zatlin is always quick to point out that these experts are very rarely right about big predictions…