Archive Category: Green Zone Fortunes Updates

In this week’s update, I discuss a portfolio stock whose business model is top-notch: Interactive Brokers Group Inc. (Nasdaq: IBKR). This is a popular brokerage with many professional traders … and for good reason. Last month, the company introduced crypto trading, which gives it another distinct advantage over most of its peers.

In this week’s video, I discuss our precious metals positions. We stopped out of Barrick Gold (NYSE: GOLD) and Pan American Silver (Nasdaq: PAAS) — and today, I recommend selling our positions in Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE: AEM) and SSR Mining Inc. (Nasdaq: SSRM) as well. Look, I know it’s cliché…

I write to my premium Home Run Profits subscribers every Tuesday. We have quite a history together. The service is going on 10 years old … so I’ve written upward of 500 weekly notes to them. And we’ve seen it all in that time! Up markets … down markets … sideways markets.

I handled September edition of our portfolio update a bit differently. Rather than going through each individual position, I dug into the numbers and looked at my charts to answer the question on everyone’s mind: What’s going on with the broad market? Monday was a bad day in the market. Stocks fell almost 3% … which didn’t really surprise me.

Welcome to the great computer chip shortage of 2021. New cars, video game consoles and computer parts are high-profile victims. But earlier this year, Goldman Sachs identified — get this! — 169 industries facing significant disruption due to a lack of small electronic circuits. In an economy as tech-centric as ours, chips seem to go in everything.