Archive Category: Green Zone Fortunes Updates

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…

In last week’s video update, I told you how we’re currently experiencing a “reversion to mean” … with some of the market’s biggest breakout stocks coming back down to Earth. Many stocks have continued to decline since then, which means our portfolio adjustment was especially timely. (If you’ve not made those trades or watched the video yet, please click the link above to do so.)

We’ve all been there… You’re sitting in a new doctor’s office, clipboard in hand, filling out ANOTHER medical history form. All of the medical innovation in the world, and you’re still stuck writing out all our personal details and checking the boxes for preexisting conditions. (If I close my eyes, I can hear that little metal chain attached to the pen dragging across the page.)