Pre Market FEB 26, 2026

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Good morning traders, how are you today?
If your new here welcome
The markets are “flat’sh” this morning
$DJI ( ▲ 0.63% )  
$SPY ( ▲ 0.84% )  
$QQQ ( ▲ 1.45% )  
$IWM ( ▲ 0.48% )  

Everyone that has been here a while knows that I hike
I belong to a couple of different hiking groups, and actually even lead one
Lately I’ve been doing some training
What it is is I go to a local park, it has one big hill
I walk down the hill, then I walk back up the hill, I walk down the hill, then I walk back up the hill, again, again, and again. By doing that and not a long continuous walk my quads are getting a serious workout. My heart pumps, I can feel my blood flow…… And at the age of 60 my legs are gaining some serious strength. More strength than I had at 50. Far more…… At 50 I just hiked ( and biked ) but at 60 I started this hill training

That whip sawing I described the other day is kind of like that, and we’re still there
The market may be going no where fast but these short back and forths are building strength in the way of consolidation zones. And when stocks eventually do break out of these zones well let's allow the future to speak for itself

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$NVDA ( ▲ 1.41% ) the market isn’t as impressed as it looked like it would of been
That’s good news for us right now
It’s stable this morning right about $197.50
If it holds here this is what we’re liking

Here at theoptionscoach.net
We don’t chase stocks
We don’t go long if a stock is red
We buy at the MID price or better
We set STOPS and HONOR them

Bull Call Spreads for MAR 13, 2026
Buy the 197.5 Call
Sell the 202.5 Call
The MID price is 2.25

$COST ( ▼ 0.37% )  😁 😁 What a play / what a play / what a play 😁 
That one went 1-2-3 A / B / C by ~the ~ book
COST surpassed the 995 mark yesterday then broke north of $1001.00
That 1000 was a “psychological mark” for traders
What then happened was profit taking
If your still in it the stock is down hovering 992 this morning
Be watching for it to retake the 995 again here soon

It's time to grind
The Options Coach