Pre Market JAN 8, 2026

Good morning traders, how are you today? If your new here welcome
The markets are pulling back here in the Pre
$DJI ( ▲ 0.54% )  
$SPY ( ▼ 0.07% )  
$QQQ ( ▼ 0.77% )  
$IWM ( ▲ 1.11% )  

By now I’m sure you’ve seen that yesterday the U.S. Govt FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYY revised the food pyramid, and for the luvv of gawd it was so overdue…..

If your not familiar we as Americans were lied to in the 1970’s into believing that the base of everything we eat should be processed grains. We didn’t create it, it came out of Sweden for poor people to have food. But what happened here was food corporations jumped on it and promoted it as gospel. The more processed foods we ate the more money they made. Yesterday the Govt got it right for the 1st time in decades and literally turned the food “pyramid” upside down… About darn time…
This is the diagram that was released yesterday by realfood.gov

Yesterday I ate bison beef, broccoli, banana, eggs, olive oil, a green apple, an avocado REAL ACTUAL butter ( never processed 🤮 ) a red bell pepper, some hard cheddar cheese…That’s not counting my daily homemade juice drink I make with beets, cucumber and celery… These days that’s normal for me… Hopefully for you too
It wasn’t always like that, years ago I couldn’t go a night without giant bowls filled with pasta, followed by 3 scoops of ice cream, and that was after starting the day with sugar filled oatmeal. After I made the change in what I ate the change in how I felt soon followed

When we buy cheap junk stocks what do we get? Most of the time it’s not the results we’re after. By now you’ve most likely noticed that I prefer stocks that are over $300.00 with strong Volume
Yesterdays new add of $PLTR ( ▼ 2.88% ) in the $180.00 area isn’t unfathomable, as we like it on the chart and the Options on it can’t be ignored, they’re growing in strength

PLTR is up almost 3% here in the Pre, I normally don’t like highlighting stocks that are already moving, the reason is if a pullback occurs the prices will be off. But its holding at yesterdays high. Right now price is $186.40

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 FEB 20, 2026
Buy the 185 Call
Sell the 190 Call
Price is 2.13 at the MID

Long Calls with no downside protection but greater possible return:
Liking a few here:
JAN 16, 2026 the 200s are only 0.50 at the MID ( higher risk / reward )
FEB 20, 2026 the 200’s are 7.60 at the MID
MAR 20, 2026 the 220’s are 5.95 at the MID
PLTR reports earnings in just 3 weeks on FEB 2, 2026

$GE ( ▼ 3.58% ) and $GOOG ( ▲ 0.87% ) are both up this morning.. GE is one I seriously wish that I had bought more of… Will be looking for add ons today
$NVDA ( ▼ 2.23% ) is kind of “flattish”


It’s time to grind
The Options Coach