Weekly Recap FEB 16, 2026

Hey traders, how was your 3 day weekend?
Did you eat lots of chocolate on Saturday? 💘 
If your new here welcome
The markets last week
$DJI ( ▲ 0.07% ) Weekly -1.23%
$SPY ( ▲ 0.16% ) Weekly - 1.28%
$QQQ ( ▼ 0.1% ) Weekly -1.27%
$IWM ( ▲ 0.03% ) Weekly -0.78%

Those that have been reading theoptionscoach.net for a while know that I weld metal sculpture art for fun, sometimes I donate pieces to charity for fundraisers
This weekend I worked on a very special piece that a buddy wants as a gift for his wife to place outside in her garden
The piece isn’t anything dimensionally challenging, it should of been 123 / ABC / Eeezzzyyy / Peeezzzyyy / All a Breeezzyyy
But it wasn’t, not even close, and the more I fought it the harder I had to work
It was kind of 2 steps forward / 3 steps back, ~ all ~ afternoon ~ long ~

The markets had that feel last week
Then came Friday 😄 
$AMZN ( ▲ 1.19% ) Weekly -5.12%
$CASY ( ▼ 0.65% ) Weekly +0.75%
$CAT ( ▼ 1.22% ) Weekly +6.61%
$COST ( ▼ 0.63% ) Weekly +1.73%
$GE ( ▲ 3.7% ) Weekly -1.74%
$GOOG ( ▼ 1.05% ) Weekly -5.29%
$HD ( ▼ 2.05% ) Weekly +1.53%
$JPM ( ▲ 1.51% ) Weekly -6.16%
$WMT ( ▼ 3.76% ) Weekly +2.07%

Rotation, rotation, rotation.. It is here my trader friends
Take a look at those numbers
Then take a deep look at the Heat Maps

Last week I was scanning
These are the final names I came up with
$D ( ▼ 1.29% ) Weekly +6.71%
$COCO ( ▼ 0.11% ) Weekly -4.04%
$DELL ( ▼ 1.19% ) Weekly -2.94%
$ESLT ( ▲ 2.61% ) Weekly +1.72%
$KLAC ( ▲ 0.54% ) Weekly +1.47%
$CRWD ( ▼ 3.57% ) Weekly +8.63%

On a 3 year chart CRWD looks very attractive
There’s some notable Options activity for MAR 20, 2026
We’ll be going deeper into those soon
It reports earnings on MAR 3, 2026

Rotation didn’t just start, I’ve been talking about it the past 2 weeks
We need to go where the strength is

We lost a good one today my trader friends
Academy Award winner Robert Duvall passed away at the age of 95
I feel like we lost a “cool uncle” bet a few of you do too

He was a good man
Something that’s not mentioned about him was his love for dancing Argentinian Tango
On his property he would host weekly lunches for friends and anyone else that wanted to come to learn to tango dance. He had a barn built for it… My kind of dude….

The Options Coach

My all time favorite Robert Duvall scene


https://youtu.be/0FAdEzhorq4?si=zZuZFlh4dhNaFnzZ