Weekly Recap MAR 15, 2026

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Hey traders, how’s your weekend going?
If your new here welcome
The markets on Friday, then the week
$DJI ( ▼ 0.26% ) Weekly -2.00%
$SPY ( ▼ 0.57% ) Weekly -1.50%
$QQQ ( ▼ 0.59% ) Weekly -1.01%
$IWM ( ▼ 0.33% ) Weekly -1.70%

Do you like learning new things? I do, I thrive on it
Two years ago my church offered classes that were geared towards business professionals in management roles. They said anyone could attend. I’m a “anyone” so I went 🙃 
What I enjoy about doing that kind of stuff is I walk in not knowing one single thing about the topic, I’m a fish out of water, so I can’t sit there and offer my 2 cents bc it’s not worth a penny there. I literally place myself in arenas where I’m not knowledgeable just so I can learn what I don’t know what it is that I don’t know
As I listened to the speaker one night he spoke about how his company did something that was thought of as crazy
They created systems that were intentionally designed to fail
Every single system they built then failed
They then took what they learned from those failures and implemented it in areas that were struggling
They were trying to “Learn what they didn’t know that they didn’t know”
Crazy part? That companies success then exploded to new heights

This current market is struggling, and we don’t know what we don’t know
I’ve always said that we can learn more from our losses than we can from our wins

This is trading / investing, we don’t want failure, not on any level
But losing trades do happen
What we can learn from them as we move forward is the best lesson of all
There’s this old traders saying:::::
“There are those that have been humbled by the markets, and there are those that are going to be humbled by the markets”
I’ve been humbled before, more than once

“Houston, we have a problem” This coming Friday is MAR 20, 2026, otherwise known as OPEX or Options Expiration. It’s also “Quadruple Witching”
That’s where 4 different types of entities all expire on the same day
Options, both Index and individual stocks are 2 of those 4

1st: The overall market is down 3 weeks in a row now
2nd: OPEX week evaporates the Theta ( time value ) out of Options
3rd: Quad Witching is not the time to expect a rise in stocks

What cyclically happens in the week of OPEX is Dealers ( Market Makers ) do their best to keep prices at bay.. And Quad Witching? After 3 weeks down? There’s going to be some money wiped off of the books this coming Friday
It would be welcomed, awesome, incredible and great if prices were to reverse course and head north this week. Stocks will have a very hard time in doing so, not impossible, just difficult

I hope I’m wrong
I hope I’m wrong
I hope that I am wrong in saying that stocks may not find any direction this coming week
After 3 weeks of selling, and now Quad Witching, stocks could go dormant here and possibly even drop some more until after Fridays close. Don’t be surprised if that happens
Again:::: I hope that I am wrong……….

$NVDA ( ▼ 1.58% ) has my attention right now. Not for a breakout or breakdown, but for further oscillation within its well established zone. We may capitalize on that this week in the way of collecting Premium. I’ve looked at it already and there’s some good opportunities there, we just need to wait to see it prices adjust in the morning

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$AMZN ( ▼ 0.89% ) Weekly -2.60%
$CASY ( ▼ 1.92% ) Weekly -0.56%
$CAT ( ▼ 0.96% ) Weekly +1.92% We love how it bounces off of its 20 Day EMA on the weekly
$COST ( ▲ 0.51% ) Weekly +1.03%
$GE ( ▼ 2.29% ) Weekly -7.11% We have a $295.00 “Watch” on it. bounces welcome
$GOOG ( ▼ 0.58% ) Weekly -1.32% Not sure what, something going on, hopefully to our favor
$HD ( ▲ 0.03% ) Weekly -4.64% Been saying for 3 weeks now the selling wasn’t done
$JPM ( ▲ 0.19% ) Weekly -2.09% There’s nothing on its chart that loves us right now
$WMT ( ▲ 0.95% ) Weekly +2.20% it wants $135.00 again

This morning it was 67 and sunny here
Now it’s 35, wind is shipping and snow flurries are flying
Sound like a good time to head to the gym 😁 

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