Weekly Recap MAR 8, 2026

Hey traders, how are you today?
If your new here welcome
The indexes this past week.. Ummmmm….
$DJI ( ▼ 0.95% ) Weekly -3.01%
$SPY ( ▼ 1.31% ) Weekly -1.98%
$QQQ ( ▼ 1.5% ) Weekly -1.24%
$IWM ( ▼ 2.29% ) Weekly -4.02% Ouch…

Did you get outside and walk in nature this weekend?
What about the gym? How much did you workout?
It’s not new, but what was old is now new “again”
There’s this “challenge” going around to see how long you can hang
Literally, that’s what it is, hanging your body weight from a bar for as long as you can
What’s “cray cray “ ( to me at least ) is the amount of “older folks” that can outdo people half their age. How? One of the reasons is weight, they don’t carry extra weight
When I first started this a few weeks ago I could only hang 2 or 3 seconds, I’m working up to hanging for 61 seconds for my 61st happy bday.. I’m at 27 seconds now 🙂 🙃 🙂 … And it’s 100% true when they say after you start dead hanging that your back can align back to normal. Doing this decompresses the joints. The first few times I did it I snapped, crackled and popped like I haven’t in decades in a good way

This pic isn’t AI… I screenshotted it off of a video, it was pretty cool stuff

Weight, the market is getting rid of all of the extra weight that is hanging around right now. It’s in a reset, just like how the dead hang can reset your back into its natural position.

Let’s take a look at how our friends did this week
$AMZN ( ▼ 2.62% ) Weekly +1.53%
$CASY ( ▼ 0.94% ) Weekly -3.06% Reports Monday after the bell but the earnings call isn’t until Tuesday before the bell
$CAT ( ▼ 3.57% ) Weekly -8.34% On the 1 year daily chart price is now sitting on the 50 Day SMA, any bounces could be strong
$COST ( ▲ 1.58% ) Weekly -1.26% MASSIVE swings in this one this week… Whipsaw City…
$GE ( ▼ 1.19% ) Weekly -5.60% Not scarrrrred, we like how it’s holding the 20 Day EMA on the Weekly chart, watching for fresh entry, Options prices have shed some “weight” and could be favorable if the market turns
$GOOG ( ▼ 0.87% ) Weekly -4.22%
$HD ( ▼ 1.04% ) Weekly -5.99% This one is sloppy all over the chart, it may not be done selling off
$JPM ( ▼ 1.39% ) Weekly -3.60% Has all kind of “oversold” signals firing… They could be fake outs, we won’t enter until we see some stability, Or possibly go Delta Neutral
$NVDA ( ▼ 3.01% ) Weekly -0.36% Oscillating still
$WMT ( ▲ 0.4% ) Weekly -3.24% Made a valiant attempt at recovery on Friday

Like last week I waited until now to see what the Futures would open up at before sending this out. Right now they’re down, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 800 points and oil is rising now above $100.00 a barrel

For short term and swing traders this is opportunity knocking
Options traders thrive on volatility, movement, we want movement, either direction

This market has a lot of extra weight it could still shed and hanging on to stocks for to long that are dropping has proven to be the death of many “Hold and Hope” portfolios. Don’t allow your trades to turn into investments

The nights still young, get outside, go for a walk, or if you go to the gym and dead hang, let theoptionscoach.net know how you did!!!

The Options Coach

Side Note::: Traders, I encourage all of you to take a hard look at all 3 Heat Maps

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