PRIME PICK$
February 8, 2026 Volume 211 "Patriot Games Edition"
Super Bowl Sunday
It’s the last day of the NFL season tonight, but there are plenty of “games” still being played elsewhere. Last week the market got drilled for three days straight. Tech, crypto, everything took a hit. Then Friday hit and suddenly the market ripped back up, like someone flipped a switch and everything was magically better. It wasn’t. That was classic end-of-week short covering.
Here’s the deal. When traders pile into shorts during a crash they are betting the market keeps falling. Eventually they hit a point where they can’t handle the risk anymore and have to buy to get out. That buying spikes the market. Options make it worse because every contract in the money forces dealers to hedge, traders scramble, and liquidity disappears fast. It looks like a rally but it isn’t. It’s just mechanical. A liquidity grab. The next leg lower could be right around the corner. Just because the week ends or the Super Bowl starts doesn’t mean the macro problems went away.
There is no growth. The economy is held together by the crack-pipe dream of AI that is costing hundreds of thousands of people their careers while only doing one thing well. You will see better earnings soon because of Trump’s OBBBA provisions letting companies immediately write off infrastructure. That’s a temporary trick. The companies cash the benefit now but pay for it later. Corporate taxes are still a joke. AMZN paid 9 billion in taxes in 2024. Last year under Trump’s bullshit bill? Less than 2 billion. Why? Because they are part of the PEDO CLUB. You want to hit the head of the snake? Stop supporting these tech companies. They are the biggest enablers of Trump’s disgusting agenda.
Meanwhile the rest of the world is moving fast on the Epstein connections. Here, rich white men keep getting away with horrific crimes. But the walls are closing in. Ghislaine Maxwell testifies this week, Bondi is up next, and the Clintons are not far behind. Bessent is trying to manipulate the yen to prop up the dollar, but nothing is what it seems.
We do not let Friday’s rip fool us. Monday is not a race (Monday is my least favorite trading day of the week because everything is “full price”). Premiums are still elevated. Stop showing up guessing, overpaying for contracts, and getting stopped out in the first hour. Survival comes from preparation & patience. Here is what you should be doing: Go through the stack, pick 3-4 focus names for the day, map out the contracts you want, and write down the premium you are willing to pay. When the charts move I don’t have to stop and ask if the price is worth it. My exit plan, scaling, cutting, profit targets are all ready before the bell. You will never catch ALL the moves, so pick a few to focus on and maximize those trades instead of trying to trade them all.
We had one subscriber last week that waited ALL WEEK LONG and finally on Friday traded BA, from last Sunday. They hit for over 500% on the trade. Did you make 500% last week? What if you only took 1 trade the entire week? Would your win rate improve? Questions like these are things you should be asking yourself constantly. You should continuously challenge yourself to see more, do more, understand more, and this will all lead to trading becoming easier over time.
Every little thing you do to remove scrambling from trading makes the game easier. Prep your strikes, your quantities, your prices. Know your plan, and then your brain can focus where it counts.
Because knowing is half the battle. G.I. Joe, LFG!
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My Charts
Over Green line = Entry for Calls
Under Red line = Entry for Puts
Dash/Dot Blue line = Price Targets
Orange Dash/Dot line = POC (Point Of Control)
Purple line = Dark Pool
Blue Boxes = Demand Zones
Red Boxes = Supply Zones
EMA’s: 9 = orange | 20 = blue | 50 = pink
Price targets are not the same as option strikes.
Price targets are where I believe the chart can/will go.
The strikes I suggest are what I think provide the best risk/reward to make money.
How to read the contract ideas:
weekly contracts | PRIME STYLE weekly (abbreviated PS) | with time.
Sample format: 85c | PS 88c | 12/5 90c
**PRIME STYLE is simply further OTM strikes focused on asymmetric risk**
All suggested contracts are weekly expirations unless dated otherwise
RDDT
RDDT 0.00%↑ was one of the names that got obliterated last week. However, often times these large moves are more structural on the chart than anything. In this case, the drop has given us a retest of the weekly trendline below, and we will watch that to determine calls or puts here. If we hold the trendline and bounce, calls are the play. If we lose the trendline support we will fade towards the $135 area. If we open with VIX still elevated tomorrow these premiums will be expensive. As I said above, you don’t have to trade them all every day. Maybe you go PRIME STYLE, or put this on the back burner for later in the week. Or maybe you go 1 trade for the week and this is it. There are many ways to skin the cat so to speak, identify yours and stick the plan. Here’s mine.
