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The Futures for Stock Indices aren't happy at the moment. We will have to see what the morning brings.

Indices Futures Prices - Barchart.com


While Gold & Silver are quite happy.

Metals Futures Prices - Barchart.com

 

Well, I'm in NVDA at 181. Y'all like it in here?

Tariffs and H200's....

 

One of my core holdings.

 

Remember Meta's creepy Horizon virtual office? It's shutting down

Wait, no more virtual sitting in a virtual chair, chatting with virtual people with a VR headset on, for hours? Bummer.

https://mashable.com/article/meta-horizon-workrooms-discontinued

 

With the kerfuffle over Greenland/ Denmark and World War on the horizon is it time to sink some money in tulip futures?

 

Reminds me of this:

Streamer is virtually violated by a weird guy and his goon.

 

I bet the market closes up despite the hype of an impending trade war apocalypse.

 

MSFT @ 412.75

 

Back up the truck for MSFT down here. 410ish

 

Yall alive?

 

to my amateurish eyes, not yet;


it's recent 160-point decline, ~25%, has closed the 391 - 410 gap, trying to find support there.
don't think it has hit the floor yet. next earnings will be ~~~~ 4-29-'26

 

never knew what PLTR did.

But it has come to my attention that PLTR's recent price decline, since Aug 2025, correlates to
the lessening of ICE presence / deployment of national guards not requested by the states

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and the first triple-witching for 2026 will be on the 3rd Friday in March

 

AAPL is trading ~~~ 272.7

my analysis says that---going forward to the first triple-witching for 2026---it will be traded below 260

using 3-20 expiration, first triple witching, sold this bearish CALL spread on AAPL. a 20-point spread.

• buy to open the 287.5 strike CALL contract, sell to open the 267.5 strike CALL contract
• collect a premium in advance of $9.05
  • defining my max risk of $10.95

risking $10.95 to win $9.05

on close of business, 3-20-26, should AAPL close below $267.5, i get to keep the $9.05 premium

 

used the $9.05 premium collected to defray the cost of this PUT on AAPL

• buy to open the $170 strike PUT---using May expiration---costing $10.88
  • net cost of $1.83 (10.88 - 9.05)

 

You rent out your upstairs room for quick cash (March call spread)
and use that money to buy cheap hurricane insurance on your house (May $170 put).

If no hurricane comes → you just paid $1.83 for peace of mind.
If a massive storm hits → that insurance could pay off big.

 

It’s the 270 strike PUT, not the 170 strike PUT, a typo error

from a recent high of > 280, trading below 260 would be like a hurricane