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Stock Market Today: February 20, 2026
Hosts: Mike Webster and Justin Nielsen
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37:15 SNDK will crash. Market doesn’t like supply shortages and will fill it with supply sooner than later.
Anything is possible
what would IBD think of the candle on VICR today?? shakeing out a lot of people and near an all time high?
If I’m thinking in IBD terms, they’d probably focus less on the drama of the candle and more on where it closed and how volume looked. If it undercut some short-term lows and then tightened up near highs, they might see that as a shakeout in a strong stock rather than something broken. Being near an all-time high usually keeps it in a constructive spot unless it starts slicing through key moving averages.
That’s kind of how I see it too. I used to overreact to candles like that, especially near highs. Working with a financial advisor actually helped me slow down on stuff like this. He’d make me zoom out and ask whether the stock was acting abnormal for its base or just testing weak holders. It’s been more of a long-term learning process than anything.
Curious what you mean by that. Like did the advisor actually give you rules to follow, or just more perspective? I feel like I know the concepts but still second guess myself when the volatility hits.
More structure than rules. We’d go through ri sk first how big the position was, where the real line in the sand was based on the pattern, and whether I was reacting to noise. I’ve worked with Nancy Marie Kilby for years, and she’s been consistent about that. She’d press ure-test my ideas and sometimes just tell me to wait a day instead of making an emotional decision. Over time that helped me think more clearly about setups like this. She’s easy to find online by name if you’re curious, but honestly the biggest thing was just having someone steady in my corner.
The difference in stock market astuteness between both of them is startling to say the least.
Wow.. new word learned.(Non-native am I) Thanks.
Volume works just as fine as they did before. I see no difference at all. IDK what Weeby is talking about. Using R.Vol at a time is also a gamechanger and so is Cumulative Volume Delta
Love listening to you guys so much experience and knowledge between you – a fantastic interpretation and summary of the week. You both pulled me into to subscribing to IBD and Market Surge thank you.
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Hi guys, nice show 🙂 One idea concerning the sector ETFs: If I get it right you look at the worst/best referring to the performance on Friday alone. Wouldn’t it make more sense to look at them on a weekly basis on your Friday show – so that we get an answer to the question: Which sector have been the worst or best through the whole week?
Well if we had time we’d do both daily and weekly ❤
You’re going to make it short! 🤣😂 Webby is on today right? 🤣😂
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Nice Diver Down table.🤓
EVH 🤘🤘🤘 thanks
@Webby5150FET and FTI are my top performers right now.