Top 3 Stocks for February 2026 After a Brutal Exit

Options With Ryan (about 75K subscribers) kicked off the week with a simple point: Monday’s bounce looked like a clean continuation of Friday’s recovery, especially in tech. 

He’s staying fairly neutral on the month overall, but he’s still shopping in names that got hit hard and now offer better setups.

He also flagged what he thinks matters most this week: the U.S. unemployment report on Wednesday. In his view, a weaker-than-expected number could push rate-cut expectations forward, which tends to lift risk assets. 

Earnings are stacked too, he mentioned names like Robinhood, Shopify, Coinbase, and others, but he doesn’t see earnings as the main driver for the broad market right now.

After that, he gets into the real portfolio moves: one stock he cut loose, and three he’s focused on for February.

The Stock He Sold: HIMS

Ryan sold out of HIMS and took a big hit doing it. He closed the position around $17.83 and said it worked out to roughly a $12,000 loss, about a 58% drawdown.

His reason wasn’t emotional, it was rules-based. He said the chart no longer fits his “uptrend” requirement. In his eyes, the stock spent too long sliding, and when he zooms out, it’s basically flat over a long window. That breaks his own checklist.

He also doesn’t like the risk stacked around the company right now. He brought up legal and regulatory overhang (Novo lawsuit, plus FDA/DOJ action) and doesn’t think one earnings report fixes sentiment in this kind of market. Another red flag for him: insider selling. 

He pointed specifically to the CFO selling shares repeatedly after options get exercised, including near earnings. Ryan reads that as weak confidence from the person who knows the numbers best.

However, HIMS didn’t “fail” because it’s dead forever. It failed because it stopped fitting his rules, and he thinks the recovery could take months.

Stock #1 He’s Adding More Of: Palantir (PLTR)

This is where he rolled the capital. Ryan says he’d rather sit in something he has conviction in, even if it’s already a big position. 

He’s bullish on Palantir’s fundamentals, strong U.S. revenue growth, heavy free cash flow, a huge cash pile, and meaningful interest income just from that cash.

He also likes what he’s seeing on the chart. He talked about the RSI turning up and the MACD looking ready to flip. 

His view is simple: if the bounce holds, the stock has room to recover further in the next few months. He even threw out a near-term range idea around $175–$185 as a possible recovery zone.

On the options side, he described how he’d play it: cash-secured puts in the mid-$130s area (around the 25–30 delta range) for March expirations. The idea is straightforward, collect premium in a name he wouldn’t mind owning if it dips.

Stock #2 He’s Watching Closely: SoFi (SOFI)

Ryan frames SoFi as “beaten down” and says it got extremely oversold. He pointed out it tagged an RSI level around 20, which he said is rare for the stock.

What he likes is the mix of catalysts and positioning. He referenced CEO Anthony Noto talking up strong growth expectations (he cited 35% revenue growth for Q1 and hinted he expects even stronger quarters after that). 

He also mentioned the S&P 500 inclusion chatter as a potential spark, since additions can bring steady demand from index funds.

His options angle is similar to PLTR: he likes selling puts out about a month, around the $19–$20 strikes, because he sees it as a reasonable spot to get assigned if it pulls back. He’s already holding shares and collecting covered call premium as he waits.

Stock #3 (New Name): Corning (GLW)

This is the “new position incoming” part. Ryan said he hadn’t really paid attention to Corning for years because it used to feel like a boring cyclical glass company. 

His view changed after Corning’s role in fiber and connectivity became more obvious, and he highlighted a recent Meta-related narrative as part of that shift.

The pitch is basically: AI needs infrastructure, and infrastructure needs connectivity. Corning sits in that lane, and it isn’t a crowded retail trade.

One thing he did stress: he doesn’t want to chase it after a strong run. He called the stock overextended on RSI and stretched away from the Bollinger Bands, so he’s waiting for a red day. His preference is to sell puts on a pullback, not at the top of a hot move.

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However, Ryan’s February playbook isn’t “all-in bullish.” It’s more like: the market bounced, fear is cooling a bit, and this is a good time to rotate out of names with ugly baggage and into stocks that still have a clean story plus good option premiums.

He dumped HIMS because it stopped meeting his rules and picked up more PLTR because that’s where he wants his risk. SoFi stays on the buy list as a rebound candidate. Corning is the new idea, but he’s waiting for a better entry.

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