Premarket Calls and Puts, October 09, 2026

Provisional plan on last night’s closing chains. The 10:00 AM run confirms on live quotes. This run finished well past its 15 minute budget and pulled mid morning quotes instead of premarket closing marks. Flagged plainly below where it matters.

Today’s Catalysts

This morning’s market news digest came back mostly empty, so today’s raw list was built from the Breakout Screen’s Tier 1 technical setups instead: DELL, FTNT, VEEV, PLTR, ZBRA.

Call Candidates

None cleared every gate.

• DELL passed trend (price above a rising 50 day, RSI 59) and passed the earnings check (reports 11/24, clear of the Nov 20 expiry). It failed the breakeven gate at every strike tested. Breakeven sat above the ==$595.51== fifty two week high even at the $600 strike, 600C breakeven ==$637.78==, cost ==$37.78 per share== ($3,778 per contract). Implied volatility ran ==56 to 57%== across the chain, rich versus a 40% target.

Put Candidates

None. No bearish setup surfaced in today’s thin catalyst list.

Rejected, and why

• FTNT, printed a fresh 52 week high today (==$193.18==).
• ZBRA, 52 week high set 3 sessions ago (==$390.80== on 10/6).
• VEEV, earnings 11/19 falls one day inside the Nov 20 expiry window.
• PLTR, earnings 11/2 falls well inside the Nov 20 expiry window.
• DELL, see above.

The tape is set up as a continuation of the recent AI and semicap rally, with DELL, FTNT, VEEV, PLTR and ZBRA all extended well above rising 50 day averages. Nothing here is a fresh entry today. That changes if DELL’s IV compresses back toward the 40% zone after its late November print clears, or if a name pulls back to its rising 50 day without breaking trend.