By Jim Cramer
Publication Date: 2026-02-20 20:50:00
Being dark, as they call it, isn’t all it is cracked up to be. I’m talking about how “Mad Money” has been off the air these last couple of weeks to make way for the Winter Olympics. On a regular Friday edition of the show, I would lay out my game plan for the coming week, so let’s do it here. “Mad Money” returns Monday, a light day on the calendar. But I am obviously sensitive to the tensions in the Middle East and what President Donald Trump might do with Iran. The standoff is entirely about regime change. The president seems to believe Iran has had a free ride to do whatever it wants with nuclear power, and that it’s time to teach the country a lesson that previous administrations have refused to do. That will make for a volatile situation that can’t be gamed, but we have raised some cash of late and would be thrilled to put it to work in some of the companies we like most. Alphabet is a position I would like to build up now that we have trimmed exposure to some stocks that I feel just didn’t meet our standards. Oil enthusiasts might want to take a look at Diamondback Energy . We haven’t emphasized the oils. I didn’t anticipate the sharp spike stemming from the U.S.-Iran conflict. Oil prices hovered near six-month highs on Friday, headed for their first weekly gain in three. Tuesday is big. We start with quarterly results from Home Depot , whose locations have become hotbeds for ICE arrests with endless round-ups of immigrants looking for work. Going after…
