📈 Market & Trading Strategy

  • $DHR position closed for nearly $9/share; stock now back on the go-to list 1.
  • $AVGO taken long at the open 2.
  • $RKT stop-loss hit, exiting for a +7% gain on remaining shares 3.
  • $MU strategy: scale stops higher as price advances, avoid micromanagement 4.
  • $EMN breaking out of a base post-earnings 5.
  • $QQQ stuck in a “no man’s land” chop zone 6.
  • Anticipate potential “shenanigans” at market close on the last trading day of January 7.
  • $NVDA primed for $200 and beyond, likely heading for new all-time highs 8, 9.
  • Skepticism on $TSLA’s rally: driven by rumor, vulnerable to a sharp correction if merger talks exclude Tesla 10.
  • $BMNR deeply underwater, -85% from ATH, or -65% from its second peak (excluding a parabolic spike in July 2025); not a good look 11.
  • Many high-beta names are down 30-50%+ from their ATHs, a trend often masked by major index performance. Some prior ATHs were momentum-driven, not fundamentally sound 12.

💡 Tech & AI Disruption

  • $U facing pressure, down over 22%, as $GOOGL’s Project Genie demos raise existential questions for traditional game engines. AI world models generating interactive worlds end-to-end could redefine the game engine’s role 13, 14.

🪙 Commodities & Crypto Dynamics

  • A major market event saw capital equivalent to twice the entire Bitcoin market vanish overnight 15.
  • Silver ($SLV) plunged ~21% in a single session, a “once-in-a-decade tail event.” This price action reflects thin liquidity and leverage forcing liquidations, not true price discovery. Typical silver moves: vertical up, elevator down 16.

🌍 Geopolitical Insights

  • Notable that Donald Trump, at 79, is involved in a broad range of 2026 geopolitical actions: suing the Fed Chair, engaging with Venezuela’s dictator, nearing a Greenland deal, tariffing and untariffing Europe, indirect conflict with Iran, addressing Minnesota issues, and expressing a desire to “own” Canada 17.