To The Moon

$NVIDIA(NVDA)$ $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ $Exxon Mobil(XOM)$ 🧠 Why this week matters more than it looks I’m positioning into the week of 05Jan26 🇺🇸 with the understanding that this is not a quiet reset week. It’s the first structural inflection of the year. Liquidity is still recovering from the holiday hangover, but desks are reopening, participation is normalising, and flow signals are becoming materially more reliable. At the same time, realised volatility remains compressed across indices, with VIX sitting in the mid-14s, even as the calendar stacks CES narrative risk, multiple Fed speakers, and the December Jobs Report into the same trading window. That combination, low realised volatility, rebuilding liquidity, and dense catalysts, is rarely stable for long. This is the type of week where markets appear calm right up until they aren’t. 📉 Monday, volatility signals are already flashing I’m starting Monday with options markets flagging elevated volatility risk in $IREN and $GME, directly reflected in the volatility watch you provided. Short-dated options activity and rising open interest indicate tightening positioning rather than capitulation. That aligns with the short-interest table, where $IREN sits in the mid-to-high-teens % of float sold short, yet price has stabilised rather than cascading lower. That is not capitulation. That is pressure. At the same time, dispersion across RSI extremes is widening. Overbought names such as $FOLD, $DVAX, $SLS sit opposite deeply oversold names like $TTSH, $LW, $AMC, exactly as outlined in your Monday data. When RSI dispersion expands while indices compress near upper value, capital is rotating aggressively rather than exiting. Historically, that internal tension resolves through sharp, directional moves once a catalyst hits. 6:30 p.m. ET futures update: Index futures are modestly higher with Nasdaq outperforming, while gold is bid and crude remains under pressure. That cross-asset mix reinforces a positioning backdrop where capital continues to favour growth and duration-sensitive exposures, even as energy digests recent geopolitical headlines. It reads as confirmation of current positioning rather than resolution, which is consistent with compressed volatility and stacked catalysts into the rest of the week. 🧾 IPO mechanics, where supply and narrative quietly shift I’m closely watching analyst quiet-period expirations for $LMRI, $WLTH, $JMG, $CDNL. These events matter because they free up institutional coverage and reset valuation anchors that have been artificially constrained since listing. At the same time, lockup expirations in $DLXY and $MSGY introduce fresh supply into names that have not yet traded through a full liquidity cycle. This is where VWAP behaviour becomes decisive. Absorption versus rejection will reveal intent far more clearly than headlines, particularly as post-holiday liquidity deepens. 🧠 CES 2026, narrative control week for AI and industrial tech CES runs Jan 5–9, and the focus on AI, robotics, digital health, and mobility aligns exactly with where capital is already leaning. These are no longer future concepts. They are budget lines, procurement cycles, and infrastructure commitments. The keynote where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at 1:00 p.m. PT | 4:00 p.m. ET on Monday sits at the centre of this week’s narrative risk for AI and accelerated computing. Nvidia remains the core infrastructure layer of the AI capital stack. Any language around demand visibility, sovereign compute, robotics, or inference scaling feeds directly into multiples across semiconductors, data centres, and industrial automation. At this stage of the cycle, tone matters as much as numbers, particularly with implied volatility compressed and positioning sensitive to flow. Later that evening at 6:30 p.m. PT, Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su delivers her CES keynote. AMD does not need to dominate the narrative to move price. It needs to credibly frame roadmap, margins, and deployment within the same institutional language as Nvidia. Overnight futures reaction will be more informative than any next-day headline. Beyond the headliners, CES exposure spans Intel, Qualcomm, Ambarella, Himax, Hyundai, Meta, Caterpillar’s industrial technology presentation mid-week, and Lenovo’s keynote. CES is no longer a gadget showcase. It’s a capital allocation signal for the year ahead. 📊 Tuesday and Wednesday, macro and earnings begin to overlap Tuesday brings Costco monthly sales, a clean read on consumer resilience, followed by Richmond Fed President Barkin speaking early. JPMorgan’s CES fireside with Marvell adds another AI infrastructure datapoint, while Lenovo’s keynote extends the enterprise hardware narrative. Wednesday is where the stack thickens. Earnings arrive from $STZ, $JEF, $ACI, $CALM, alongside the Goldman Sachs Energy, CleanTech & Utilities Conference, featuring $PSX, $PLUG, $MTZ. At the same time, the Bank of America Defense and Commercial Aerospace Forum begins, highlighting the convergence of defence, space, and autonomy through names like $VOYG and $EVTL. ADP employment and JOLTS job openings layer in labour market signals as credit spreads remain tight and bond yields compressed. 🧪 Thursday, earnings and biotech volatility layer in Thursday adds earnings from $TLRY and $AYI, while the ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium begins. This introduces single-stock volatility potential in $ALPMF, $DRTS, $AMIX, $RNXT, $BFRG. Marks & Spencer’s Christmas trading statement provides a European consumer datapoint, with initial jobless claims adding another layer to labour trends. 📉 Friday, labour data is the fulcrum Friday’s December Jobs Report at 8:30 a.m. ET is the anchor. Consensus expectations sit around 55,000–60,000 non-farm payrolls, well below the six-month average, with unemployment near 4.6%. The macro table you shared makes the risk clear. Payrolls, unemployment, wages, participation, housing starts, building permits, and consumer sentiment all arrive together. This is not one data point. It’s a system check. When labour data clusters like this, rates move first and equities follow. I’m watching revisions and wage momentum more than the headline print. Yield compression into this release, combined with dense data, rarely resolves quietly. 🛢️ Energy, geopolitics are no longer background noise The Venezuela situation represents a structural supply event rather than a passing headline. The beneficiaries are scale operators with geopolitical reach. I’m focused on $XOM, $CVX, $BP, $VLO, $SHEL, $OXY, $COP. Energy charts are holding gains rather than fading them, which signals accumulation rather than short-term trading. 🔥 Short interest, the silent accelerant Your short-interest table is critical. Names like $APLD (over 30%), $LEU (25.6%), $OKLO (16.5%), $ASTS (16.8%), $RDDT (14.1%), and $QBTS (12.2%) are not breaking down. They’re coiling. When price stops falling while shorts remain crowded, forced buying becomes mechanical once momentum turns, particularly in low-IV environments where gamma and vanna flows amplify moves. 🎯 How I’m structuring exposure I’m favouring equity exposure where structure is clean and liquidity is deep, and options where implied volatility is underpricing event risk. I’m scaling rather than swinging, trimming into strength, and respecting invalidation without hesitation. If key index supports fail and don’t reclaim within 2 sessions, I step aside. Preservation always comes first. 🧠 The bigger picture This week connects control of compute, control of energy, and control of labour. AI infrastructure is becoming sovereign. Energy is becoming strategic again. Labour data is shaping policy faster than inflation prints. These forces are converging, and markets that treat them separately misallocate capital. 📋 Primary watch focus $NVDA $AMD $XOM $CVX $OXY $COP $IREN $APLD $OKLO $RDDT $ASTS 🔚 Final thought This is not a week to chase noise. It’s a week to respect structure, read intent, and let the market show its hand. 📢 Don’t miss out! Like, Repost and Follow me for exclusive setups, cutting-edge trends, and insights that move markets 🚀📈 I’m obsessed with hunting down the next big movers and sharing strategies that crush it. Let’s outsmart the market and stack those gains together! 🍀 Trade like a boss! Happy trading ahead, Cheers, BC 📈🚀🍀🍀🍀 @Tiger_comments @TigerPicks @TigerWire @TigerStars @TigerObserver @Daily_Discussion