1/6/2026 - Daily Market Recap
Backside shorts and one choppy long
TLDR: Big recovery day for the swings and a mixed bag on day trades. Made money shorting exhaustion gaps on prior spec names as they lost momentum, but gave some back trying to force a backside short on SIDU. Good adjustments on risk, but timing still mattered.
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SIDU
This was my main focus again. It was an inside day, so I knew it might be low probability, but the risk was defined enough to take a shot.
I shorted SIDU on the push, risking yesterday’s lower high. The idea was simple: if it couldn’t reclaim that level, I wanted to lean short and see if it rolled back over. Early on, it didn’t really do much, and then intraday it started making higher lows and higher highs. That was my cue to respect the price action. I cut some of the position instead of stubbornly sitting through it.
Shortly after sizing down, it gave me better prices to lean into again, so I added back while keeping my overall risk the same. I didn’t increase risk just because I wanted to be right. Eventually though, it didn’t work. I got stopped out and moved on.
Lesson here was good risk control, but also a reminder that this ticker continues to show strength with the overall space sector rising all tides. The safer play was probably waiting for a daily bar break.
OKLO
OKLO was a short-term exhaustion gap. It opened extended after a strong recent move, slightly pushed through pre-market highs, and then failed to hold.
I shorted the turn after that failure, looking for a fade back toward prior support. I started taking covers as it found buyers near previous day highs. When it rejected VWAP, I added a little back and moved my stop down to just over breakeven, keeping the trade low stress.
From there, it lost momentum and I trailed out the rest. It ended up making a big move back up into the close. Keeping this on watch.
CRML
CRML traded very similarly to OKLO. It cleared pre-market highs, failed, and rolled back over.
I shorted the turn, covered some into previous day highs, and then added back when it rejected VWAP. Same idea as OKLO. Move the stop down, reduce risk, let it work or stop me out cheaply.
Eventually, it couldn’t keep going and I trailed out the rest. Solid trade. No stress, no forcing. Big move into the close setting up even better now.
NBIS
This one was tricky. NBIS announced that it will be among the first NVDA Cloud Partners to deploy the NVDA Rubin platform through its AI Cloud and Token Factory starting in H2 2026.
I got long on the break of 96, looking for continuation. It had a sharp move up to 100 and then failed back under 94, and I got stopped out. Right after that, it flushed to a new lod, based, reclaimed the lows, and started grinding higher.
That was frustrating, but also normal. I waited, and when it got back over the same morning pivot, I got long again. I was a little late on the re-entry, but I preferred being late and with more confirmation versus early and taking an unnecessary loss.
ONDS
Took partial profits into strength. ONDS has been up six green days in a row and is about 7x ATR from the 50-day MA. It just made sense to take some off.
Current swings I’m in: BE LUNR NBIS ONDS RDDT RKLB
Notable mentions:
SLS
This was a multi-day mover but not on radar until just before the open. However it never really gave me a setup I liked. The daily wasn’t clean and it didn’t have much of a blowoff. Great fade into deeper targets then sideways.
What I’m Taking Away
MDR shorts are still where I’m most comfortable right now, especially when names clear obvious levels and fail quickly. Risk management was solid today, particularly cutting size when trades started acting differently than expected.
On the long side, patience matters more than being early. NBIS eventually did what I wanted, just not on my first entry. Going forward, I want to be more willing to re-hit if the daily chart is still intact, especially on news-driven names.
Overall, decent execution and clear lessons to carry into tomorrow.
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