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Friday, January 23, 2026

Winter Storm Fear Porn Drives Natural Gas Squeeze; Intel Earnings Land With A Thud

Never pass up a good opportunity to drive a short squeeze in natural gas during a crippling ice storm. Prepare to be locked down again: This time not by a lab created virus, but by yet another 100 year storm. Was winter storm "Fern" geoengineered? I don't have time to go down that rabbit hole right now, but it's food for thought, with all the government insider trading that's still going on. Beijing creates snow storms openly- big deal. US whistle-blowers get "conspiracy theorist" labels, and shadow-bans. Meanwhile, derivatives traders cash in on weather whiplash.  

Introduction to Weather Derivatives cmegroup.com [link] 

Figure that Fox Business  doubles as a weather fear-porn hybrid. Blatantly hyping  "power grid pressure", where there is none. Who's the tin foil wearing conspiracy clown now?! 

Winter Storm Fear Porn Drives Natural Gas 

Would You Would Prefer Some Boring Math? 
 
Enter Grok/AI stats: "Natgas futures up 75%+ in days (from ~$3 to highs near $5.66, settling ~$4.99–$5.00 after some profit-taking), biggest weekly gain since 2022. $UNG gapped to 2026 highs on monster volume."
I called the setup early on and have the tweets to prove it - review my X timeline @3xtraders  
Yesterday's Pullback Was Textbook:

@3xtraders eats trolls for breakfast: 


This one this morning calling my hype callout "fearporn"
Moving on to $INTC Intel: Earnings landed with a thud. Q4 revenue beat ($13.7B vs. $13.4B), but Q1 guidance bombed (revenue $11.7–$12.7B midpoint miss, EPS break-even vs. 5¢). Stock tanked 13% AH

 CNBC's Gene Munster called it: "$INTC at its most basic level, a meme stock." And that's exactly what it is—hyped on CHIPS Act and Stargate dreams, but lagging AI execution.
Don't worry, they must keep semis propped. I knew right where to look: $AMD rotation already kicking in pre-market. Prop markets much? 


Hold onto your wallets, because propping markets has become a national security issue, and AI bailouts are next. Taxpayer dollars to the rescue in the name of "winning the race." More in the upcoming blog series on "Semiconductors: The AI Elephant In The Room."

In the meantime, NYC's expected to remain paralyzed into Monday (up to 16 inches snow/ice mix, travel chaos, power outage risks per forecasts), and with Davos wrapping up today (half-day session, early flights), don't expect much selling pressure. Markets might feel like another 3-day weekend.
Take care out there—use the high-perf salt on your driveway... pro tip.No positions disclosed. Trade at your own risk.[End] 



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Thursday, January 22, 2026

Christmas May be in the Rearview but the Grinch is Still Working Overtime to Steal your Mag7 holdings, and your Christmas Bonus

Greenland turned out to be yet another distraction markets didn't need—and nobody was made more aware of this fact than the short-sellers who were seen panic-buying ahead of yesterday's close, and this is what happens when you have a mass distraction lame stream media who's more interested in going after the current president of the United States, than reporting facts. 

This weeks False Narrative in Review

  • Tuesday's rug pull had more to do with the collapse of the Japanese bond market than anything else, but it's easier to just point at Trump, as the scapegoat. 

$JGBG.L iShares Japan Govt. Bonds - flash crashes on yet another Monday (technically Tuesday) morning surprise. 

Japanese Bonds

  • The Trump administration telegraphed what they were doing, by sending Bessant out on the Sunday shows. No mention of impending military action.  
  • There was no talk of a military invasion, until they reported - after the fact - that Trump said he was "ruling out military action". Keep in mind these are the same idiots who ignored the fact that European nations, including Germany, had already sent troops to Greenland.  😏


Looks Like a Repeat of The Kamala Crash - minus the negative reporting 

If you recall the August 2024 crash, which sent the $VIX skyrocketing to 60 - in premarket - was downplayed by the msm, but it did not fly under Trump's radar. 


That panic open was also attributable to Japan panic. I've covered this topic several times over the past year, so it should've been clear to anyone who's been paying attention. Read about : Japan and its weaponized yen/ carry trade [link]

Reminder: The August 2024 crash coincided with a volmageddon event on the $VIX covered 2 blogs ago [link], so this looks like nothing but another failed attempt to crash the market on more Trump's watch - motive: globalist don't like him - and when pulling the rug on the $SVXY (Leveraged $VIX Bear) didn't have the desired effect they decided to pull the rug on the Japanese bond market. 

Regardless; everything from Home Builders, to Biotech rallied into yesterday's close, and that's because the bears were seeing panic buying again. lol But there's still one sector that continues to be sold; the only sector that matters - Mag7     

Christmas May be in the Rearview but the Grinch is Still Working Overtime to Steal your Mag7 holdings, and your Christmas Bonus 

Same shit I predicted back in Nov.: 

 "they're loading the Truck" - at a discount [Link] 





I expect to see more consolidation, as the hedgies continue to load up on the tech shares investors gave up on months ago. 

Once they're finished dicking around with small caps they'll be forced to drive the only stocks that matter.   

Stocks to watch: NVIDIA, $MSFT, $AAPL   Same stocks I called out on Jan. 9th [link] 

I took advantage of yesterday's short covering rally to make an exit from my favorite 401k fund. As Warren Buffett says "You'll never go broke taking a profit". But I do plan to find re-entry once we see the weak hands shaken out.

However: If $NVDA NVIDIA can gain some traction here; I may have to re-assess... 
Nvidia Chart


Pre-market movers include most the aforementioned heavy weights including my personal favorite, Oracle, so I may have already missed the boat - with the market on its way to $SPX 7000+? Better to be safe than sorry. 


Good luck trading into the latest FOMO rally, AA 

P.S. See yesterday's warning not to chase European stocks [link]. 
I think you really don't want to chase the socialists in Europe 
$EZU Eurozone ETF - One word: bubblicious 



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