Trading Opportunities You May Have Missed This Week: Jan 12-16



Major assets appear to be taking a breather today (Friday, Jan 16), after what has been an eventful start to the new year.

This perhaps presents an opportune time to recap the trading and investing opportunities you may have missed so far in 2026.





1) As expected



This week (Jan 12-16), arguably the main scheduled macro event was the release of the latest US inflation data (as widely measured by the consumer price index - CPI).

In our CPI preview article published on Tue, Jan 13th, we cited a potential market scenario of lower-than-expected US inflation likely resulting in new record highs for Gold, S&P 500, and Dow Jones indices. 

And markets duly fulfilled that forecasted scenario! 

This week, we saw new all-time highs for those 3 assets immediately following the CPI release.

Even cryptos drew confidence (Bitcoin hit a 2-month high just shy of $98,000) from the latest signs of steadying US inflation figures, which in turn may allow the Federal Reserve a.k.a. the Fed - the US central bank - to proceed with interest rate cuts in 2026.

NOTE: US stocks, precious metals, and cryptos generally go up at the thought of US interest rates going down.





2) Overshoots



• Monero blows past upside target

In our "3 Assets to Watch" weekly preview article, we posed this question, "Monero to print fresh ATHs above $600?" 

Indeed, Monero exceeded market expectations to the upside!

XMRUSDT even briefly breached $800, marking a run-up of over 40% since the article was published! 

Did you miss out?







• JPM sinks past downside target

In that same article published Monday, Jan 12th, we outlined the $319 price target to the downside in the lead up to JPMorgan's earnings announcements (before US markets opened on Tuesday, Jan 13).

Instead, JPMorgan stocks sank to as low as $306.09 this week!

JPM tumbled after its earnings disappointed markets, while President Trump's call for a 10% cap on credit card fees shocked the financial services sector and further weakened banking stocks this week.







• FHE almost triples this week!

Then yesterday (Thursday, Jan 15), we cited 0.0835 as potential resistance for FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption). 

This token paid no heed to such technical resistance.

Instead, FHE went on to surge another 66.5%, before paring some of its gains.









3) Still in play ...

Finally, since our Week Ahead preview article, AUDUSD+ still remains rangebound, trapped between the upside target (0.6776) and downside target (0.6634).

The Australian dollar remains by far the best-performing G10 currency against the US dollar so far in 2026!

It remains to be seen whether AUD can build on its gains so far in 2026 and hit a new 15-month high, or relinquish them and join its G10 peers such as the EUR, GBP, JPY etc.





ICYMI: Going further back (Jan 5-9)

• Brent Crude Oil (Bybit: UKOUSD) surged to a 3-month high, not anything due to the OPEC+ meeting on Jan 4th, but because of the Trump-triggered geopolitical shockers involving Venezuela and Iran.

• On Jan 2nd, we pondered if the Nasdaq 100 index (Bybit: NAS100) can narrow the 3% gap from its all-time high. That gap is now 2.3%.

• On Jan 2nd, we asked if Bitcoin (Bybit: BTC/UDST) can go back above $90k? It sure did, even getting to within a whisker of $98k on Jan 14th.