January started out very sweetly with a full week of large gains, but then everything changed starting on Monday, January 12. I once again grew too cocky and arrogant and even pulled my stop in EVTV as it ran up. This is the cardinal sin, and the market gods will punish you mightily if you EVER do this.

I believed that I had such a great “read” on the price action in EVTV that I could get away with pulling my stop, but of course it went much higher and I ended up puking out the full (and oversized) position after hours at the top tick, losing significantly more money than I had planned.

This began a sort of spiral as I took outsized losses in ROLR, SPHL and VERO that same week. Needless to say, I lost money day trading this month, and I got lucky to more or less miss the terrible Chinese-driven squeezes at the end of the month in TCGL, ELPW, and PHOE. Pulling one’s stop in any of those would have led to ruin.

Take your time and #shtudy last month’s example outlier moves below. Click to enlarge any of the charts. And don’t forget to look at the outlier moves in October 2025 (23), November 2025 (5), and December 2025 (6).

January 12: EVTV (USA)