Week of 1/5 - 1/9 earnings setups to watch and market news

Captain's Log, Star date 1/2/2026.

Welcome to the new year fellow degens, ahead of us lies a blank slate of a trading year and an opportunity to take advantage of all that 2026 has to offer us. Happy new years to all of you, may this year be a profitable year for all of us! This upcoming week traders, firms, hedge funds etc, all get back to the trading desk, which means we get back to normal after the holidays and new years. Our first week of earnings in the new year isn't all that great but there are always some opporutnities to be had. I will be personally watching and potentially trading APLD, HELE, AEHR, AIR.

News this week :

**Monday 1/5**: -ISM Manufacturing Prices & PMI (Dec)

**Tuesday 1/6**: -S&P Global Services PMI (Dec)

**Wednesday 1/7**: -ADP Nonfarm Employment Change (Dec) -ISM Non-Manufacturing Prices & PMI (Dec) -JOLTs Job Openings (Nov) -Crude Oil Inventories

**Thursday 1/8**: -Initial Jobless Claims

**Friday 1/9**: -Average Hourly Earnings (MoM) (Dec) -Nonfarm Payrolls (Dec) -Unemployment Rate (Dec)