After seven winning trades, The Art Of Crypto hit its first loss. With low news today, the channel warns against trading and outlines short setups for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, flagging $143 as a key level for Solana shorts.
Questions this video answers
7am–10am New York.
A candle close underneath $143 (USD).
Seven wins prior to the first loss.
January 16, 2026.
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What's good, guys? Welcome back to another video. We finally got our first loss of the year yesterday where prior to, you know, the news dropping, everything was kind of like aligning in the sense that, all right, you got that first cisd, you got that second cisd, and you got that third cisd. So basically, like all of the criteria in the checklist were basically met. And yeah, we went for a long. Ultimately that didn't play out, which is perfectly fine. This is not an example of like, oh, the system sucks or whatever. Like with seven wins, this is like the first loss that we've taken on in the last two weeks, basically. And also there was nothing there that would have screamed like, oh, yeah, today's not going to, you know, play out the way we wanted to. Because, yeah, you know, everything is met. You take a trade, sometimes it just doesn't end up playing out the way you want it to, which is perfectly fine. It's just a part of trading. But outside of that, let's try to redeem ourselves today. Although I. Well, although I say that today is probably going to end up being a no trade day, mainly due to the fact that we have absolutely zero news, as you can see right here. Well, not totally zero. We've got one on the GBP which we will take a look at. But just in terms of Bitcoin, like looking at how the Asia session and the London session have been playing out, it's doing absolutely nothing. And this system that we're trading usually does not do particularly well in conditions where price is doing nothing. Still, there is a possible trade today. Am I going to trade today? Most likely not. I'm just going to take it easy because, like, if the five minute chart wasn't enough to kind of tell you how the market's going to look like today, then, yeah, you know, don't know what to say. But for those of you that are looking to trade, let me break down the trade idea for today. So in terms of the daily chart, you are looking at a bearish daily bias. And so on the one hourly chart, you are also looking for a short. In terms of the one hourly time frame, you will have a favor gap over here where it is right above all of these relatively highs. So the setup for today is going to be super straightforward. In the event that you are looking to take a trade which is you sweep out all of these relatively equal highs, trick people into thinking that, oh my God, the strong resistance has been broken, oh, things are going to go higher and then you will go higher. Right into a fair bit gap, slash into an order block right there if you can see. And then like, yeah, you're just going to dump. And the timing that you're going to want to look for this today is going to be between the hours of 7am to 10am New York. Now the potential other thing that could happen is that price just straight up dumps by the time you watch this video, which is unlikely, I will admit, even the price ends up just dumping right here. I wouldn't necessarily just jump into a short primarily because of these relatively good highs. One thing, like one of the core tenets of the system that we're trading and one of the reasons why we can maintain such a high win rate is that not only are we getting into the trades what we're supposed to, but we're also like this system is designed to get us out of trades or rather prevent us from getting into trades that we aren't supposed to. And one of the core tenets of this system is that do not trade into relatively equal highs or lows. Meaning if we're taking a short, we want to trade into strong highs, not weak highs. Weak highs essentially just refers to a level that is likely to be swept. And so it makes absolutely no sense to for example, take a short place your stop above relativity equal highs because well, they're going to get swept out at some point and then the move is going to continue. So with that out of the way, that basically leaves just one potential scenario for today which is, you know, know, you sweep the highs, you come into here, you get a five minute CISD on, you know, during, sometime during the New York session. And that's going to be the setup, very straightforward. Now I did mention that we will take a look at GBP news and so that's what we're going to do. So GBP News so far you are coming into some sort of bearish resistance. You have a bearish daily bias. News is actually about to drop in like 15 minutes. So by the time you watch this video it's probably going to be too late. But still you're coming into some sort of a hourly fav gap. So from now until the next hour or so, if you see some sort of bearish CISD that's already good enough to get into the trade. But if not, what you're going to want to look for is, well, nothing actually, cuz News Window is now till the hour after, so potentially not going to be super relevant to all of you guys watching here today. But still we're going to take a look at Ethereum. Ethereum so far has a bearish daily bias and because of that you are going to be looking for shorts on Ethereum and shorts you are most likely about to get. Now we just assume that Ethereum is going to do the same thing as Bitcoin where this is a weak high right here because this is a high that formed without sweeping liquidity. You may just reach for these highs before you get that five minute CISD to the downside, in which case that's going to be the setup for today. But if by the time you watch this video and Ethereum does not sweep the highs and you just get a 1 Audi CIC towards the downside, it's not the absolute worst, it's just it looks a lot worse than bit on Bitcoin because Well you have 1, 2, 3, potentially 4 relative equal highs. Whereas on Ethereum it's just 1, potentially 2. But if I had to lean towards one direction would definitely be the one above here. And then we will take a look at Solana. Solana, we have a bearish daily bias, just like what we predicted yesterday. It was looking a little bit weak. Like if you guys remember from yesterday, you know, I just mentioned you would rather prioritize Bitcoin and Ethereum over Solana, but you know, they all ended up playing out the same way anyways in terms of Solana, like it's not looking more clear compared to Bitcoin. Ethereum over here you have a bearish order block which seems to be the only kind of like key level pot like possible on Solana. So okay, actually now that I'm looking at this, Solana might even be the clearest of the bunch because by the time you watch this video, as long as you get a candle close underneath this low here at $143 then you could potentially treat this new hourly order block as a point of resistance for you to get into the trade in between the hours of 7am to 10am New York. But again I will have to portion you. Today's the non news day. Today's Friday. Today is actually Solana. Solana looks decent. Like you could potentially get a, you know, Asia. Right now you're sweeping above the Asia highs. If you start breaking down then it would be a potential accumulation, manipulation, distribution type of move. So that will be the one that I focus on personally. But still no news day Friday. We've had a really solid week. We have a really solid couple of weeks actually. If you guys manage to make money from, you know, this great. Like, I'm gonna, you know, keep up the good work. One thing's for certain, though. I am going to be traveling next Tuesday, and there is a very high likelihood I am not going to be able to record a video next Tuesday. So that's just a quick heads up, but otherwise, have a great weekend and see you guys next week. Ciao, ciao.
