RZLV: Bulls Buy Calls, Bears Add Shorts — Earnings in Nine Days

Rezolve AI is sending contradictory signals. Short sellers added aggressively this week. Options traders bought calls just as aggressively. July 30 earnings will resolve the standoff.

Short Sellers Return — Hard

SI hit 12.5% of free float on July 20. That's up 44% in one week. The position has rebuilt from a trough near 25.8 million shares in mid-July to 37.5 million today.

Availability tells the same story. It stood at 111% as recently as July 14 — roughly one share available for every one already borrowed. It has since collapsed to 25.4%. Only one share is now available for every four currently lent out. That's a fast tightening over just five sessions.

Cost to borrow has pulled back sharply from its June peak above 200% APR. It sits at 14.7% today. But availability at 25.4% puts a floor under where borrow costs can realistically go from here. The easy normalization trade is over.

The ORTEX short score is 75.1 — in the top quartile of ranked names for short-side pressure.

Options Tell the Opposite Story

The put/call ratio hit 0.24 on July 20. That's a 52-week low. It's 3.5 standard deviations below the 20-day mean of 0.283. The prior 20 sessions had been remarkably stable, with PCR between 0.266 and 0.295. Monday's print broke cleanly below that range.

Heavy call buying into an earnings date with tight borrow availability is an unusual combination. It means the options market is positioned bullishly even as the lending market is being claimed by shorts.

What the Holders Show

The CEO, Daniel Wagner, bought $3.25 million worth of stock in April at $4.00 per share. A director added roughly $266,000 in May at $2.78. Net insider buying over the past 90 days totals approximately $3.5 million. The stock now trades at $2.29 — below both purchase prices.

BlackRock added 2.04 million shares in the most recent filing period. UBS Asset Management added 1.66 million. State Street added roughly 995,000. Three institutional managers building positions at the same time insiders were buying provides a layer of corroboration for the bullish options flow.

Nine Days to Resolution

The earnings date is July 30. Prior prints have been volatile: a 12% single-day drop on April 8, a 5% gain on April 15, a flat result on April 24, and a 3% gain on June 26. The five-day moves after each print ranged from -3% to +10%.

With SI at 12.5% of float, availability at 25.4%, and a PCR at a 52-week low, the setup into earnings is a compressed spring. Which direction it releases depends on what Rezolve AI reports in nine days.

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• SI % of FF: 12.5% (up 44% week-on-week)
• Borrow availability: 25.4% (down from 111% on July 14)
• Cost to borrow: 14.7% APR
• PCR: 0.24 (−3.5σ vs. 20-day mean; 52-week low)
• Short score: 75.1
• Next earnings: July 30, 2026