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Three distinct pressure gauges on Rezolve AI have moved in the same direction over the past week. Every share in the lending pool is now lent out, put buyers are paying up, and the cost to borrow has more than doubled.
Availability on RZLV has dropped to 22.3%, meaning roughly one share remains available to borrow for every four already lent out. That is tight. The lending pool itself is now fully deployed: utilization reached 100% as of October 13, matching the 52-week high.
The cost of maintaining a short position has whipsawed higher. Cost to borrow hit 60% on October 8, pulled back to 37.4% by October 12, but that still represents a 105% rise over the prior week. To put the scale in context, the borrow was sitting at 12% in early September. Within six weeks shorts are paying three times as much to hold their positions.
Short interest itself stands at 14.5% of free float, up 5.8% over the past week and 9.6% over the past month. The ORTEX short score is 80.0, placing RZLV in the top 1% of bearish positioning across the universe.
The put/call ratio has been running above its historical norm every day since October 7. It sits at 0.315 as of October 13, a reading 2.2 standard deviations above the 20-day mean of 0.262. A week ago the z-score was 3.5. Options traders began building the put position before the borrow market reached its current extreme, and they have held it.
The PCR is approaching its 52-week high of 0.329. The 52-week low is 0.113, so the current reading sits near the upper end of the annual range.
The bearish picture in the lending and options markets sits alongside a register that has not been quiet. CEO Daniel Wagner holds a Schedule 13D position last disclosed at 13.8% of shares, down from 15.6% at the prior filing. He made open-market purchases of roughly $3.25 million in April at $4.00 per share. The stock closed at $1.83 on October 13, down 20% over the past month and 15% over the past week.
Alejandro Gonzalez added 7.25 million shares as of July, taking his reported stake to 7.5% of the class. These are event-driven disclosures around the 5% threshold; stakes are "as last disclosed" and may not reflect current holdings.
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