Confluence — 968 total
Why this matters: Three separate data streams are moving in the same direction on Public Service Enterprise Group. Options buyers are chasing calls at the fastest pace in weeks. Short sellers are quietly exiting. And…
SE has now been running two conflicting stories for three days. Shorts covered hard after the earnings beat. Analysts raised targets. Yet the options market keeps adding put protection — and that tension is worth…
Options traders and short sellers are sending the same message on INFQ this earnings day. Bears are retreating. Calls are piling up. The borrow market remains almost entirely seized. Short interest has fallen 10.5%…
Every share available to borrow in ALOY is already lent out. Now options traders are piling on. Availability for REalloys Inc. has collapsed to just 0.026% — effectively zero. Short interest has climbed 12.3% in a…
MercadoLibre reported Q2 results on August 5. The pre-earnings borrow spike has fully reversed. Bears have covered, but options traders haven't entirely relaxed. Borrowing costs hit roughly 1.0% ahead of the Q2 print —…
Why this matters: MTW has rallied 41% in one week and now trades at $20.16 — 55% above the analyst consensus price target of $13. The earnings beat triggered a sharp short retreat. Options traders remain conspicuously…
Short interest in PNQI has exploded over the past month. The Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF has seen borrowed shares rise from near-zero to 2% of float. Options traders aren't buying the bearish thesis. The numbers are…
Why this matters: Short sellers in Energy Transfer LP have cut positions sharply in the past week. The borrow market now signals near-zero demand to short the stock. That shift sits alongside a stock up 3% on the week…
MoonLake Immunotherapeutics reported earnings on August 10. Short sellers covered aggressively. The borrow market opened wide. Then options traders started buying puts at the fastest clip in three weeks. Three signals.…
Short sellers are piling into SECZ at the worst possible moment for borrowing. Securitize Corp. reports earnings tomorrow. The lending market is nearly locked up. Short interest jumped 20.7% in a single day on August…
Reinsurance Group of America just printed a sharp short-side capitulation. Short interest dropped 31% in a single week. Yet the options market is pushing back. RGA's short interest fell to 1.22% of free float as of…
A 15% earnings-day collapse on August 11 has triggered an unusual chain reaction for UPWK: short sellers are rushing to cover, options traders have abandoned their bearish positioning, and the borrow market is…
Short sellers are retreating from CI. Short interest has dropped 33% over the past month. That's the dominant story in this convergence — but it's playing out against a backdrop of analyst downgrades and elevated…
Silence Therapeutics beat earnings on August 10. The stock jumped 23% that day. Now the options market is repricing the trade. The put/call ratio hit 0.49 on August 11. That is 2.5 standard deviations above the 20-day…
Three data points are now pointing the same direction on Apollo Global Management. Short sellers are covering, borrowing costs have collapsed, and options traders are the most bullish they've been all year. Short…
Why this matters: Short sellers are abandoning MNDY positions at an extraordinary pace. SI dropped 32% in a single week to 9.1% of free float — the lowest level in months. Options traders are simultaneously rotating…
A contradictory set of lending signals is emerging on IYH, the iShares U.S. Healthcare ETF. Short positions unwound sharply on August 7. But the borrow market tells a different story. Short interest fell 18.5% in a…
GRPN fell 8.3% on its Q2 print. The stock is down 9.2% on the week. But the short base that defined the entire summer run has not moved. The structural problem for bears is identical to what it was before the earnings…
SOXL has staged a sharp reversal. The 3x semiconductor ETF is up 15% on the week. Yet options traders are the most bearish they have been all year. That tension is the story right now. A week ago, short interest sat…
Options positioning on NBIX has flipped sharply since earnings. The put-call ratio hit 1.00 on August 6 — the highest in three months and a z-score of 3.3 standard deviations above the 20-day mean of 0.85. That is a…
