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Halozyme Therapeutics enters the final stretch before its November 3 earnings with a notable reversal in the short-selling picture: after weeks of shorts quietly retreating, the position has rebuilt sharply this week,…
FLUT enters the week with short interest at its highest level in the observed period, an index rebalance threat that could force mechanical selling, and a stock that has fallen 22% over the past month to $78.06. Short…
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is caught between a rapidly growing short position and a Street consensus that still sees the stock nearly doubling from here, a gap that makes the next few weeks worth watching closely. Short…
XLU, the utilities sector ETF, enters mid-October with options traders continuing to unwind defensive positioning even as short interest edges modestly higher. The options normalisation that began last week has kept…
XLK has pulled back 2.8% on the week to $196.28, and the defensive positioning that defined last week's note has largely unwound, with both short sellers and options traders stepping back from their most aggressive…
XLI is continuing to unwind the extreme short positioning that defined September, with bears retreating for a second consecutive week and the borrow market staying comfortably open. Short interest has fallen again. The…
XLF, the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, enters mid-October with its most notable development being a reversal: the short pressure that dominated the past six weeks has begun to ease, and the borrow market has opened…
XLE has added 5.4% this week to close at $67.20, its strongest weekly gain in recent months, and the short sellers who built a heavy position through late September are visibly retreating. The positioning shift is the…
XLY, the Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR ETF, heads into mid-October with short interest still grinding higher and options traders nudging back toward the defensive tone they briefly abandoned last week. The…
XLP, the Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF, has reversed course sharply from the picture painted just a week ago: short interest is unwinding and borrow conditions are loosening, even as the fund itself pushes…
XLV has gained ground on the week, but short sellers are pulling back faster than options traders are willing to follow. Short interest in the healthcare ETF has fallen sharply. SI dropped 14% over the past week to…
XLB has reversed the covering trend noted last week, with short interest climbing back and the borrow market tightening again, a significant shift from the loosening that dominated the prior note. The previous article…
SPY enters the back half of October with short positions near their recent peak and a borrow market that has tightened dramatically in just two weeks, even as the ETF itself has barely moved. The short interest story…
IYE closed Tuesday at $70.82, up 5.5% on the week, with the most eye-catching signal coming not from its price action but from a sudden jump in put/call positioning that runs sharply against the bullish tape. The…
IWM has pulled back 1.6% on the week to $276.70, and the short interest that built aggressively through September has begun a modest retreat, but the bearish structural position in the Russell 2000 ETF remains one of…
SOXX dropped another 7.7% this week to $543.90, but for the first time in several weeks the short position is moving in the opposite direction to the bearish options signal. The clearest change from last week's note is…
The most interesting tension in EWW this week is the divergence between a declining short position and a rapidly tightening borrow market, a combination that tells two different stories about how traders are…
EWT enters the week on the back foot, down 3.5% over the past five days to $113.46, yet the short-selling pressure that had built through late September is unwinding in an orderly rather than disorderly fashion. The…
EWU, the iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF, enters mid-October with a notable divergence: the options market has pulled back sharply from extreme defensive positioning even as the fund recovered only modestly from a…
The story on DIA this week is a reversal of the dynamic flagged in the previous note: the borrow market has eased materially while short interest has jumped, and options positioning has settled into a holding pattern…
