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Why this matters: The lending market for FV — the First Trust Dorsey Wright Focus 5 ETF — has shifted dramatically in a single session. Cost to borrow jumped 329% in a week and availability collapsed to its tightest…
Four days ago, MFG availability briefly recovered to 22%. It has since collapsed back to just 7.3%. The borrow market is tightening again, and this time cost to borrow is moving with it. Cost to borrow hit 1.68% on…
Options positioning in MCO has turned sharply bullish. The put-call ratio has held near 0.64 for five consecutive sessions — the lowest in 52 weeks and nearly 2.7 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.79. Call…
CBRS has reached a new lending extreme. Every share in the borrow pool is now lent out — availability has dropped to 0%, the tightest reading since listing. Simultaneously, short interest jumped 24% in a single week to…
Three distinct signals aligned on CRWV on Monday. Short interest jumped, put buying spiked, and the stock fell 5.6%. The convergence tells a consistent story: bearish pressure is building on CoreWeave. SI hit 17.9% of…
Three distinct signals are firing on ACHV simultaneously. The borrow market is tightening fast, short interest is elevated and rising, and options traders are piling into calls at a historic rate. The standout signal…
The "stabilisation" story from last week is over. XLU shorts are back on the move — and the borrow market is responding fast. Short interest has climbed to 11.3% of the free float. That's a 10.4% weekly jump in shares…
The week's biggest macro catalyst arrives Tuesday. Micron Technology reports Q3 2026 earnings after the bell. Options traders are loading up ahead of results. The ORTEX stock score sits at 90.8 out of 100. Bears are…
Options activity is building ahead of a packed earnings week. Micron Technology, FedEx, and Carnival all report this week. That trio is pulling in notable positioning across the options market. Micron carries the most…
Today kicks off a packed earnings week. CCL Carnival Corporation reported Q2 2026 results this morning. FDX FedEx also drops Q4 figures today after the close. Tomorrow, Tuesday June 24, brings the week's most-watched…
Wall Street upgraded CDW today. The IT solutions firm moved to a consensus upgrade, with the average analyst target rising to $145.11 from $142.00. Short interest sits at 8.1% of free float — modest for a tech…
Applied Materials insiders filed to sell over $107 million in stock this month. CEO Gary Dickerson alone sold nearly $45 million across multiple transactions filed June 17. CTO Omkaram Nalamasu sold another $10 million…
Short sellers made bold new moves last week. SharonAI Holdings saw the most dramatic jump — short interest as a % of free float leapt from 12.7% to 54.6%, a gain of nearly 42 percentage points in just seven days. That…
This is the most important earnings week of June. MU reports Q3 results on Tuesday after the bell. The $1.28 trillion chip giant has just 3.3% of its float shorted. Analysts lifted the consensus target to $1,009 this…
A cluster of upcoming earnings is driving unusual options positioning across several names. Traders are pricing in big moves in both directions. ICLR stands out. Options are flashing a bullish signal ahead of its…
Three high-profile names report this week, with Micron Technology the standout for markets. Today (Monday, June 23) brings results from FDX and CCL. FedEx reports Q4 after the close, with investors watching freight…
MPLT heads into today's earnings release with the most bullish analyst consensus it has carried since going public. The analyst setup is unusually clean for a clinical-stage biotech. Every firm covering the stock…
Critical Metals Corp. arrives at its June 25 earnings release with bears still deeply entrenched — but the borrow market has shifted meaningfully since the last preview, and that shift deserves attention. The most…
SITE enters Wednesday's Q2 earnings report carrying one of its more charged short-positioning setups in recent memory, with bears meaningfully more committed than they were just weeks ago. The most striking feature of…
ICLR reports after the close today with one signal standing out above the rest: options positioning has flipped sharply bullish just before the print. The put/call ratio collapsed to 0.49 on Monday, almost 1.7 standard…
