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LULU enters the July 4 holiday weekend with a peculiar split: short interest has surged to its highest level in months, yet the borrow market shows no sign of stress and options traders have stepped back from the…
FLSmidth & Co. heads into its August 19 earnings date on the back of a strong week, with the borrow market offering no structural resistance to the upside. The week's most interesting angle is the divergence between…
AXON has just printed one of its most violent weekly moves in recent memory, and the question now is whether the short-covering that accompanied the 34% surge has run its course — or whether there are more forced exits…
Stanley Black & Decker closed the week at $91.90 — essentially flat on the week while every correlated industrial peer posted meaningful losses, a divergence that makes the setup worth examining ahead of a July 29…
GPC is no longer trading as an auto-parts distributor — it's trading as a deal target, and the short book is adjusting accordingly. Short interest fell roughly 2.6% on July 2 alone, pulling the week's net change to…
AppLovin enters the holiday-shortened week having delivered one of the more violent price swings in software this year — up 18% on the week yet down 7% on Thursday alone — while the underlying positioning data tells a…
BX heads into its July 17 earnings report on the back of a strong week — up 7.5% to $122.78 — while options positioning quietly turns less cautious than it has been in months. The most revealing signal this week is in…
CrowdStrike heads into the July 4 holiday week with one of the most unusual options readings of the past year sitting alongside a short-selling picture that is conspicuously calm. The options market is the story right…
Iridium Communications enters the July 4 holiday weekend with one of the most striking weekly setups in the satellite communications space: a 28% price rally that has simultaneously triggered short covering, a Morgan…
MercadoLibre enters its July 31 earnings window off a strong week, up nearly 9% to $1,763, while short sellers have been cutting exposure at the fastest pace in months — creating an unusually clean setup heading into…
Monolithic Power Systems enters the week after the July 4th holiday carrying a bruising 10.4% loss, even as the positioning data tells a story of shorts retreating rather than pressing. The stock closed Thursday at…
Vishay Intertechnology enters the July 4 holiday week at the centre of one of the more dramatic repositioning stories in the electronic components space — short sellers have aggressively rebuilt positions into a 23%…
Take-Two Interactive enters the final stretch before its August 3 earnings report with the stock up 12% in a month, analysts lifting targets, and short sellers caught leaning the wrong way into a rally. The most…
NUE enters the July 27 earnings window after its sharpest weekly decline in months — down 11% to $220.75 — yet the Street has spent June aggressively raising targets, creating a notable gap between analyst optimism and…
McDonald's heads into Q3 with options traders their most bullish in a year and the stock up 6% on the week — a sharp divergence from an analyst community that has spent two months trimming targets. The options market…
Deere & Company enters the July 4 holiday week with a notable divergence: the stock slipped 1.5% on the week to $621.27, yet held up far better than most of its industrial peers while attracting a fresh bullish call…
LULU is trading at $118.43 after a 5.7% weekly rebound, but the short side has been quietly rebuilding throughout June — and the Street's post-earnings target cuts have yet to find a floor. The positioning picture has…
AXON just delivered one of its sharpest weekly moves of the year, up 34% to $597, and the short-side rebuild that had been quietly accumulating all month is now visibly unwinding. The story here is a clean…
Capricor Therapeutics enters the July 4 week having shed another 24% on the month to $23.21, with a fresh cluster of insider selling landing precisely as the bear thesis continues to play out. The insider activity is…
SOXS, the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X ETF, is at its most interesting inflection point in weeks — the fund jumped 17% on Wednesday and 24% on the week, yet the traders who borrow it to short are actually…
