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The short rebuild that defined XLP through late October has quietly stalled, yet the borrow market and options positioning tell a more urgent story this week. Short interest has actually pulled back from its recent…
XLV has now spent two weeks unwinding the short positioning that peaked in early October, and the data this week suggests the retreat is becoming more orderly rather than reversing again. The covering trend that…
XLB is back in a familiar bind: short interest is holding at multi-month highs and the borrow market, which had just recovered, is tightening again. The borrow reversal is the most notable development since last week's…
The story heading into this week was about whether a loaded event calendar, midterms, Apple, AMD, and payrolls, would crystallise the bearish positioning that had built through October. With those catalysts now largely…
The IWM Russell 2000 ETF enters the first week of November with two signals pulling in opposite directions: short interest has stabilised after a sharp mid-October covering wave, while options positioning has jumped to…
TLT has reversed course from last week's covering rally, with short interest ticking back up and the fund slipping 0.6% on the week to $81.11. The previous note documented bears retreating sharply, with short interest…
The iShares Global Tech ETF has dropped 12% over the past month to $133.13, and the lending market tells an increasingly pointed story about where short-term sentiment sits. The most notable shift this week is in…
Emerging market bears have been rebuilding positions in EEM at a notable pace, while the lending market has tightened sharply from conditions that were unusually loose just weeks ago. Short interest in EEM has risen to…
IVV enters the first full week of November with its most striking signal in the options market, where call demand has surged to levels not seen in months even as the fund itself pulls back from its highs. The options…
DIA has slipped 1.2% on the week to $517.06, and the divergence between options caution and a still-loose lending market has evolved since last week's note: shorts have added back a little of what they'd returned,…
Kadant has just reported Q3 earnings, and the short-side picture has shifted modestly in the days around the event: bears who spent October covering are now adding back positions, though the move is too small to change…
Riot Platforms gained 3.4% over the past week, bucking a median decline of 1.8% across its closest crypto mining peers. MARA added less than 1%, while HUT, BTBT and BTDR fell between 5% and 8%. On the short interest…
SM Energy entered earnings week with short sellers holding a meaningful position, though the past few days have seen a modest pullback from the recent peak. Short interest came in at 12.6% of free float as of November…
Natural Resource Partners L.P. finds itself in an interesting spot this week: the unit price is up 7% over the past month while correlated coal and energy names are falling sharply, and the lending market has just…
GEF has reached its fiscal Q4 earnings release with short sellers largely holding their ground after a dramatic six-week build, and the question now shifts from how much bearish positioning was added to whether the…
CAMT heads into its November 10 earnings report carrying a fresh downgrade, a 32% one-month share price decline, and short interest running above 7% of free float. The most consequential move this week came from Morgan…
Marvell Technology has just delivered one of the sharper post-earnings collapses in the semiconductor sector this year, dropping 29.4% over the past week to close at $171.97, a move roughly four times steeper than the…
Helen of Troy heads into the week with short sellers quietly adding to positions, options traders tilting bullish, and a Street consensus that is neutral at best. Short interest has edged up for a third consecutive…
Amdocs heads into its November 11 earnings report with fresh analyst pressure landing on the same day as a stock already carrying meaningful short interest. The analyst moves this week tell the most urgent story.…
Zimmer Biomet has reversed the sharp pre-earnings weakness flagged in Sunday's note, gaining 1% on the week to $97.06 as the company reported Q3 results on November 4, but the recovery has come alongside a notable…
