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Short sellers piled into SHFS this week. SHF Holdings saw its SI % of Free Float rocket from 101% to 857% in seven days. That is the sharpest single-week jump in the dataset. SCWorx was not far behind. Its SI % FF…
Arista Networks reports Q3 results on November 2 with the stock down 16% over the past month, Street targets coming in from post-earnings highs, and options traders increasingly cautious, yet short sellers largely…
DISN enters its November 11 print with earnings estimate revisions running near the top of the market, short positioning minimal, and the Street gradually lifting targets after a quarter that confirmed streaming has…
JL Mag Rare-Earth Co., Ltd. reports on October 28, three days away, and the setup is one of contradictions: short-term price recovery sitting on top of a weaker month, concentrated Chinese state-linked ownership, and a…
D-Wave Quantum heads into its November 5 earnings report carrying one of the heaviest short loads in the software universe, a borrow market that has been cycling in and out of near-full occupancy, and options traders…
AVPT has had a strong week, gaining 15.2% to close at $16.51, putting it within striking distance of the mean analyst price target heading into Q3 earnings on November 5. The most striking signal this week comes not…
Flywire enters its November 3 earnings call with a stock that has quietly recovered, up 13% over the past month to $19.40, but with a positioning setup that tells a more cautious story underneath the price action. The…
PagerDuty enters November with a notable split in sentiment: short sellers have been quietly covering, the stock has gained 20% in a month, yet options traders are building the most defensive posture of the past…
Credo Technology has now shed 23% over the past month, closing at $147.29 on Friday, and the week added a further 13.2% to that loss. The prior note flagged a stock already under pressure. Since then the decline has…
CRWD has done something notable this week: the stock that analysts kept bidding up while it fell has finally started moving in the direction they were pointing. The reversal is sharp. CRWD closed at $257.57 on…
CVE arrives at its October 29 Q3 results with the short interest story having shifted meaningfully since the last note, though the Athabasca Oil deal mechanics continue to set the broader context. Short interest has…
The heaviest earnings week of autumn is here. Microsoft and Amazon both report Thursday, October 29, alongside Intel. Options desks have been pricing elevated implied volatility across tech all week. Intel is up 136%…
Options desks are bracing for the busiest earnings week of Q3, with Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel all due to report. Implied volatility across tech is elevated as traders position for binary moves around each…
The heaviest US earnings week of the autumn arrives in the next five days. MSFT and AMZN both report Thursday, October 29, alongside INTC. Microsoft drops its fiscal Q1 results after the close. Amazon follows with its…
US plug-in vehicle registrations posted their worst July in four years in 2026. That is the headline from ORTEX's ingestion of US state EV fleet data, which recorded just 21,482 plug-in registrations for July. The…
Intuitive Surgical was the sharpest move in Friday's analyst activity. The robotic surgery giant was downgraded, with one buy rating shifting to a hold. The consensus target price slipped to $478.30 from $477.63. At a…
Bill Gates filed purchases of more than $187M in RSG shares across four days in late August. The trades were reported to regulators between August 24 and 28. Gates bought at prices around $219 to $222 per share, adding…
CoreWeave is the week's standout mover among large-cap shorts. Short interest as a percentage of free float hit 24.8%, up from 21.2% seven days ago, a gain of 3.6 percentage points. That is a sharp climb for a $25…
China topped the geography table this week, pulling in a net $14.6B over the past seven days. That is a strong imbalance reading of 77.5, well above the 65 threshold that signals clear buying pressure. The US came…
More than $5 trillion in combined market cap reports earnings this week. VZ kicked things off today. Tuesday brings the heaviest load: KO, UPS, SPGI, HCA, FCX, RCL and PYPL all print results. Options markets…
