Confluence — 968 total
The borrow market story for BLSH has shifted again — and the cost-to-borrow spike now overtakes availability as the headline signal. Since yesterday's note flagged near-total lending exhaustion, one key metric has…
Frontier Group Holdings was already the most-watched airline short this week. Now the borrow market is starting to reflect it. The cost to borrow ULCC jumped to 1.61% on July 1 — up 179% in a single week. That follows…
Short sellers are piling into GDXJ even as junior gold miners rally. The borrow market tells the story: availability has collapsed to 8.5%, and the cost to borrow has surged more than tenfold in a week. Availability…
Cost to borrow PLBL has exploded to 243.7% — up 158% in a single week and more than 300% over the past month. That makes Polibeli Group one of the most expensive stocks to short on the market right now. Availability…
A 51% stock rally in one week has not deterred short sellers in BOT. It has emboldened them. Short interest in Robostrategy, Inc. has risen 85% in a single week to roughly 1.53 million shares. Meanwhile, the cost to…
Options traders are calling a different tune from short sellers at FMC Corporation. The put/call ratio just hit its lowest reading in two years — even as short interest sits near a multi-year high. The PCR closed at…
Why this matters: Three distinct signals are aligning on ARM in the same direction. Short sellers are reducing exposure. Call buyers are dominant in the options market. Borrow costs are rising even as the lending pool…
The day after Sable Offshore Corp. crashed 56%, it bounced 43%. Now the options market is flashing its most bullish reading in months — even as the short position remains near record highs and the borrow pool has not…
Intercontinental Exchange is down 14% in a month to $126.73. Two major banks have slashed their price targets in the past two weeks. Yet options traders are the most bullish they've been all year. That contradiction is…
IONQ short sellers are retreating — but the lending market tells a more complicated story. SI fell sharply over the past month. Yet availability has collapsed, and the cost to borrow jumped 75% in a single week. Short…
Options traders are betting against the bears at HIG. The put-call ratio has dropped to 0.77 — nearly three standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.93. That's the most bullish options positioning in months, even…
Three signals converged on RXRX Tuesday. Availability has hit zero. Short interest sits at a multi-month high. And options traders are piling into calls, not puts. The signals point in different directions — and that…
LEVI reports Q2 2026 earnings on July 8. The short-covering that began last week has continued — but the borrow market is now sending a contradictory signal. Short interest has fallen another 20% this week to 6.9% of…
Three distinct signals have converged on ASX this week. Short interest is rising fast. The cost to borrow has nearly doubled. And options traders are hedging at their most aggressive pace in over a month. The clearest…
Viasat is up 40.6% over the past week. Short sellers are adding positions. Options traders are trimming downside hedges. All three signals are pointing in different directions — and that tension is worth watching. The…
Five executives sold shares on the same day. Options traders are buying puts at a 52-week high rate. Short sellers are adding positions into a 30% weekly rally. Definium Therapeutics is flashing a rare convergence of…
Every share in NVCT's lending pool is now deployed. Availability has collapsed to 0% — the tightest the borrow market has been in the stock's recorded history — as a 97% weekly rally drew a wave of new short positions…
Three data streams are moving at once for SAN. The options market is skewing bullish, cost to borrow has jumped sharply, and availability is widening — an unusual combination for Banco Santander's NYSE-listed ADRs. The…
HSAI is sending three conflicting signals at once. Short sellers are piling in. The borrow pool is nearly empty. And options traders just loaded up on puts — on the same day the stock surged 15.6%. Availability has…
Options traders are loading up on puts. Short sellers are adding positions at the fastest weekly pace in months. Yet the borrow market is saying the opposite — availability has loosened, not tightened. That…
