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Trader Note — 14992 total
CorMedix enters the final stretch before its November 11 earnings with a rare combination: short interest still running at a structurally elevated level, yet shorts themselves are quietly trimming, even as options…
VEON enters the final week of September carrying a sharp tension: the options market has swung to its most aggressively bullish posture of the past year, even as borrowing costs have surged almost 100x from where they…
General Motors is drifting lower against a backdrop of compressing multiples, a stock down 5% on the month, and an October 20 earnings date that is now less than four weeks away. The valuation story is the clearest…
SCHE enters the final week of September with an unusual combination: a strong one-week rally and options positioning that has swung to its most bullish extreme in months. The price story is straightforward. SCHE closed…
GNRC enters the final week of September with the Amazon deal euphoria fully digested — and the stock sitting at $206.17, nearly flat from last Friday's close of $207.44, while a renewed round of analyst target-raising…
FTNT has added another 1.1% this week to $174.26, pushing further above the average analyst price target and widening a valuation gap that the Street is showing little urgency to close. The price-versus-conviction…
Dollar General heads into the final stretch of September with one clear tension: options traders have turned notably less defensive even as the stock slips on the week, while short sellers continue their retreat. The…
GDXJ heads into the close of its best week in months with two stories running in parallel: options traders at their most bullish in nearly a year, and a borrow market that has quietly swung from extremely tight to…
VUG has had a quietly notable week — a 4.7% gain combined with an options market that has flipped dramatically more bullish than at any point in recent memory. The most striking signal this week is in options, not…
EQT Corporation heads into its October 20 earnings report trading below $51, with options positioning flashing the most defensive tilt in months even as the Street holds a firmly bullish line. The clearest signal this…
Cracker Barrel enters the autumn with a paradox at its core — the stock has shed 21% in a month yet shorts are still building, even as the Street quietly upgrades its view. The short interest story is the most striking…
Collegium Pharmaceutical enters the final stretch of Q3 with a fresh bull on the Street and short sellers steadily closing positions — yet the stock trades at $22.78, less than half where analysts think it…
CLDX faces an unusual split this week: the Street is rushing to raise price targets while the stock is falling hard, creating one of the sharpest bull-bear divergences in the biotech space right now. The analyst…
AAXJ has gained 5.6% in a week to $120.29, but options positioning tells a more cautious story beneath the rally. The most striking data point this week is not the price move — it is how options traders have responded…
PNQI, Invesco's NASDAQ Internet ETF, enters the final week of September with a striking split: short sellers are unwinding positions at pace, yet the cost of maintaining a borrow has more than doubled in a month. The…
Visa heads into the week of October earnings with the stock down 3.6% and options traders showing their most bullish lean of the past year — a rare disconnect worth watching. The clearest tension this week sits in the…
Philip Morris International heads into its October 21 earnings print with a striking shift in options sentiment — call buyers have taken control for the first time in months, even as the stock dips slightly on the…
GPK enters the final week of September nursing a 20% one-month loss, trading at $9.57 with the Street's mean target sitting at $12.40 — a gap of nearly 30% that makes this week's JPMorgan move the most important data…
The SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF has staged a sharp reversal since last week's note, with shorts adding positions into a rally that has left the borrow market still extremely tight — a setup that merits a close…
XOP has dropped sharply this week, and the divergence that defined the prior note — shorts building while the ETF climbed — has resolved, at least temporarily, in the bears' favour. The fund fell 9% over the week to…
