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Tesla reports Q3 earnings today. Options traders have been active all week. The stock is down 16.9% year-to-date, and analysts see only 6.5% upside from current levels. That muted consensus is drawing two-sided flow…
Molina Healthcare options traders have turned sharply more constructive on the stock, with the put/call ratio collapsing to 0.80 on October 20, its lowest level in 52 weeks. That reading sits 3.3 standard deviations…
TSLA reports today, kicking off the busiest week of the auto earnings season. The $1.5 trillion EV maker carries just 2.6% short interest as a percentage of free float, suggesting bears are not heavily positioned into…
Wall Street turned cautious on several large-caps today. Morgan Stanley cut its target on SCHW from $141 to $132. The broker kept its Buy rating, but the trim signals unease after a period of strong share price…
Insider selling pressure has dominated filings over the past month, with tech names and Korean conglomerates leading the flow. Three stories stand out. CrowdStrike Holdings tops the US insider selling table. ORTEX data…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on CRWV this week. CoreWeave's short interest jumped 3.66 percentage points in seven days to 23.7% of free float. That is the biggest weekly rise among US stocks with a market cap…
RVI has dropped 13% over the past month to $24.07, with the stock shedding another 4.3% this week, and the most consistent feature of the tape right now is a 10% owner methodically selling into every session. Robinhood…
Ionic Digital has dropped 13% over the past month to $65.62, yet the story around the bitcoin miner is becoming structurally more interesting rather than less, with an activist now holding nearly 10% of the company and…
BETA Technologies closed at $18.15 on Tuesday, down 13% over the past month, yet its options market has just flashed the most defensive reading in months, arriving two weeks before a November 3 earnings event. The…
Wolfspeed enters earnings week with one of the most extreme short positioning profiles in the semiconductor sector: short interest has climbed to 104% of the free float, meaning borrowed shares outstanding exceed the…
ASST heads into the back half of October with its borrow market substantially looser than it was a month ago, even as the stock remains 10% below its one-month peak and analysts keep pushing their targets higher. The…
NP has reported quarterly results, and while short interest sits at its highest level in over a year, the position is modest compared to most of its closest correlated peers. Among the insurance broker names, BRO…
The Bitwise XRP ETF's now-familiar short-cycle pattern has reached another trough, with positioning lighter than at any point in the past month and the borrow market wide open. Short interest has continued its retreat…
SKYD fell 23% in the past week to $7.10, a move that dwarfs the pain felt across its closest correlated names: AMCX dropped 7.5%, PUBM fell 7.6%, and NMAX lost 16.6%, while MNTN and SBGI actually gained ground, up 6.9%…
Firefly Aerospace heads into its November 10 earnings report with short sellers adding exposure, retail attention spiking, and a peer group in freefall, a setup that puts the stock's recent 22% monthly decline in sharp…
CHA heads into the week with a fresh analyst upgrade, a doubling of short interest over the past month, and earnings on the horizon, three threads that don't yet point in the same direction. The most immediate…
KLAR heads into its November 18 earnings date with short sellers rebuilding positions, borrow availability drying up fast, and options traders turning more defensive than they have been in months. The clearest tension…
Short sellers added 24% to their position in CoreWeave over the past week, the most aggressive build since the stock's IPO cohort. ORTEX estimates 77.9 million shares short as of October 20, equal to 20.2% of the free…
NPB has just reported Q3 results with the stock trading about 6% below the prices its own CEO paid in late August and early September, a gap that makes the earnings reaction the most consequential data point for…
SNDK short sellers have been retreating from the stock at a steady pace, even as the share price has dropped nearly 8% over the past week to close at $1,365. Short interest now stands at 3.4% of the free float, its…
