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Trader NoteDFEM

DFEM: A Quiet Week for an EM Core Fund

DFEM has had a calm week, with the ETF adding 1.7% to close at $41.00 — and the data behind the price tells a similarly undramatic story. Short interest is low and falling fast. At just 0.39% of the float, bears have…

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Trader NoteWEN

WEN: Borrow Costs Collapse as Shorts Keep Covering

WEN has quietly resolved one of the contradictions that defined the past two weeks — cost to borrow has crashed back to earth even as short covering continues — and the result is a stock that looks incrementally less…

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Trader NoteHIMS

HIMS Shorts Rebuild Slightly as Stock Slips Further

Hims & Hers Health enters the week with the stock down another 4% — extending a bruising month that has now erased nearly 14% — while short interest edges quietly higher and the analyst community tries to find a…

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Trader NotePDD

PDD Bears Retreat but Analysts Stay Cautious

PDD Holdings enters the week down 10% over the past month, trading at $82.21, with the Street well below the stock after a run of downgrades following May earnings — yet the lending market tells a story of bears…

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Trader NoteHTZ

HTZ: Stock Rallies 52% in a Month — Shorts Haven't Moved

Hertz enters the week carrying one of the most structurally complex setups in US equities: a 52% one-month price surge running directly into a short position that has barely budged, a lending market with zero room to…

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Trader NoteDNP

Dino Polska Shorts Press On as Borrow Tightens Further

Dino Polska is now five weeks into a borrow-market squeeze that has accelerated rather than stabilised — and the short score has hit a new high just as the stock posts its best monthly performance of the year. The…

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Trader NoteNVDA

NVDA Grinds Higher With November in Sight

NVIDIA enters the post-earnings drift phase with momentum intact, shorts sidelined, and the next catalyst still eleven weeks away. The stock added another 4.7% on the week and 9% over the past month, extending the…

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Trader NoteESEA

ESEA Lags Peers as Short Positions Quietly Rebuild

ESEA enters September in an uncomfortable spot: short interest has climbed 44% over the past month while every correlated peer in the container shipping space is posting solid weekly gains, leaving Euroseas as the…

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Trader NoteHYMC

HYMC shorts ease but borrow market stays charged

Hycroft Mining enters the first week of September with a notable contradiction at its core: short interest remains historically elevated yet has been unwinding meaningfully, while the stock itself slid nearly 5% on the…

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Trader NoteGOOGL

Alphabet Drifts Lower With October Earnings in Focus

GOOGL has extended its slide to $338.46, down another 2.3% on the week and 10.4% over the past month, as the market waits on a Q3 print due October 20 — and the positioning data offers little to explain or amplify the…

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Trader NoteNCH2

nucera Borrow Eases — But Bears Aren't Going Away

NCH2 closed Thursday at €7.96, up just over 1% on the week — a modest stabilisation that masks a borrow market still running at extreme stress, even as the most acute pressure begins, very slightly, to abate. The…

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Trader NoteABNBD

ABNB: Founders Hold Firm as Stock Digests Its August Surge

Airbnb heads into the second week of September cooling off from a remarkable earnings-driven rally, with the stock's ownership structure now the most telling story in the data. The founder angle is hard to ignore this…

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Trader NoteASTS

ASTS: Lending Pool Freezes Again as Shorts Hold Firm

AST SpaceMobile has swung back into its most familiar position — stock up on the week, borrow market nearly locked, and a 21% short float that shows no sign of retreating. The lending market re-froze faster than it…

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