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Trader NoteFBAK

FBAK Slips 4.6% as Q4 Earnings Date Approaches

First National Bank Alaska enters the back half of September having shed 4.6% on the week, with the next earnings print now six weeks out and very little in the way of institutional or short-side pressure to explain…

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Trader NoteGRPN

Groupon Shorts Ease but the Bear Case Holds Firm

GRPN enters mid-September with a striking internal contradiction: short sellers are quietly retreating, yet the stock has lost 14% over the past month and the structural bear case remains intact. The most important…

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Trader NoteKO

Coca-Cola Drifts Higher With Q3 in Sight

KO heads into the final stretch before its October 20 Q3 earnings report with the stock quietly grinding higher, short sellers still in retreat, and institutional holders adding rather than trimming — a setup that…

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Trader NoteCLS

Clicks Insiders Buy the Dip — But the Stock Keeps Falling

Clicks Group heads into the autumn with a sharp price decline and a pattern of insider buying that has, so far, failed to arrest the slide. The stock's recent performance tells the most urgent part of the story. CLS…

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Trader NoteGME

GME: Cohen Buys $20M, Bears Exit — Stock Finds New Floor

GameStop enters the post-earnings period in genuinely unfamiliar territory: the short book has all but vanished, the CEO just made the largest open-market insider purchase in recent memory, and the stock is holding…

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Trader NoteBTRW

BTRW Results Day Looms as Sector Sell-Off Deepens

BTRW heads into its September 16 results with four straight weeks of losses behind it and every major UK housebuilder peer in retreat — the question is whether the print can shift the narrative or simply confirm what…

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Trader NotePRU

Perseus Mining: Valuation Cheap, Earnings Catalyst Ahead

PRU heads into the final weeks before its October 22 earnings date with a stock that has pulled back sharply from its August highs, a valuation running at a meaningful discount to analyst consensus, and institutional…

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Trader NoteQVCG

GoldenTree Goes Activist on QVCG as Silver Point Exits

QVCG is at the centre of a significant ownership reshuffle, with GoldenTree Asset Management pressing its activist case just as Silver Point Capital appears to be unwinding its stake — a divergence that tells sharply…

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Trader NoteOIO

OIO Group Bucks a Red Week While Shorts Cover Hard

OIO Group has had a striking week — the stock up 13% while short sellers retreated at pace and borrowing costs held near 60%, a combination that tells a pointed story about positioning in a tiny, illiquid name. The…

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Trader NoteDINO

DINO shorts rebuild as the Street scrambles to catch up

HF Sinclair enters the week with an unusual split: the stock has rallied 26% in a month, yet short sellers just added to positions at the fastest pace of the past 30 days — a tension that makes this one of the more…

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Trader NoteZETA

ZETA Shorts Rebuild as Peers Slide

Zeta Global Holdings heads into the back half of September with a split signal: short sellers quietly rebuilt positions this week even as the broader software sector took heavy damage around it. The short-interest…

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Trader NoteALKT

ALKT turns the corner as activists tighten their grip

Alkami Technology enters the week with a sharply different complexion than it wore through the summer — shorts are retreating, options traders are bullish, and two activists are building positions even as the stock…

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Trader NoteOLMA

Olema Shorts Stay Elevated as Pipeline Verdict Looms

OLMA heads into the autumn with one of the most heavily shorted profiles in clinical-stage biotech and a stock that has lost nearly 5% in a week, testing bulls whose conviction rests entirely on a single Phase 3…

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Trader NoteCRWD

CrowdStrike's Post-Earnings Drift Tests the Bull Case

CRWD enters the back half of September carrying the weight of a 7% slide over the past month — a sharp reversal after a blowout August earnings print that sent the stock 23% higher in a single day. The tension this…

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Trader NoteSIBN

SIBN Shorts Creep Higher as Analysts Hold Their Buy Flags

SI-BONE heads into the back half of September with short sellers quietly adding pressure on a stock that has lost ground for three consecutive months, even as every analyst with a published rating is telling clients to…

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Trader NoteSRRK

SRRK: Shorts Rebuilding, but Street Still Sees Upside

Scholar Rock heads into the back half of 2026 with an unusual tension: short interest is quietly climbing toward its highest level of the year, yet the Street remains uniformly bullish and an activist investor holds a…

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