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TNL Shorts Jump 38% in a Month as Options Sentiment Flips

Travel + Leisure Co. enters the back half of July with a striking divergence: short sellers have sharply rebuilt positions over the past month, yet options traders have just rotated to their most bullish stance in…

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Logitech Enters Earnings Week Outperforming Its Peer Group

Logitech heads into its July 28 earnings release with the stock quietly outperforming a rougher week for hardware peers — and with short sellers showing no particular conviction either way. The peer divergence is the…

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QTEC Options Turn Bullish as Shorts Halve

QTEC heads into late July with its most striking signal coming not from the lending market, but from options — where traders have sharply pivoted away from defensive positioning even as the fund pulls back on the…

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QQEW Options Traders Turn Bullish as Shorts Quietly Build

QQEW, the First Trust Nasdaq-100 Select Equal Weight ETF, enters the week with a striking disconnect: options flow has turned sharply bullish while short interest quietly ratchets higher from a very low base. The…

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USO: Short interest reverses as borrow market snaps tight

USO has risen 7.2% this week to $128.85 — and the short-covering story that defined the previous two weeks has abruptly reversed course, with shorts rebuilding and the borrow market tightening to near-emergency…

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Duke Energy Heads Into Q2 Print With Shorts Retreating

Duke Energy heads into its August 4 Q2 earnings with short sellers unwinding positions and the Street broadly constructive, but dividend growth concerns keeping a ceiling on enthusiasm. The most notable move in the…

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FDL Holds Steady as Borrow Costs Drift Higher

FDL, the First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund, is one of the quieter corners of the ETF market this week — yet beneath the calm price action, the lending market is telling a mildly interesting story. The…

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AMERISAFE Post-Print: Q2 Results Land, Peers Diverge

AMSF has reported Q2 results with the stock slipping 0.9% on Tuesday to $33.98, a muted reaction relative to the split performance seen across its insurance peer group. The peer picture is the most interesting contrast…

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AT&T Pops on Earnings Day as Options Bullishness Peaks

AT&T reported on July 22 with the stock up 4.6% on the week to $22.26 — and the options market, which had been leaning bullish ahead of the print, has now delivered its most call-heavy reading of the past year. The…

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Baidu Borrow Eases, But Options Traders Grow More Cautious

BIDU heads into its August 21 earnings date with borrow availability still historically tight, a fresh wave of analyst target cuts, and options positioning that has tilted more defensive than at any point in the past…

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IGPT Short Sellers Retreat as Borrow Loosens

IGPT, the Invesco AI and Next Gen Software ETF, has reversed course sharply since last week's note — the short pressure that was building through early July has unwound almost as fast as it arrived. The story in the…

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DRH Runs Ahead of Peers as Analysts Lift Targets Into Earnings

DiamondRock Hospitality heads into its July 30 earnings report with the stock at a 30-day high, three bellwether analysts raising targets in the past week, and options traders more bullish than at almost any point in…

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Samsung Bounces 6% With Earnings Two Days Away

Samsung Electronics arrives at Thursday's Q2 print having clawed back some of this week's losses, but the month-long damage is still the defining frame — and insiders have been buying into it. The most telling…

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BYD Shorts Retreat as the Stock Rallies Into August Earnings

BYD Company Limited heads into the final stretch before its August 28 results with a genuinely shifted setup: the short interest that had been building aggressively through mid-July has reversed sharply, while the…

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Dr. Reddy's Q1 Is Out — Now Comes the Reaction

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories reported Q1 results on July 22, and the stock's next move hinges less on what the numbers said and more on whether the cautious positioning that built ahead of the print gets unwound or…

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