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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's Thai-listed depositary receipts head into next week's results with ownership firmly concentrated in Beijing and the stock trading just marginally softer on the week. The…
MRNA has climbed 57% in a month and now faces two binary events in quick succession: Q3 earnings on November 5 and a likely MSCI index inclusion decision on November 11, creating a setup where passive flows and short…
Options traders at ADM are leaning bullish even as the stock slides. The put-to-call ratio fell to 0.39 on October 20, sitting 1.81 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.50. That call-heavy positioning comes…
Three distinct signals are converging on PR this week. Options traders have turned notably more defensive, retail attention has spiked to an unusual high, and short interest has held near its recent doubled level.…
Options traders have not been this defensive on TDG in a year. The put-call ratio hit 1.06 on October 20, the highest reading in 52 weeks and 3.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.69. Among its closest…
Retail attention on Quest Diagnostics has hit 3.2 standard deviations above its own 90-day average, per Wikipedia views and ORTEX stock page traffic, with Q3 results due Wednesday morning. That reading lands on top of…
Equifax has gained 18.4% over the past week, closing Monday at $176.54 after reporting Q3 results on October 20. The pre-earnings short squeeze and options pivot that ORTEX flagged before the print have now resolved.…
Southwest Airlines is releasing Q3 results today, and three distinct signals have converged on the stock at once: short sellers are leaving, retail attention is spiking, and options traders are still buying…
TSLA is the story of the day. The EV maker reports Q3 2026 results tonight. Options markets are active, and the backdrop from real-economy data is striking. German car registrations, which ORTEX data shows lead Tesla…
Dell Technologies has dropped 19% in a week, yet the short position against it keeps shrinking. Public attention, meanwhile, is running almost three standard deviations above its 90-day norm. Short interest stood at…
Post-earnings analyst revisions landed hard on Wednesday. Four firms lowered their price targets on GE Aerospace the same morning, all while keeping their ratings intact. JP Morgan's Seth Seifman cut to $375 from $400.…
Options traders have loaded up on calls in PG&E Corporation, pushing the put-call ratio to 0.11, the lowest level in 52 weeks and nearly two standard deviations below its 20-day average. Retail attention is running at…
TSLA reports Q3 2026 results today, and options markets are crackling. ORTEX data shows the stock is down 16.9% year-to-date. Days to cover stand at just 0.36, meaning short sellers are not the dominant force heading…
TSLA kicks off a packed earnings week today. The EV maker reports Q3 2026 results on Wednesday. German car registration data, a leading indicator for Tesla revenue, is running 269% above the same quarter last year.…
Taiwan's export order figures, published by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, delivered the sharpest year-on-year reading in the block. Total orders reached TWD 36,224 hundred million in September, up 69% on September…
Analyst desks were broadly active on Wednesday, with upgrades and rising price targets spread across financial services, defence, and healthcare. Northrop Grumman picked up a formal upgrade, pushing consensus to a more…
Activist fund Corvex Management filed disclosures showing it sold $202.8 million worth of ILMN shares across 40 transactions, with trades running from early September and reported to regulators on 4 September 2026. The…
Short sellers are pressing harder on a handful of US names. The data shows two clear stories: extreme pressure on a struggling chipmaker and fresh bets against an AI cloud darling. WOLF (Wolfspeed) sits at 85.6% SI %…
China and Taiwan dominated the week's ETF flows, pulling in the largest hauls of any geography as money rotated hard into Asia while Europe bled cash and sector bets turned sharply in favour of tech. China topped…
MBLY short interest has reached 21% of free float, short sellers notched a 29% target-price cut from RBC this morning, and the ORTEX short score jumped overnight from 64.3 to 73.5. The stock closes at $7.30, still 46%…
