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Trader NoteADM

ADM Drops 7% on Earnings Day as Options Skew Flips

Archer-Daniels-Midland posted its Q3 results on November 3 and the market's response wiped out the call-heavy optimism that had defined positioning right up to the report. The shift in options positioning is the…

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Trader NoteAON

AON Shorts Rebuild While Analysts Reverse Course

Aon plc is a stock where the short-seller and analyst communities have moved in opposite directions within the same week, creating a tension that sits at the core of this note. Short positions in AON have grown by 36%…

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Trader NoteAMGN

Goldman Raises Target to $536 as Amgen Posts Q3 Results

AMGN closed Tuesday at $461.26, down 0.9% on the day but up 3% on the week, and Goldman Sachs responded to Q3 results by lifting its price target to $536, the most aggressive call on the Street right now. Goldman's…

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Trader NoteAME

AMETEK bounces after Q3 print as analysts re-price the story

AME posted a 2.8% gain on November 3, the day Q3 results landed, pulling the stock to $248.58 and erasing most of the pre-earnings softness that had dragged it down nearly 4% over the prior month. Analyst reactions to…

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Trader NoteCOR

Cencora Clears Earnings with Shorts at a Year Low

COR reported on November 4 and immediately ran 4.7% on the week to $340.50, its strongest weekly move in months, while every short-selling signal in the data points the same direction: bears have been retreating for…

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Trader NoteAIG

AIG Posts Q3 Results as Options Optimism Fades

American International Group reported its Q3 earnings on November 4, closing at $80.53 after falling 2.3% on the day, a retreat that partially reversed a 7.5% gain built over the prior month as pre-earnings enthusiasm…

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Trader NoteMFA

MFA shorts rebuild as earnings loom

MFA Financial heads into Thursday's earnings print with short sellers adding positions at the fastest clip in months, while options traders have shifted notably more bullish, creating an unusual tension in the…

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Trader NoteAMZN

Amazon Claws Back Ground, But the Analyst Debate Is Live

AMZN has recovered 4% from its post-earnings low, but the gap between where the stock trades and where the Street thinks it belongs keeps the note interesting. The stock closed at $250.69 on Tuesday, up 2.1% on the day…

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Trader NoteADBE

Adobe Bulls Lean on AI, Bears Watch the Guidance Floor

Adobe enters December's earnings window with a familiar tension: AI metrics that look genuinely strong, and a stock that has fallen 29% in 2026 as the market struggles to reconcile them with flat full-year guidance and…

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Trader NoteAGCO

AGCO: Shorts Pare Back as Street Splits on the Recovery

AGCO has spent the past week in an odd position: the stock added 7.5% after last week's earnings beat, shorts have quietly started trimming, and the analyst community cannot agree on whether the cycle is turning. The…

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Trader NoteXTB

XTB founder's September sale looms over a falling stock

XTB heads into its November 20 earnings with the stock down nearly 7% on the week, a founder still cutting his stake, and borrow availability tightening sharply from extraordinarily loose levels. The dominant fact in…

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Trader NoteDAL

Delta shorts retreat as options traders turn bullish

Delta Air Lines heads into November with one of the cleaner setups in the airline sector: short sellers have cut positions sharply over the past month, options traders are leaning decidedly bullish, and the stock is…

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Trader NoteBHP

BHP Slips as Commodity Headwinds Bite

BHP enters the first week of November on the back foot, with the stock down 4.3% over the past week and 6.6% over the past month, as a mix of soft commodity signals and elevated analyst caution weighs on the world's…

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