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TSLA dominates options attention today. The stock reports Q3 2026 results this evening. Musk confirmed Tesla-SpaceX merger committees in pre-market, sending both names trending hard. Taiwan export orders surged 69%…
TSLA and META both report Q3 results today after the close. It is a rare double from two of the market's most-watched names. Tesla is the sharper focus. ORTEX alt data tracking German car registrations, a dataset that…
Taiwan's export orders totalled TWD 36,223 hundred million in September 2026. That is 69% above September 2025. The figure, drawn from Taiwan's official export-order register, is the headline read on global technology…
Options traders are taking their most bullish stance on JFrog in months. The DevOps software maker's put-call ratio hit 0.5294 on October 20, sitting 2.96 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.6624, the most…
Analysts are lifting targets across the energy sector. Two refining giants drew the most attention Wednesday. Valero Energy saw its consensus target price rise to $419.42, up from $412.21. That is a $7 jump in a single…
The most notable open-market purchase filed in September came from UBER. President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald bought 54,325 shares at $75.65 each. That amounts to roughly $4.1 million and was filed on September 8.…
Short sellers added to bets against CRWV at the fastest pace among large-cap US names last week. Short interest as a percentage of free float climbed 3.1 points to 22.2% between 12 and 19 October. The AI infrastructure…
Taiwan export orders surged 69% year-on-year in September 2026. That number helps explain one of the week's most striking signals: ETF investors are piling into Asia's tech heartland at a pace that stands out even…
Short sellers have rebuilt positions in RGC steadily over the past month. Estimated shares short stood at 770,946 on October 19, up 53% from a month ago, after a brief retreat to 576,000 shares in mid-October proved…
Why this matters: Three distinct signals aligned on BOK Financial Corporation in the 48 hours before its Q3 earnings: short positions built, the cost to borrow jumped 70% on the week, and options positioning flipped to…
Options traders moved sharply toward calls on Ameren Corporation on Tuesday, even as short interest sits at its highest level in at least a year. The put/call ratio fell to 0.27, the lowest in 52 weeks and two standard…
Tesla reports Q3 results today, and the macro backdrop is striking. German car registrations, an ORTEX alt-data series measured to lead Tesla revenue by 43 days, are running 269% above the same quarter last year across…
Earnings season is driving a sharp divide in options sentiment across US equities. ORTEX data shows stocks heading into results attracting opposite flows, with call-heavy positioning on industrial names and defensive…
Tesla reports today, and the numbers could be striking. German car registrations, a dataset measured to lead Tesla revenue by 43 days, are running 269% above the same quarter last year. That is the strongest leading…
NP reports today with short interest at its highest level in the past year, yet the stock actually gained more ground last week than most of its closest peers. Among the correlated names in the insurance broker space,…
NPB heads into its Q3 print today with the most striking signal sitting not in the options market or the borrow desk, but in the company's own filing cabinet. The dominant fact in the positioning picture is the CEO's…
STX has shed 21% over the past month, pulling back from levels where the Street had been racing to lift targets after a blowout July quarter. The stock closed Tuesday at $675.13, up 2.2% on the day but down nearly 10%…
DCOM heads into its October 23 Q3 print with short sellers sitting at a meaningful position, even as the stock surges to its highest level in months. Short interest is the clearest tension in the setup. Nearly 9.7% of…
Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. reports Q3 earnings today against a backdrop where insiders and options traders are pulling in different directions. The insider picture is the more striking of the two. Net selling of…
Bridgewater Bancshares reports Q3 2026 results today with a striking shift in how options traders are positioned: calls have abruptly overtaken puts. The put/call ratio collapsed to 0.50 over the past two sessions,…
