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AMC Entertainment enters mid-June with its short position continuing to retreat and options sentiment flipping to its most bullish extreme of the past year — a notable shift from a week ago when covering had stalled…
Intercontinental Exchange catches a modest bid this week, but the broader story hasn't changed: the stock remains nearly 30% below where the Street thinks it should trade, and short sellers show no sign of backing…
Wix.com is navigating one of its sharpest drawdowns in recent memory, with the stock off 40% in a month and analysts in near-universal retreat — yet short positioning tells a more nuanced story than the price action…
Applied Optoelectronics heads into the week after Q1 earnings with a sharp contradiction at its core: insiders sold heavily into strength, yet options traders just swung to their most bullish posture in months. The…
Murphy USA heads into the week of June 9 with a sharp and unusual tension: short sellers are rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months, yet the stock just posted its best weekly gain in recent memory. The…
Rexford Industrial Realty heads into the summer with a curious split: the stock just posted its best weekly gain in months, yet short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions at the fastest monthly pace in the…
Taylor Morrison Home Corporation is settling into a narrow trading range defined by a pending acquisition, a cooling short base, and a Street consensus that has run out of bullish arguments — all at once. The…
ABBV has given back a few dollars from last week's peak but remains up nearly 5% on the week at $225.42, and the most interesting development is not the price — it's a sharp divergence between options traders leaning…
TDIV, the First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund, posted its sharpest weekly decline in months — falling nearly 9.4% over the past five sessions to close at $116.28 — even as the short-selling and lending…
ServiceNow enters the week with a genuinely unusual tension: short interest has surged to nearly 31% of the free float in one month, yet the lending market shows no signs of stress, and the stock is already down 16% in…
Palo Alto Networks has handed back a chunk of its post-earnings rally, falling 12% over the past week to $260.52, even as the Street's freshly raised targets imply 20% or more of upside from here. The gap between where…
TG Therapeutics arrives at its June 11 earnings call having surged 18% on the week to $43.37 — yet the short position that bears rebuilt through late May is essentially unchanged, leaving a loaded confrontation between…
SMH heads into the June 10 week with shorts rebuilding over the past month and options traders maintaining a defensively skewed posture — even as the ETF bounced 4.3% over the past 30 days. The clearest tension in the…
ZG heads into the week with a notable analyst capitulation fresh on the tape and short interest that has eased from its June peak but remains elevated — a combination that keeps the stock's discount to consensus…
SPGP, the Invesco S&P 500 GARP ETF, is drifting slightly lower on the week — but the more interesting development is in the lending market, where borrow costs have more than tripled in a month while availability has…
Nebius Group enters the week having shed 15.5% in five sessions, yet its short base remains near historic highs and a cluster of C-suite sellers just locked in gains near the top. The stock's pullback is the sharpest…
Meta Platforms heads into the week of July 22 earnings with a stock that has slipped another 2.2% to $584.59, while options traders stubbornly refuse to hedge — a split that defines the setup going into Q2 results. The…
VOOG has had an unusual week — short interest nearly doubled in a single session while the ETF dropped almost 5%, an uncommon pairing for a passive large-cap growth vehicle. The borrowing story is the most interesting…
VOO ends the week at $677.70 with the options market in the middle of its most dramatic single-session reversal in a year — the very hedges that had been piling up for weeks evaporated overnight, just as the fund…
BWX Technologies enters the second week of June with an unusual options skew — one that stands out sharply against an otherwise calm short-selling picture. The clearest anomaly this week is in the options market. The…
