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Tesla ends the week below its analyst mean price target, down 6.4% to $396.68, with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions and options traders now their most bullish in months. The shift in options positioning is…
Generac Holdings enters the week down 8.3% to $260.99, caught between a sharply improving short position and a CEO who has been selling stock every month this year. The most striking feature of the current setup is how…
GDXJ just had one of its sharpest weekly drops of the year, falling 14% to $99.54, yet the lending market tells a story of sustained, deeply-rooted bearish conviction that predates this week's selloff. The borrow…
IWY, the iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF, heads into mid-June with options traders more defensive than they've been in weeks — even as the underlying borrow market sends a sharply different signal. The options story…
OMER heads into its June 18 earnings report with the lending pool completely dry and short sellers holding near a quarter of the float. The borrow picture is the sharpest signal this week. Availability has collapsed to…
The short rebuild in VUG that was flagged two days ago has continued — and the data now looks more stretched than at any point this year. Short interest climbed again to 3.98 million shares as of June 9, up another 8%…
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store just printed its Q3 results and bounced hard — now the question is whether shorts capitulate or reload. The stock gained 6.1% on June 9 and is up 6.2% on the week to $36.30, extending a…
Cleveland-Cliffs enters its July 20 Q2 earnings window with a notable split: the analyst community has turned measurably more constructive in recent days, even as short sellers quietly rebuild positions and the stock…
Celldex Therapeutics heads into its June 25 earnings with short sellers rebuilding positions, UBS lifting its target on the day, and the stock still down sharply from its month-ago levels. The most telling tension this…
DHT Holdings enters the second half of June with a striking divergence: short sellers added aggressively in a single session even as the stock held steady and the lending market remains the loosest it has been all…
GLD heads into the back half of June with a notable tension: short interest has been creeping higher for weeks, yet the ETF's borrow market just loosened sharply — a split signal that makes the current pullback harder…
TAN enters the second week of June in a sharp contradiction — short sellers are retreating fast, yet options traders are more cautious than they have been all year. The price action tells the story first. The Invesco…
Visa heads into the week of June 10 with the short rebuild that dominated early June now sharply reversing — the clearest data shift from where things stood just days ago. The previous note flagged a quiet but…
Philip Morris International has recovered sharply since last week's note, closing at $178.49 — up 2.8% on the week and now within striking distance of the consensus target, with short sellers quietly trimming exposure…
XOP, the S&P Oil & Gas E&P ETF, enters the week with short sellers adding exposure even as the fund slides — a setup where bearish conviction and price weakness are reinforcing each other. The most striking feature of…
The most striking development on DGT this week is not where the ETF is trading — down 2.1% to $184.43 — but how sharply options positioning has rotated toward protection over the past month. The put/call ratio has…
QQQ fell 5% this week and closed Tuesday at $707.83 — and rather than taking profits, short sellers are adding to their positions into the weakness. The headline shift since Sunday's report is in the lending market.…
Harrow, Inc. heads into the back half of 2026 with a striking split in conviction — the co-founders bought the stock aggressively after a steep earnings selloff, while short sellers have quietly added to already…
Teradata delivered one of the more conflicted setups in the software space this week: short sellers covered aggressively while every senior insider reaching for the sell button. The dominant move in the data this week…
NLR, the VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF, is having a rough week — down 13.5% in five sessions to $119.55, extending a one-month loss of 15%. The most striking feature of this selloff is what the lending market is…
