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Three distinct signals converged on Revolution Medicines this week. Retail attention has surged to its highest in months. Options traders are buying more protection. Short sellers have added to positions already at a…
The put/call ratio on EWU, the iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF, has fallen to 1.48, two standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 2.98. That is the clearest sign yet that the extreme defensive hedging of late…
Three distinct signals converged on Tesla in the 24 hours before Tuesday's Q3 results. Retail attention hit 5.9 standard deviations above its own 90-day average. The options market held its most call-heavy posture in a…
Options traders have turned sharply more defensive on MasTec. The put/call ratio hit 0.7707 on October 19, nearly 3.9 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.6077. That move came as the stock fell 7.7% over the…
Today is one of the busiest mornings of the earnings season. GM reported Q3 results before the open alongside GE, RTX, HAL, and MMM. NFLX and ISRG follow after the close. ORTEX alt data tracking German new-car…
Options sentiment is diverging sharply across two big names reporting this week, with Amazon carrying the most bullish flow and Tesla far more cautiously positioned. AMZN shows 74.6% positive options flow over the past…
Short sellers added most to Wolfspeed (WOLF): short interest rose 4.2 points in a session to 86.8% of free float, against a one-year high of 100.7%, while the stock lost 13.9% over the week. The largest cover was in…
The busiest morning of the season is here. GM reports Q3 before the open alongside GE, RTX, HAL, and MMM. Shares in 3M are already trading higher in the premarket after the company posted results. NFLX and ISRG…
Options flow this week is heavily shaped by an earnings-packed calendar. Markets are bracing for results from GM today and TSLA tomorrow, with big tech names META, MSFT, GOOGL and AMZN following later in the week. The…
Today is one of the busiest mornings of the earnings season. GM reports Q3 results before the open, joined by GE, RTX, HAL, and MMM. NFLX and ISRG follow after the close. ORTEX alt data adds context for GM: German…
The UK employment rate reached 75.3% in July 2026. That was the highest July reading in six years, according to the ORTEX UK Jobs and CPI dataset, edging past the 75.1% recorded in July 2025. The headline tells a story…
Citigroup swept through its energy-services coverage on Tuesday, trimming price targets across the board. SLB fell from $63 to $62. Baker Hughes dropped from $75 to $72. Both stocks keep their Buy ratings. The moves…
A cluster of insider filings from late August stands out this earnings season. At NGL Energy Partners, director John Thomas Raymond filed purchases of roughly $5.1M on 25 August, snapping up 300,000 units at around…
Short sellers added to positions in CHWY last week. SI % of free float rose to 91.5%, up 4.3 percentage points in seven days. That makes it one of the sharpest movers among mid- and large-cap US names. Borrowing costs…
China pulled in $13.7B in a single week. That is the standout number in this week's ETF flow data. Taiwan added $6.8B with a flow imbalance of 97, meaning almost every dollar moving was a buy. Together, Asia's two…
Three distinct signals aligned on IESC within 24 hours. The put-call ratio, short interest, and retail attention all moved sharply in the same direction as the stock fell 12.8% over one week. The most striking reading…
Uranium Royalty Corp. is drawing attention from three directions at once. The stock is down 23% over the past month. Short positions have jumped sharply. Now options traders are reaching for downside protection at a…
Options traders are piling into protective puts on RMBS just six days before the company reports. The put-call ratio jumped to 0.6292 on Monday, 4.1 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.556. That is the most…
Why this matters: Eight days before earnings, United Therapeutics is drawing attention from every direction at once. Options traders are buying calls at the fastest pace in months. Retail attention has spiked to nearly…
Options traders have rarely been this one-sided on GCM Grosvenor. The put-call ratio hit 0.0682 on October 19, sitting 3.78 standard deviations below its 20-day mean. That is the most extreme bullish skew in the…
