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Tesla reports Wednesday. ORTEX Alt Data shows German car registrations running 269% above the same quarter last year, a dataset that leads Tesla revenue by 43 days and has tracked consistently for three consecutive…
Eight days before Harmony Biosciences reports earnings, two very different groups are paying close attention. Short sellers have spent the past week adding positions. Now retail investors are piling in too, with…
TSLA dominates options desks ahead of its Q3 2026 earnings tomorrow. The stock is down 21% year-to-date. Negative bets rank among the largest in the large-cap universe over the past week. Short interest sits at just…
General Motors reports tomorrow, Tuesday. Tesla follows on Wednesday. Both are the week's marquee prints, and real-economy data already points in the same direction. German car registration data, which ORTEX Alt Data…
EU airports, European vehicle registries and Canadian bank regulators all logged records in their latest data releases. The signals are pulling in different directions depending on the sector. EU airports handled 145.2…
Barrington Research reversed its April downgrade on OPK on 16 October, lifting the stock back to Outperform. Piper Sandler moved on the same day, raising its price target from $3.00 to $4.00 while reiterating…
The most striking target price move today comes from ILMN. Canaccord Genuity lifted its target on Illumina to $300 from $205, a 46% jump. The analyst maintained a Hold rating, suggesting caution despite the bullish…
The most striking pattern in recent filings is the relentless accumulation of Li Ning Company by its controlling vehicle. Viva China Holdings filed a series of open-market purchases across late August and early…
CHWY leads the most-shorted list with 91.5% of its free float sold short. That figure rose another 4.3 percentage points in just seven days. Short sellers are not letting up on the pet retailer. LCID holds 62.8% SI %…
US equities remained the single largest destination for ETF money this week. But the most telling signal sits underneath: China pulled in $10.3B in net flows over seven days. Its flow imbalance hit 76.5, showing strong…
Options positioning in BHB has shifted sharply ahead of Bar Harbor Bankshares' earnings on 21 October. The put-call ratio has dropped to 1.15, sitting 2.4 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 1.35. That is the…
Why this matters: This week's convergences span an unusually wide range of signals. Short interest, borrow costs, analyst moves, and options all fired together across dozens of names. That breadth makes it harder to…
Sentiment read: Options positioning this week split sharply by direction. Defensive put buying dominated energy and clean-tech names, while Philips drew aggressive call activity. Pre-earnings positioning at Teledyne…
Upgrades outnumbered downgrades across the week of October 12, with contrarian calls dominating in beaten-down tech, healthcare, and financials. The most striking single-stock story was VRNS, which absorbed six…
Short interest built sharply across several US names this week, with micro-cap and mid-cap stocks seeing the most aggressive moves. Borrow costs hit extreme levels in a handful of tickers, while ETF shorts retreated.…
The week in one paragraph: The week of 12 to 19 October brought 1,137 signals across the ORTEX platform as Q3 earnings season gathered pace. Short sellers built positions into a broad set of upcoming prints, while…
The week ahead in one paragraph: The earnings calendar is the heaviest of the quarter. Tesla and Meta report Tuesday, with General Motors kicking things off Monday morning. ORTEX-tracked German car registration data,…
Scotiabank upgraded VALE to Sector Outperform on Monday. The same day, short sellers added to positions that have already grown 42% in a month. The two moves point in opposite directions, and the gap between them is…
Options traders are hedging aggressively into RXO's 6 November earnings. That sits awkwardly alongside a sharp short unwind in the lending market. A C.H. Robinson takeover agreed in principle adds another layer: the…
The biggest event of the week is shaping up fast. GM reports Q3 results tomorrow, followed by TSLA on Wednesday. ORTEX Alt Data shows German car registrations running 133% above the same quarter last year for GM and…
