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Short sellers have made a decisive move on CHWY in the past week. Short interest as a percentage of free float jumped 25 points to 91.2%. That is one of the sharpest weekly increases across mid- and large-cap US…
BBD reports Q3 results on October 22 with two sharply divergent signals: insiders loaded up on shares last month while borrowing costs jumped more than fifteen-fold in a single day. The most striking development in the…
Tesla reports after Tuesday's close. General Motors posts Q3 results pre-market the same day. Both names are pulling heavy options flow. ORTEX alt data show German car registrations running 269% above the same quarter…
Tesla and General Motors dominate options flow this week. Both report earnings within 24 hours of each other, on October 21 and 20 respectively. That compressed timeline is pulling unusual volume into near-dated…
Tomorrow kicks off a heavy reporting schedule. GM posts Q3 results at 6:30am ET on Tuesday. NFLX reports after the bell the same day. RTX and MMM also report Tuesday. The biggest name is TSLA, reporting after Tuesday's…
Malaysian new car registrations hit 74,122 in September, according to the Malaysian vehicle registration authority. That is the largest September on record since 2017. It beats the previous best of 68,970 set in…
Analysts upgraded a cluster of cybersecurity stocks on Monday. Fortinet, Palantir Technologies, and Palo Alto Networks all received upgrades, with consensus buy ratings firming across all three names. PANW carries the…
The most eye-catching recent insider filing to cross ORTEX's data came from UBER. Andrew MacDonald, President and COO, reported buying 54,325 shares on September 4 for roughly $4.1 million. The purchase was filed on…
CHWY is the standout mover this week. Short interest jumped 25.3 percentage points in seven days to 91.2% of free float. That is one of the sharpest weekly surges seen in any mid-cap US stock. Availability sits at…
US equities drew the largest single inflow of the week. $33.6B in net new money poured into US-focused ETFs over the past seven days, pushing the flow imbalance to 66.2. That is the clearest signal of where…
Three mega-cap names set the tone this week. Netflix reports Monday after the bell. General Motors follows Tuesday morning, and Tesla closes the day Tuesday after the bell. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX…
A packed earnings calendar is driving unusual options positioning across US markets. Tesla reports on 21 October and General Motors the day before. Both carry heavy options interest into the prints. ORTEX screening…
The week delivers some of the biggest prints of the quarter. Tesla and General Motors both report within 24 hours of each other, setting up an auto-sector showdown that carries extra weight from real-economy…
Analysts drew a sharp line between cybersecurity and utilities this week, with upgrades pouring into tech while power stocks took hits. Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Palantir all received upgrades. The…
UBER President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed two purchases totalling $5.3M in early September, the largest US open-market executive buy in the latest available data. MacDonald paid roughly $75.65 per share across…
Short sellers turned aggressively bearish on CHWY this week. Short interest as a percentage of free float hit 91.2%, up from 65.9% just seven days ago, a jump of more than 25 percentage points. That makes Chewy one of…
MARA Holdings enters the final stretch before its November 6 earnings report with the stock down 22% on the week, short interest at a fresh high, and the lending pool tightening sharply after weeks of loose…
HPK enters the week with a sharp price rally colliding against a short book that has barely budged, creating one of the more interesting tensions in small-cap E&P right now. The stock closed at $10.55 on Friday, up…
Alignment Healthcare has clawed back 9.7% over the past week to $8.28, a welcome reprieve after a catastrophic October. The stock remains down 20% over the past month and the October 29 earnings print, now eleven days…
Affirm Holdings heads into its November 5 earnings report with short sellers adding exposure and the Street trimming targets, even as the bull case remains intact. Short interest has been the clearest directional…
