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T1 Energy enters the final week of August with one of the most charged short-side setups in the US market — a third of the float sold short, the borrow pool almost entirely depleted, and a stock that just bounced 7.6%…
CAVA enters its September 1 earnings event with a split personality: short sellers have been quietly reducing exposure, yet options traders have just turned the most defensively positioned they've been all year. The…
Robinhood Markets has closed at $112.09 — up 22% on the week and 8% on Tuesday alone — leaving most of its analyst coverage underwater and the short seller retreat now looking less like caution and more like…
Lucid Group enters the final days of August with its borrow market telling a cautiously more permissive story — yet the short interest is nudging back up and the options market is turning more defensive, making this…
DT Midstream is entering the final days of August with options traders registering their most defensive posture in months, even as short sellers continue building positions into a sector-wide retreat. The sharpest…
Kanzhun Limited is navigating an unusual week — the stock is up 5.5% on the day and 3.1% over the past week, while short sellers are rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months. The short interest story is the…
Alignment Healthcare enters the back half of August with a striking contradiction at its core: short interest just posted its biggest single-day jump in months, yet the options market is tilting more bullish than at…
Ouster enters the back half of August with a conflicted setup: the post-earnings short covering that defined last week's note has reversed, shorts are rebuilding, and insiders have been selling into the very strength…
Coinbase Global has just delivered its best week in months — up 28% to $187.16 — yet short interest is climbing back, options traders have turned more defensive than at any point in recent memory, and the stock is now…
AppLovin is attempting to reclaim ground after a brutal August, with the stock up 4% on Tuesday to $310.54 — but the Street's message this week has been unambiguous: targets are coming down, and fast. The most striking…
Hims & Hers Health has staged a sharp reversal this week — up 16% to $31.75 — flipping the script on a note filed just days ago that described extreme hedging demand and relentless selling pressure. The positioning…
Affirm Holdings reported fiscal Q4 results on August 25 and exits earnings week with shorts in clear retreat, borrow conditions comfortably loose, and options traders still carrying more defensive positioning than…
Shoals Technologies Group heads into the back half of August with a sharp disconnect at its centre: a stock that has lost 27% over the past month trading well below a Street consensus that hasn't flinched. The analyst…
Expand Energy Corporation enters the final week of August with a meaningful shift in the data: the analyst pressure that defined the prior note has cracked, short sellers are unwinding at pace, and options…
DoorDash has gained 35% in a single month, yet the week closed with options traders buying protection at the most elevated pace in over two and a half standard deviations — a divergence that defines the current…
Roblox heads into autumn with its short-selling community in full retreat, even as the stock sits nearly 18% below where it traded a month ago — a gap that frames the week's central tension. The most dramatic data…
Airbnb has continued climbing this week — but the options market is now flashing its most defensive signal in months, even as the Street scrambles to revise targets upward. The clearest shift in market structure is in…
SMMT heads into the final days of August with a clear divergence between two analyst camps — and a $50 million insider vote of confidence from the top of the company still sitting in recent memory. The most notable…
Palantir Technologies closed Tuesday at $172.73 — down from the $179.94 high reported in Monday's note — and the more pointed story this week is that the pullback has arrived alongside a meaningful split in the peer…
FROG enters the back half of August with an unusual dynamic: short sellers are rushing for the exit just as Wall Street raises its expectations for the stock. The most striking development this week is the speed of the…
