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SCHD: Options Turn Bullish as Short Sellers Build Positions

SCHD, the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF, is trading with a curious split personality this week — options traders have turned notably bullish while short sellers have quietly doubled their positions over the past…

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POET Rockets 30% Into a Class Action Storm

POET Technologies delivered one of the week's most jarring price swings — a 30% surge on May 5 to $9.21, up 51% over the past month — arriving on the same day a wave of securities class action lawsuits landed at its…

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ALSN Beats and Bounces, but the Street Stays Neutral

Allison Transmission delivered a Q1 2026 earnings beat, only to slide on the week — and the analyst community's response tells you exactly why the market's reaction was muted. The clearest story coming out of this week…

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Trader NoteMPC

Analysts Chase the Rally After MPC's Earnings Beat

Marathon Petroleum heads into the post-earnings week with Wall Street scrambling to update targets and the stock up 12% in five sessions — a setup where the analyst community is chasing price rather than leading…

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Trader NoteNBIS

NBIS: A $643M Deal, a Record High, and Shorts Caught Offside

Nebius Group walked into the May 13 earnings call week having already detonated its biggest catalyst of the year — a $643 million acquisition of Eigen AI and a confirmed expansion of its Meta partnership — sending the…

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Trader NoteCLRB

CLRB Borrow Market Seizes Up Ahead of Thursday Earnings

Cellectar Biosciences enters its May 8 earnings call in a radically different lending market than it sat in just 48 hours ago. The story this week is the lending market, and it moved with extraordinary speed. Short…

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Trader NoteSQNS

Sequans sells Bitcoin, shorts flee

SQNS just reported Q1 earnings — and the story that emerged is stranger than the chip business it was supposed to be. Q1 revenue fell 24.8% to $6.1 million. The net loss hit $54.3 million, but most of that — $41…

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Trader NoteHCA

HCA Investors Price In a Rougher Road Ahead

HCA Healthcare enters the week after its Q1 earnings print with options markets running unusually defensive, short sellers rebuilding positions at a pace not seen in months, and a coordinated analyst target-price reset…

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META Weathers the Post-Earnings Storm

Meta Platforms had a rough week even as its fundamentals held firm. The stock fell nearly 10% over the five sessions to $604.96, driven by a post-earnings selloff and a wave of target cuts. Yet the short positioning…

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Trader NoteHRZN

HRZN Posts Earnings as Borrow Costs Retreat

Horizon Technology Finance emerged from Q1 earnings week with the stock up 7.4% over five days — a sharp reversal for a name that had been drifting lower, still off about 1% on the month. The week's most notable…

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VOO's Options Flip: Bulls Step Back In

VOO heads into the first full week of May with its most striking data point not in the lending market — where short interest remains negligible — but in options, where positioning has undergone a dramatic one-session…

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Trader NoteFN

Fabrinet beats, sells off — shorts unwind as analysts reprice

FN just delivered a textbook beat-and-dip. Q3 adjusted EPS of $3.72 topped the $3.56 consensus, and revenue of $1.21 billion cleared estimates by $33 million — yet the stock fell 6.5% the day after results and ended…

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Trader NoteSOXL

SOXL's Monster Week Masks a Brewing Tug of War

SOXL has just posted one of the most violent two-week recoveries in its history, but the short side isn't backing down quietly. The Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X ETF gained 13% on Tuesday alone and is up 32% on…

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Trader NoteAVNW

AVNW Craters 33% as Earnings Miss Triggers Law Firm Scrutiny

Aviat Networks just delivered one of its worst trading sessions in memory — a 33% collapse on May 5 after a Q3 2026 earnings print that missed EPS estimates by $0.36. The stock closed at $15.09, having shed roughly 30%…

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Trader NoteMXL

MaxLinear's Earnings Explosion Leaves Analysts Scrambling

MXL has just delivered one of the most violent post-earnings re-ratings in recent semiconductor memory — a 78% single-day move last week that has left the stock trading well above where even its most bullish analyst…

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Trader NoteADUS

Addus bears ease back, but Street targets keep sliding

ADUS heads into the week after its May 4 earnings print with short sellers pulling back and options traders showing little alarm — yet analyst target cuts keep arriving, keeping the stock well below where most of the…

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