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Trader NoteKLAR

Klarna Crashes 23% Post-Earnings as Street Slashes Targets

Klarna delivered its earnings on August 18 and the market's verdict was brutal — a 23% single-day collapse that wiped out months of recovery and left the bulls who dominated options positioning going into the print…

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Trader NoteSAIL

Analysts Lift Targets as SAIL Shorts Retreat

SailPoint enters the back half of August with a rare alignment: short sellers are retreating, analysts are raising targets, and the stock has climbed 22% in a month — all ahead of a September 8 earnings print that has…

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Trader NoteSNDK

SNDK Shorts Rebuild as Street Lifts Targets

SNDK has just posted its strongest weekly gain since mid-July — up 28% on the week to $1,625.78 — yet Tuesday's session delivered a sharp 9% pullback, and the short base is quietly creeping back toward levels that…

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Trader NotePONY

Pony AI Post-Earnings: BofA Cuts, Options Flash Caution

PONY just printed its August 18 results and the immediate market reaction is telling — the stock fell 2.9% on the day and is down 8.6% on the week, even as B of A Securities moved to trim its target the morning after…

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Trader NotePRMB

PRMB: CEO Buys Into the Dip as Sponsor Exits

Primo Brands Corporation enters the week with a defining contrast at its core — the CEO buying stock at the same price a major insider just sold $497 million worth. The most striking development of the past two weeks…

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Trader NoteCBRS

CBRS: Shorts Cover, Stock Pulls Back, Street Holds Firm

Cerebras Systems enters the back half of August with a notable tension: shorts are quietly covering, the stock has given back ground sharply, yet every analyst who filed a note this week held their Buy rating and their…

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Trader NoteBTC

BTC Mini Trust: The August Short Spike Unwinds

The August 11 short surge in BTC — Grayscale's Bitcoin Mini Trust — has largely reversed, leaving positioning back near where it was before that dramatic one-day spike. The unwinding is the clearest development since…

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Trader NoteRAPP

RAPP: CEO Selling Into Strength as Analysts Hold the Line

RAPP has stabilised near $49 after last week's sharp short-covering rally, but the headline this week is the CEO — who has been a consistent seller into every upward move since mid-July. The insider data is hard to…

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Trader NoteBOW

Morgan Stanley Lifts BOW Target as Short Sellers Exit

Bowhead Specialty Holdings enters the back half of August with an unusual combination: a fresh analyst upgrade and a short base that has quietly collapsed to near-irrelevant levels, even as the stock climbs 9% over the…

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Trader NoteVIK

VIK Post-Earnings: Options Flip as UBS Raises to $121

Viking Holdings reported this morning and the market's immediate read is cautious — the stock is down 3.2% on the week to $98.29 — but the most striking data point isn't the price move, it's how sharply options…

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Trader NoteCTRI

CTRI Craters 18% in a Month as Analysts Slash Targets

Centuri Holdings enters the back half of August with a sharp post-earnings hangover and a Street that is still recalibrating its view — shares have fallen 18% over the past month to $22.65, with another 5% drop on…

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Trader NoteRBRK

RBRK Options Signal Hits a 52-Week Extreme as Earnings Loom

RBRK heads into its August 27 earnings print with options traders more bullish than they have been all year — a striking contrast to a stock where shorts have been quietly building then retreating, and where the Street…

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Trader NoteDJT

DJT Short Build Stalls, But Bears Hold the Floor

DJT has settled into an uneasy equilibrium after last week's post-earnings rout — shorts are no longer piling in, but the stock keeps drifting lower and the options crowd has turned its most bullish in over a year. The…

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Trader NoteCRML

CRML Bears Tighten Grip as Borrow Dries Up

Critical Metals Corp. heads into the back half of August with shorts rebuilding aggressively, borrow effectively exhausted, and the one analyst who mattered most to the bull case cutting his target in half — a rare…

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Trader NoteAS

Amer Sports Post-Earnings: Bulls Back, Street Divided

Amer Sports has just printed its August results — and the week's most striking story is how completely the options market reversed course from the defensive crouch documented only days ago, even as the stock remains…

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Trader NoteHUT

HUT 8 Slides Further as Shorts Add and Options Turn Bullish

Hut 8 Corp. enters the back half of August with the stock down another 9% on the week to $80.79 — extending a bruising run that began with the August 4 earnings collapse — while an unusual split has opened up between…

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