Trader notes, earnings previews, Confluences, weekly digests and roundups — long-form analysis grounded in ORTEX short interest, options flow and analyst data.
Trader Note — 15007 total
Core Scientific has dropped another 5% this week to $18.85, extending a post-earnings slide that has now wiped roughly 10% off the stock in a month — and the bears who survived earnings are showing no sign of…
American Healthcare REIT enters the back half of August with a striking contradiction: short interest jumping 36% in a single week while every analyst who touched the stock this month raised their price target. The…
CART enters the week after its strongest quarterly result in years — and management is cashing out. The most striking development is a cluster of C-suite sales hitting the tape within days of the August 6 earnings…
VLTO enters the back half of August with an unusual dynamic: short sellers are quietly covering while the stock trades below where most analysts think it should be. The most striking move this week is in short…
IBIT is caught between two competing signals — shorts are retreating and the borrow market is relaxed, yet options traders are buying more downside protection than at any point in recent weeks. The options market is…
ABX heads into the back half of August carrying the weight of a brutal post-earnings selloff, persistent insider selling from the top of the house, and a short score that remains uncomfortably elevated — a combination…
The headline tension on LSGR — the Natixis Loomis Sayles Focused Growth ETF — is a dramatic collapse in short-side activity, with borrow costs falling sharply even as they remain unusually elevated for a fund of this…
Bitdeer Technologies Group enters the back half of August with a newly hostile combination: the most aggressive options hedging in over a year, shorts continuing to build, and a bruised stock still digesting a 20%…
CHAT, the Roundhill Generative AI & Technology ETF, enters the back half of August with a sharp single-day drop cutting across an otherwise solid monthly gain — and the most striking shift is not in the price action…
KVUE has slipped further since its August 13 Q3 print, with the stock now at $18.80 — down 1.3% on the week and 1% over the past month — as the Street quietly walked back price targets even as earnings results posed no…
GE HealthCare Technologies enters the back half of August in an awkward spot — up 15% over the past month on the back of a strong Q2 print, yet shorts have been methodically adding to positions even as the stock…
Prime Medicine enters the week with an uncomfortable combination: a fresh analyst endorsement pointing to significant upside, a short base near its highest level of the year, and a borrow market that just tightened…
Warner Bros. Discovery hit a five-week high of $28.48 this week, up 5.2% — yet the people who know the company best have been selling every day the price has risen. The insider activity is the real story here. CEO…
Corebridge Financial has spent the week consolidating its post-earnings gains, with short sellers largely done covering and the analyst community still nudging targets upward — the question now is whether the stock can…
AMLX just delivered one of the sharpest single-session moves in small-cap biotech this year, and the Street is still scrambling to reprice it. The stock closed at $35.11 on Tuesday, up 64% on the day and nearly 49% on…
SHEL has now strung together three consecutive weeks of gains, adding another 1% on the week to close at £33.88 and extending its one-month advance to nearly 5% — and the story this week is less about Shell itself than…
FirstCash Holdings enters the back half of August with an unusual combination: a stock up 2.1% on the week yet facing a quiet but persistent buildup in short interest — and executives selling into every rally. The…
TeraWulf enters the back half of August with the stock down 11% in a single session and short sellers showing no signs of retreat — a combination that has pushed options traders to their most defensive posture in…
IREN enters the final stretch before its August 27 earnings release with the short position ticking back up and the borrow market snapping shut again — reversing the tentative easing flagged in the previous note. The…
Weave Communications enters the week as a deal stock, not an earnings story — Francisco Partners' $650 million acquisition agreement, announced August 18, sent the share price up 32% in a single session and 45% on the…
