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The week in one paragraph: Earnings season positioning dominated the 518 pulses fired across the ORTEX platform between 5 and 12 October. Short sellers scrambled on both sides of the tape, covering aggressively in some…
The week ahead in one paragraph: Q3 earnings season kicks off in earnest with the biggest US banks reporting Tuesday through Thursday. JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup all report Tuesday; Bank of…
The week's biggest scheduled event is already underway. UNH and JNJ both hold Q3 calls this morning, each carrying market caps above $300 billion. BAC follows Wednesday at 6:45am ET. Banks dominate the rest of the…
Bullish options sentiment is loudest in semiconductors and biotech this week. A quiet but pointed defensive flow runs in the opposite direction. NVIDIA sits at a 14-day RSI of 53 and has put on 23% year-to-date. Chip…
The big banks dominate this week's calendar. UNH kicks things off today with its Q3 2026 earnings call, followed by JNJ at the same time this morning. Both carry market caps above $300 billion. Tomorrow brings PGR, the…
Wolfe Research downgraded INSM to Peer Perform from Outperform on Monday morning. The move came on the same day short interest jumped 26.5% in a single session to 6.46% of free float. Yet the options market told a…
Analysts trimmed targets across the US utilities sector Monday, with at least five major names seeing price cuts. Sempra, FirstEnergy, PPL Corporation, PG&E, and American Electric Power all saw consensus targets edged…
Insider filings from late August and early September show a sharp divide between sellers and buyers at the top. Tenet Healthcare saw the heaviest C-suite selling. CEO Saum Sutaria filed sales worth more than $27M…
Short interest in CHWY jumped nearly 20 percentage points in just one week. The pet retailer now sits at 87.3% of free float shorted, up from 67.4% on 2 October. That is one of the sharpest seven-day moves in the US…
Pershing Square Inc. has added a new data point to an already bearish picture. Short interest surged 183% in a single session on October 9, more than tripling the share count on loan. That move now sits atop a borrow…
Options activity at HLN has turned unusually bearish just as the lending market moves sharply in the other direction. That contrast between a put-call ratio spike and a rapidly loosening borrow pool makes this…
Short interest in Constellation Brands has risen to 5.5% of the free float, up 33% over the past month, even as the stock has recovered 8.7% over the past week to $122.64. The divergence between a recovering price and…
ABEV just saw its steepest single-session short interest drop on record. Shares short fell 32% in one day to 92.3 million, unwinding a position that had been stable above 136 million for most of October. That is a…
Yesterday's calm is gone. WFF saw short positions jump 1,320% in a single session on October 9, reversing the unwind that had been the story for most of the past month. The October 11 note described a squeeze that had…
AST SpaceMobile picked up a Deutsche Bank upgrade to Buy on Monday, with analyst Bryan Kraft maintaining his $93 target. That implies 83% upside from Friday's close of $51. The timing is pointed: the stock has fallen…
Leidos Holdings has drawn a convergence of negative signals this week. A JP Morgan downgrade, elevated options put demand, and a sharp rise in borrowing costs are all pointing in the same direction ahead of the…
The week's biggest calendar event arrives today. UnitedHealth Group and Johnson & Johnson both report Q3 results Monday morning. Bank of America and State Street follow Tuesday, marking the first serious test of the US…
Options markets are flashing mixed signals this week. Chip stocks attract the heaviest negative bets while a set of large-cap defensives sees unusually one-sided bullish positioning. NVDA tops the negative options flow…
The third-quarter reporting season shifts into a higher gear this week. Financial giants dominate the calendar, with big-name healthcare and insurance names also due. UnitedHealth Group kicks off today, Monday 13…
The standout reading in this week's real-economy data is stark. Xcel Energy's reactor output stood 10.0 standard deviations below its own history as of 10 October, according to the ORTEX nuclear output dataset. That is…
