Trader Note — 9789 total
Interactive Brokers Group has spent the past week rebuilding after its post-earnings slide, closing at $82.89 on Tuesday — up 1.9% on the day, though still down fractionally on the week and sitting just below the…
SMCI has turned sharply higher this week — up 21% to $37.10 — and that surge has arrived alongside the most defensive options print of the past year, creating a tension that runs through every layer of the current…
ADS has had one of its better weeks in months. The stock added 7.1% over the past five sessions to close at €157.20 — a gain that peers broadly matched but rarely beat. Behind the move is a credible story: strong Q1…
Celsius Holdings heads into its Q1 earnings print on May 28 with a cluster of insider buying at current lows — a signal that cuts against the bearish positioning that has dominated the story for weeks. The insider…
Leidos Holdings has clawed back ground this week, and the options market — which was flashing its loudest distress signal in months just days ago — has quietly stepped back from the ledge. The shift in options…
Avis Budget Group heads into the back half of May with short sellers still committed but the mechanics of that bet becoming steadily cheaper to maintain. Short interest remains elevated at 14.4% of the float — a…
Short sellers made their biggest move on DBC in months — and the timing lines up almost perfectly with a sharp weekly selloff in crude. Short interest in the Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund nearly tripled…
Mastercard heads into its June 16 earnings date with options traders taking a more defensive stance than usual, even as short sellers show little conviction. The clearest signal this week is in the options market. The…
GDX has reversed sharply from last week's lows, with the VanEck Gold Miners ETF up 5.6% on the week and 4.1% on Tuesday alone, closing at $88.50. The question now is whether the short sellers who built positions into…
Delek US Holdings enters the final days of May caught between two competing signals: a dramatic squeeze in short positioning over the past month and a cluster of insider selling that has accelerated just as the stock…
SLV, the iShares Silver Trust, heads into the final days of May on the strongest footing in months — up 4.2% on the week and 2.0% on Tuesday alone — while short sellers have been steadily retreating and the borrow…
USO — the United States Oil Fund — entered the week in a new phase: the extreme borrow squeeze that defined the past month has partially unwound, yet short interest remains historically elevated and the fund itself…
Energy Transfer LP enters the week on the back foot, down 3.9% over five days to $19.60 — but the story here is less about selling pressure and more about a tide of analyst upgrades that arrived just before a…
United Airlines Holdings has reversed sharply from the sell-off that defined last week's note, gaining 19% in five sessions to close at $105.92 — a complete rebuke of the distress pricing that had the stock at $89 just…
BIDU has given back nearly 8% this week to $126.83, but the more consequential reversal is in the lending market — availability has surged from the annual floor hit just two weeks ago to a level that now looks almost…
Samsung Electronics has gone from consolidation to a full-blown re-rating — up 36% in a month, up 8.5% on the week, and trading at ₩299,000 as of May 26. The price surge is the story. Last week's note described Samsung…
Vale S.A. is heading into its July 30 Q2 results with a mixed weekly tape: a 2.5% bounce over five days to BRL 83.07, yet down more than 3% on the month and carrying the weight of three straight post-earnings…
BYD Company Limited heads into the final stretch of May caught between two competing narratives: a 55% quarterly profit plunge at home and accelerating sales growth in Europe — and short sellers have been quietly…
Geely Automobile Holdings heads into its June 5 earnings with short sellers at their most aggressive in months — yet the lending market tells a different story about conviction. The clearest shift is in positioning.…
POSCO Holdings has found its footing this week, recovering a modest 0.3% to ₩442,000 after last week's sharp 8% decline — but the rebound is shallow, and the peer group is sending mixed signals. The recovery has been…
