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Take-Two Interactive reported earnings on May 21 with the stock trading at $238.08 — and the clearest shift since the print is not in short selling but in how options traders have repositioned. Options positioning has…
Infleqtion delivered a 31% single-day gain on Thursday — and the options market had been quietly calling it. The clearest setup was in options positioning. The put/call ratio has been sliding for nearly a month,…
IonQ surged 12% in a single session on Thursday, yet more than a fifth of its free float remains sold short — and the lending pool has almost completely dried up. The sharpest signal in IonQ's current setup is the…
Rigetti Computing enters its June 9 earnings window with a sharp tension at its core: the stock just posted a 31% single-session gain, yet short sellers have been quietly adding to positions throughout May, and the…
Ralph Lauren just delivered its May 21 earnings print, and the stock is up 2.7% on the day — a relief bounce after a brutal month that stripped nearly 15% from the share price. The earnings release changes the…
TeraWulf heads into its June 9 earnings date with one of the more striking divergences in the bitcoin mining space — analysts racing to raise targets while company founders sold tens of millions worth of stock at the…
AST SpaceMobile is caught in a rare standoff: the stock just printed a 21% weekly gain while short sellers are adding, not retreating. The price move is the headline. ASTS closed at $88.10 on Tuesday, up more than 20%…
Xanadu Quantum Technologies has had one of the more eventful post-earnings weeks in the Canadian small-cap universe — the stock has cratered 61% over the past month, shorts have piled in at pace, and yet the borrow…
Palvella Therapeutics enters the week with a sharp split between options sentiment and short positioning — calls dominating the tape while nearly a fifth of the float remains borrowed against the stock. The most…
HUT is now in a different phase from the one described in last week's note: the post-earnings momentum has reversed, the stock is down 13% on the week to $93.31, and options positioning has shifted meaningfully toward…
Core Scientific heads into this week with a sharp contradiction at its core — the Street is aggressively lifting targets after a strong earnings beat, yet short sellers are actually adding rather than running. The…
AHR heads into the summer with a notable tension: institutional money is flowing in at pace, yet the stock trades below the Street's consensus target as short interest quietly rebuilds from April lows. The…
DXYZ enters the week in reversal mode — a stock that more than doubled off its lows is now giving back ground fast, while short sellers quietly rebuild. The price story captures the tension well. Destiny Tech100 closed…
Warner Bros. Discovery approaches its June 9 earnings call with a clear insider narrative: senior executives used the March price recovery to reduce holdings at scale, while the Street has held a steady-to-cautious…
Options traders have turned notably bullish on APO — the most striking shift in the data this week. The put/call ratio dropped to 0.81 on Tuesday, more than 3.5 standard deviations below its 20-day average of 0.90.…
IREN dropped 15.6% over the past week to $47.74 — and the options market just posted its most defensive reading of the year. The clearest new development this week is in options sentiment. The put/call ratio jumped to…
Blue Owl Capital heads into its June 4 earnings release with short sellers adding pressure, the stock sitting near multi-month lows, and the Street still broadly cautious after a wave of target cuts. Short interest is…
Blackstone heads into the end of this week with a notable disconnect: short sellers have continued to exit, yet the stock has fallen nearly 7% — the pressure is coming from price action, not from a rebuilding short…
KKR & Co. Inc. reports Q1 results on May 21 with options traders at their most defensive in a year — and the stock already down 6.6% on the week to $92.92. The dominant signal heading into the print is in options. The…
BJ's Wholesale Club reported Q1 results on May 21 and the stock has held its ground — up 6.1% on the week to $97.66 — yet the analyst community is still debating whether this re-rating has legs or has simply run into a…
