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GOOGL has surrendered a chunk of its post-earnings recovery, dropping 9% in a week to close at $343.80 — erasing more than half of the rebound from the July 23 low of $317.69 to the recent peak near $378. The price…
CRM enters its August 26 earnings report carrying a striking divergence: short sellers have been covering aggressively while the Street remains split on whether Agentforce is a growth story or a distraction. The most…
MFIC heads into the back half of August with an unusual split: short sellers are unwinding at pace while the analyst community is busy lowering the bar. The short-covering story is the clearest trend in the data right…
Halozyme Therapeutics is in an unusual spot three days after its 23% earnings pop — the stock has stalled at $102.62 while shorts, far from covering, have barely moved. Short interest is marginally lower than it was…
Flutter Entertainment enters the post-earnings stretch with its most dramatic short-covering episode of the past month, even as the stock sits nearly 11% below where it traded a week ago. The defining move this week is…
VCR, the Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF, is closing out the week with one of the more dramatic reversals in its lending market seen all year — short sellers who were actively hedging the fund through late July…
XLU enters the back half of August with a notable shift in its short positioning — the large build that defined July is now partially unwinding, even as options traders turn less defensive than they've been in…
XLK is seeing a notable reversal from last week's narrative — short sellers who covered during the tech rebound have quietly been rebuilding positions, even as the fund itself trades within a whisker of those same…
The story that drove last week's note — a sustained short-side retreat — has flipped in the past few days, with XLI now showing a modest rebuild in short positions even as the borrow market remains broadly…
XLF has spent the past week in a decisive phase of short covering — the retreat that began in July has suddenly lurched into a sprint, with the lending market opening up dramatically as bears step back. The short cover…
XLE has rallied sharply this week, and the short book that drove the previous note's headline is finally showing signs of retreat — though the lending market tells a more nuanced story than a simple short squeeze. The…
XLY has reversed course sharply in the past week, with short sellers rebuilding positions just as options traders push defensive hedging to the highest level in months. The August 5 note documented a clean bear…
XLP enters the back half of August with bears pressing back in at an accelerating pace — the second consecutive weekly rebuild after the dramatic short-covering wave that ran through late July. The short interest story…
XLV, the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF, has seen a sharp reversal in short positioning this week — the rebuild that defined the previous note has unwound almost as fast as it arrived. The short-side story has…
XLB, the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF, has reversed course sharply — the brief lending-market relief noted a week ago has evaporated, with short interest jumping and availability collapsing back toward the tight…
SPY slipped just 0.1% on the week to $770.56, but the real story is a sharp escalation in hedging demand that now sits closer to the year's extreme than at any point since late June. The options market is the standout…
IYG, the iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF, presents an unusual split this week: short interest is falling sharply while the borrow market has quietly tightened from its most relaxed levels of the year. The lending…
IGM is an iShares expanded tech ETF trading at $162.17, and the most interesting development this week is not the modest price dip — it is a sharp, sustained rebuild in short interest that has more than doubled in…
EWC has quietly put together a solid few weeks, gaining 2.5% over the past week and nearly 5% over the past month to close at $61.51 — and the positioning data tells a notably relaxed story. The most striking feature…
The standout story on DIA this week is a sharp and rapid unwinding of short positions — the kind of move that changes how the lending market reads. Short interest fell 28% in a single session on August 11, dropping to…
