Trader notes, earnings previews, Confluences, weekly digests and roundups — long-form analysis grounded in ORTEX short interest, options flow and analyst data.
Market Commentary — 8042 total
Short sellers added pressure across several popular names this week. Data from ORTEX shows short interest climbed on stocks already in the crosshairs of retail traders. GME saw its SI % of FF jump to 16.3%, up from…
The chip rally shows no signs of fading. AMD was the week's standout analyst story. Consensus target prices jumped 30% to $411, with 14 analysts now rating it a Buy. Options flow backed the move, with heavy bullish…
Memory and AI chip stocks dominated unusual options flow this week. SNDK — up 429% year-to-date — saw the second-largest bullish options bets of any US stock over the past seven days. MU led the pack. The chipmaker has…
I have solid data. Let me parse through the key confirmed earnings events (type = "Earnings" or "Earnings Call") for the week across both US/Canada and Europe, filtering out non-earnings events. Today kicks off a…
AMD drew the most dramatic analyst action on Wednesday. Multiple analysts updated their views simultaneously. The consensus target price jumped from $314 to $411 — a 30% leap. Fourteen analysts now rate AMD a Buy, up…
Short sellers stepped up pressure across several well-known names this week, with data to May 5 revealing some striking moves. GME saw its short interest jump to 16.3% of free float, up from 13.8% just seven days ago —…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. Wolfspeed and GameStop saw the biggest short interest jumps among liquid US stocks. Wolfspeed sits at 52.7% SI % FF — up nearly 3 percentage points in seven days. The chipmaker…
Advanced Micro Devices dominated analyst activity Wednesday. Multiple analysts lifted their targets. The consensus average jumped from $314 to $411. That is a 31% increase in the average target price in a single…
Bill Ackman put his money where his mouth is. The PS founder and CEO filed this week showing he bought $19M worth of Pershing Square shares on April 30. That's a strong vote of confidence in his own fund. CoStar Group…
The biggest story this week is straightforward: money is flooding into US equities. American-focused ETFs pulled in a net $136B in the past seven days alone. That dwarfs every other geography combined. Over three…
Markets are in the thick of one of the busiest earnings weeks of the year. Over 1,900 companies report globally between May 6 and May 12. The tone is broadly positive so far. BorgWarner kicked things off with a beat.…
Now I have enough data to write a focused, insightful article. Options traders are leaning bullish on semiconductors and energy names. The signals are clear across multiple timeframes. Intel stands out with an RSI of…
Now I have solid data for the article. Let me identify the key confirmed earnings events from the broader dataset (the getearningsweek_ahead results had major names like Kraft Heinz, Kering, Akamai, Disney, BorgWarner…
Analyst desks were busy Wednesday with notable target price revisions across technology, industrials, and consumer names. Lumentum Holdings saw the biggest consensus target jump. The average price target rose from $905…
Insider trading filings this week reveal a sharp split between buyers betting on recovery and sellers locking in gains. Bill Ackman backs his own fund. The billionaire founder and CEO of PS (Pershing Square Inc.) filed…
Short sellers dramatically increased bets across a handful of micro-cap US stocks in the past seven days. BDRX (Biodexa Pharmaceuticals) saw the biggest move. Its SI % of Free Float exploded from 60% to 681% in a…
AMD is this week's most watched name. CEO Lisa Su confirmed the company has secured AI memory supply — but warned that rising prices are squeezing PC and gaming demand. The stock is up 68% year-to-date. Options traders…
Semiconductors are dominating options flow this week. AMD, Micron, and NVIDIA sit at the top of both positive and negative options bets screens — a sign of heavy two-way conviction as earnings season hits the…
The data is very rich. Let me parse through the key confirmed earnings events for the week, focusing on US/major names with confirmed (non-Estimated) event types. Today kicks off one of the busiest earnings weeks of…
Analyst price target upgrades dominated Wednesday's activity. The biggest move came at LITE. Lumentum Holdings saw its consensus target jump to $991.89, up from $904.89 — an $87 lift in a single session. The optical…
