Trader Note — 9789 total
NIO has shed 5.6% this week to $5.74, reversing the pre-earnings optimism that defined the prior two notes — the Q1 print landed, the bullish options setup has unwound, and positioning now looks measurably more…
Bloom Energy reports Q1 results on May 21 with short sellers making a modest retreat — but options traders running their most defensive posture of the past year. The shift in short positioning is a meaningful update…
Tenable Holdings enters its Q1 earnings call on May 21 with shorts still dug in despite one of the sharpest weekly moves in the cybersecurity sector. The stock gained 20% on the week and 30% over the past month to…
ARTY — the iShares Future AI & Tech ETF — heads into the week with a notable divergence: options positioning has turned sharply more bullish even as the ETF gives back ground it gained over the past month. The options…
GLDM, the SPDR Gold MiniShares Trust, has dropped nearly 5% this week — but the short side of the trade remains almost non-existent. Gold's pullback is the story here, not the shorts. GLDM closed at $88.70 on Tuesday,…
The caution flagged in last week's note has not faded — QTUM is drifting lower with short interest climbing sharply and options traders maintaining their defensive lean. Short interest has almost tripled since late…
AMRX enters this week's session caught between a fresh analyst upgrade and a stock that has shed 15% in a month — a gap that defines the current setup for Amneal Pharmaceuticals. Options positioning is the most charged…
Bilibili enters its Q1 earnings call on May 21 carrying one of the tightest borrow markets in the Chinese internet space — a setup unchanged from the earnings preview published earlier this week, with availability…
AVGO enters the final stretch before its June 3 earnings with a modest pullback from recent highs, a cost-to-borrow spike worth watching, and options traders showing just a touch more caution than last week. The price…
SELLAS Life Sciences Group has gained 45% in a week, yet short sellers have barely moved — and the borrow market is tightening again. A week ago this note flagged the tension between a rallying biotech and an…
Guardant Health enters the back half of May with short sellers quietly backing away and analysts nudging targets higher — a combination that frames a more constructive backdrop heading into the June 17 Q1…
MongoDB arrives at its May 28 earnings report having recovered sharply from a brutal February, and the question now is whether the positioning around that rally makes sense. The stock is up 27% over the past month and…
Cactus, Inc. has rallied 15% in a month and analysts are chasing the move — four separate target upgrades arrived in the past ten days alone, all from firms that were already bullish. The Street read is unambiguously…
Savara Inc. has now cleared its May 20 earnings event — and shorts haven't blinked. Short interest is essentially unchanged at 13.6% of the free float, flat on the week and up roughly 3% over the past month. That level…
ZTO Express has given back ground since its Q1 print, sliding 5.3% on the week to $23.55 — and the valuation re-rating that has accompanied the retreat is the most telling part of the story right now. The multiple…
GDS Holdings has printed its Q1 results and the stock is sliding — down 5.5% on the week to $40.41 — yet the borrow market remains near-completely exhausted, and short interest is quietly rebuilding. The lending…
FTXL, the First Trust Nasdaq Semiconductor ETF, enters the back half of May with a striking split: options traders are more aggressively bullish than at almost any point in the past year, while the borrow market swung…
Smurfit Westrock heads into the week of May 20 with its sharpest drawdown in months and options markets pricing in far more caution than they have all year. The price action is the most striking feature of the week. SW…
US Foods Holding Corp. has spent the week digesting a double blow — a disappointing Q1 print on May 14 and a wave of analyst target cuts that followed — leaving the stock down 13% over the past month at $81.25. The…
e.l.f. Beauty walked into its fiscal Q4 earnings on May 20 carrying a 21% monthly drawdown, 12% short interest, and a Wall Street consensus that had spent six weeks slashing targets. The print has landed. What the data…
