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POET Technologies pulled back 8% on Tuesday to $13.07, giving up ground after a week that saw short sellers begin to unwind — but the lending market remains far too tight for bears to declare victory. Short interest…
Enphase Energy enters the week caught between two competing forces: a 25% weekly price surge that has lifted the stock back toward analyst targets, and a short position that has barely budged despite the rally. The…
Marathon Petroleum heads into this week with a notable divergence on its hands: a stock up 23% in a month, a still-modest short base that is quietly rebuilding, and an options market starting to ask questions. The…
ARCO, the largest McDonald's franchisee in Latin America, heads into the back half of May with a stock trading at three-month lows and an options market that has suddenly turned far more defensive — the tension between…
NXTG — First Trust's Indxx NextG ETF tracking 5G and next-generation telecom infrastructure — has pulled back slightly this week even as the short activity that spiked sharply a week ago begins to unwind. The short…
Meta Platforms enters the final week before its May 27 earnings event with a subtle but telling shift: the call-heavy options signal that defined last week's note is holding, yet insiders sold nearly $6 million of…
REMX, the VanEck Rare Earth and Strategic Metals ETF, heads into the week with an unusual split: short sellers are unwinding at speed, yet options traders are more defensively positioned than at any point in the past…
VOO just completed one of its sharpest sentiment reversals of the year: the extreme bullishness that briefly dominated options flow on Monday has already unwound, and the put/call ratio has snapped back almost as fast…
Tesla enters the final stretch of May having given back the week's gains and then some — down 6.8% over seven days to $404.11 — yet the bear case has not materially intensified. The most interesting tension is that the…
BNO enters the back half of May in a position that encapsulates a classic commodity-fund tension: the price is running hard while the shorts who crowded in during early May are quietly cutting their positions. The…
SCHG enters the final weeks of May with a curious split personality — short-side activity is rising fast while the broader ETF market pours money into the exact mega-cap growth names it holds. The positioning story is…
FTNT added another 12% this week, reaching $127.64 — a stock that has now risen 56% in a single month and continues to outpace every price target on Wall Street. The gap between price and analyst conviction has widened…
SGOL heads into the week of May 18 with a notable divergence: short positions are building rapidly even as the gold price and the ETF's shares have retreated sharply over the past month. The most striking move is in…
CLSK has staged a sharp recovery since the post-earnings selloff, yet the short side of the trade has barely flinched — and the tension between a 9% weekly gain and 34% short interest is the story heading into the…
Transocean has delivered one of the sharpest short-term recoveries in its peer group — up 14% on the week and 25% in a month — yet the short book has barely budged, keeping the tension between price and positioning…
WEN enters the week with short sellers back on the offensive — the May squeeze appears to have been a covering blip rather than a structural retreat. The short position has rebuilt with speed. After the Trian…
EIS, the iShares MSCI Israel ETF, enters the week with a modest repositioning underway — shorts that had been unwinding since late April made a small comeback on Tuesday, even as the ETF slipped 4% from last week's…
AYA enters the back half of May in a difficult position. Record revenue couldn't prevent an earnings miss. The stock fell nearly 22% on the week, even as fresh drill results emerged to remind the market why it bought…
GLD has suffered its sharpest weekly reversal in recent memory, dropping nearly 5% in a week to $411.50 — and the positioning data shows shorts are quietly rebuilding just as options traders have turned their most…
NetApp heads into its May 28 quarterly report with a curious split: the stock is up 15% over the past month, yet short sellers have been adding to their positions throughout the rally. Short interest tells a clearly…
