Trader notes, earnings previews, Confluences, weekly digests and roundups — long-form analysis grounded in ORTEX short interest, options flow and analyst data.
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SK hynix Inc. has fallen another 7% on the week to $143.73 — the third consecutive week of losses since the July 23 Q2 print — and the Street's first coordinated analyst coverage is landing into the decline rather than…
Intuitive Machines heads into its August 7 earnings report with its own insiders selling aggressively, short interest near a third of the float, and the stock down 42% in a month. The insider story is the hardest to…
CAT heads into its August 18 earnings date with short sellers adding positions at a pace that stands out even against a buoyant Australian software tape. Short interest has climbed relentlessly over the past six weeks,…
Palantir Technologies reported Q2 results on August 3 with the short unwind already complete — the real question now is whether the bears who covered into the print come back. The short-covering arc that prior notes…
SoundHound AI reports on August 5 with four days to go, and the structural picture has not broken: the short book has grown again, the borrow market remains completely sealed, and options traders are still leaning…
Hertz Global Holdings arrives at its August 6 earnings date with short sellers adding rather than covering, the borrow market still completely locked, and the Street cutting targets to levels that imply the stock has…
LFS closes out July essentially unchanged, with the stock at A$0.90 and a half-point weekly gain that barely registers — the real story heading into the August 21 earnings date is who owns the stock and what the…
The Fidelity U.S. Value ETF (FCUV) on the TSX presents a modestly unusual setup this week: a vanilla Canadian-listed ETF carrying a cost-to-borrow rate that has more than doubled in a week, against a backdrop of…
CHWY heads into its August 26 earnings date with an unusual tension: the stock is up 8% on the week, yet short sellers are rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months. Short interest has become the dominant…
CRM enters its August 26 earnings window on the back of its strongest monthly run in some time. The stock gained 11% on the week and 18% over the past month, closing at $275 in USD terms — a sharp recovery from what…
KORU has completed the move its lending market was threatening — availability has dropped to exactly 0%, the lending pool is fully exhausted, and short interest has more than doubled in a week while the ETF itself lost…
GRPN closes out the week before its August 6 earnings print at $27.58 — up 6.9% on the week and 14.6% over the past month — with a short base that has barely budged and a borrow market that remains almost entirely…
JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — enters the final stretch before its August 20 earnings with a notable shift in the ORTEX short score, even as the lending market remains structurally hostile to fresh borrow. The most…
WEN heads into its August 7 earnings print with short interest climbing again, options traders rotating toward calls, and a stock that clawed back 5.6% on the week — a setup where the bear camp and the calendar are now…
EchoStar reports on August 3 with short sellers still holding a meaningful position — but the six-week cover trade has fundamentally changed the character of that bet. The short-side story is one of retreat, not…
Valmont Industries enters August with an unusual problem: its closest peers are surging while it sits nearly 17% below where it traded a month ago. The stock closed Friday at $481.70, down about 1% on the week and…
Solstice Advanced Materials heads into its August 5 earnings event carrying a short interest position that has nearly tripled in a month — while the stock itself has shed a third of its value over the same period. The…
Paramount Skydance Corporation enters its August 3 earnings report with the stock off 19% over the past month, short sellers still pressing, and options markets notably less hedged than usual — an unusual combination…
Ralliant Corporation enters its August 11 earnings date in an unusual position: the Street just raised targets across the board, yet the stock has fallen 12% in a month and dropped nearly 6% this week alone. The…
BCAX enters its August 12 earnings event in an unusual position: short sellers have been cutting exposure even as the company's own executives took profits at the top. Short interest has dropped sharply — down 6.4% on…
