Trader notes, earnings previews, Confluences, weekly digests and roundups — long-form analysis grounded in ORTEX short interest, options flow and analyst data.
Trader Note — 15010 total
SharkNinja enters its August 5 earnings report in an unusual position: the stock is up 8% on the week and 10% over the past month, shorts are quietly retreating, and nearly every analyst who has touched the name in…
GE HealthCare Technologies heads into its Q2 earnings release with an unusual tension: short sellers have been piling in at the fastest pace in months, yet the stock just posted its best daily gain of the week and the…
FTAI Aviation has now printed earnings and the stock at $212.47 is still 18% below its one-month high — the report didn't reset the debate, and the data after the release looks much like it did before. Short interest…
DC heads into its August 7 earnings report with a contradictory setup: shorts are actively covering even as options traders pile into the most defensively skewed position of the past year. The options market is the…
DAVE enters its August 4 earnings report carrying a genuine tension: the stock is up 16.5% over the past month and has rallied hard all year, yet options traders are hedging at the most defensive level they have…
Franklin BSP Realty Trust heads into its Q2 earnings print — scheduled for tomorrow morning — with short interest at its highest level in months and the stock down 6% over the past four weeks. The short-side story is…
Robinhood Markets closed Tuesday's session at $92.76 — down 13% on the week and another 3% on the day — as earnings arrived and the gap between analyst optimism and market reality snapped shut rather than closed…
Aurora Innovation has just reported results with shorts partially rebuilding after last week's pre-earnings retreat — the key question now is whether that covering was a temporary pause or a genuine change in…
Seagate Technology Holdings delivered its quarterly results on July 28-29, and the aftermath laid bare a striking disconnect: nearly every analyst raised their price target the morning after, yet the stock closed at…
ULCC heads into its August 3 earnings call with options traders at their most defensive in at least a year — and that diverges sharply from a short-selling base that has quietly been trimming. The options story is the…
Alkami Technology heads into the post-earnings week with its most interesting tension sitting not in the options market or the lending pool, but in the gap between a heavyweight backer doubling down and a short base…
COUR just delivered its July 29 earnings print with the most heavily-loaded short positioning the stock has seen in months — and the question now shifts from whether bears were right to whether they cover. The short…
Coinbase Global reports Q2 results after the close on July 30, and the week's most important development is a small but clear reversal in the short-covering trend that dominated the prior two notes. Short interest…
Hims & Hers Health arrives at its August 3 earnings report with a week of contradictory signals: short interest nudged back up, the stock shed 10% in five sessions, yet the borrow market is quietly loosening and…
Rush Street Interactive enters the week after earnings with an unusual divergence at its core: the Street just raised targets in unison, short sellers are quietly stepping back, and yet the stock fell nearly 9% on the…
Petco Health and Wellness heads into its late-August earnings window with short sellers quietly retreating and the borrow market loosening — a less hostile setup than the stock has worn for much of 2026. The clearest…
MP Materials heads into its August 6 earnings print down 23% over the past month, with options traders registering their most defensive posture in nearly a year. The options signal is the starkest read this week. The…
MediaAlpha enters its August 3 earnings report having underperformed a broadly stronger tape — and the insider register has been busy on the sell side throughout. The most striking feature of the past two weeks is the…
Palantir Technologies heads into Monday's August 3 earnings report with short sellers accelerating their retreat and the stock absorbing a sharp 7% weekly decline — the two sides of the trade moving in the same…
Dyne Therapeutics enters the final stretch before its August 10 earnings report with the stock up 9% on the week — yet the defensive positioning that defined last week's note has shifted rather than resolved. The most…
