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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SoFi Technologies reported third-quarter earnings on October 27 and jumped 13.4% in a single session to $16.40, yet short sellers have barely moved. Short interest ended the week at 18.1% of free float, roughly 218…
Short sellers added meaningfully to their CIFR positions this week, pushing bearish exposure to its highest recorded level even as the stock bounced 10% on Tuesday. Short interest reached 21.1% of the free float as of…
TBLA enters its November 4 earnings release carrying a quietly building short position, a stock price down nearly 18% from where analysts think it belongs, and a history of punishing post-results moves that will keep…
Seagate Technology Holdings reported fiscal Q1 results on October 27 and the stock closed up 3.7% to $667.85, clawing back some of the ground lost in a 27% monthly slide that began well above $900. The earnings bounce…
ULCC shares jumped 12.9% this week to $5.53, reversing last week's 12.2% decline almost entirely in a single move. That recovery came on the day earnings were reported, with tomorrow's event now confirmed on the…
Hayward Holdings reports Q3 results on October 29 with short interest at a six-week high, options traders leaning heavily toward calls, and Goldman Sachs having cut its target just three weeks ago, a setup where the…
AppLovin slipped 3.5% across the past week, roughly in line with its closest peers but extending a brutal 15% decline over the past month, and the question heading into its November 4 earnings is whether a lightly…
Shoals Technologies Group arrives at its November 4 earnings report in a different configuration than it held nine days ago: shorts are pulling back, options have shifted toward calls, and analysts are cutting targets…
Expand Energy Corporation now has 12.56 million shares borrowed against it, the highest level in at least a year, built up over six weeks of near-continuous accumulation that has pushed short interest to 5.27% of the…
CTO Realty Growth reported earnings on October 28 with the most notable move already behind it: short sellers had largely cleared the decks before the print, leaving the stock to trade the fundamental story on its…
MP Materials heads into its November 5 earnings report with one of the tightest short positions in the market, a 9% single-day price surge, and a borrow market so dry it has run at zero availability for weeks. The…
PROG Holdings enters its October 28 earnings print with short sellers pulling back and a Street consensus that remains unanimously bullish, even as the stock has slid 9% over the past month to $29.61. The positioning…
Array Technologies enters its November 5 earnings print with short interest at its highest level in the recent rebuild, passive index selling looming on two separate timelines, and options traders still positioned as…
Palantir Technologies enters its November 2 earnings with short sellers rebuilding positions at a measured but steady pace, even as the stock added 3.2% on the week to close at $198.73, lagging a peer group whose…
People Incorporated reports Q3 results on November 3, and the stock is arriving at that date under pressure: down 5.2% on the week to $37.29, carrying the highest short position in at least a year, and drawing an…
STLAM reported Q3 results today with the stock already down more than 59% year-to-date, and the lending market confirms shorts have been rebuilding quietly even as the price has collapsed. The positioning picture is…
Short positions in JEPI, JPMorgan's $45.9 billion equity premium income ETF, rose 16% in a single week to reach their highest level in at least a year, a move that is 1.7 standard deviations above the fund's typical…
SGOV, the iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF, enters the final days of October with short sellers pulling back sharply and the borrow market sitting at its loosest in weeks. The clearest story this week is the retreat…
Otis Worldwide heads into the post-earnings period with a notable reversal in short positioning, as the bearish build that preceded Tuesday's print has begun to unwind. Short interest has pulled back from the one-year…
Vertiv Holdings closed Tuesday at $208.56, up 4.4% on the day and 2.5% on the week, a partial recovery from the steep post-earnings sell-off that took the stock down roughly 18% in October, yet options positioning…
