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Short sellers have moved aggressively into ELV over the past month, even as the broader lithium peer group posts its own weekly losses, creating a stock-specific pressure story that stands apart from sector noise. The…
Celanese enters October with a stock near multi-year lows, a cluster of insider purchases at current prices, and short sellers adding back positions they cut aggressively through August. The tension between those two…
Digital Realty Trust heads into its October 29 earnings report with a curious split: the stock has lost nearly 5% over the past week, yet both short sellers and options traders have grown less bearish, not more. The…
FXI, the iShares China Large-Cap ETF, heads into the end of September with bears continuing their slow withdrawal from what was, just six weeks ago, one of the most extreme short positions in the ETF market. The…
GOOGL heads into the final trading day of September down 2.9% on the week, at $340.92, with short interest rebuilt at elevated levels and options traders leaning more bullish than they have in a year. The short book…
WLK enters the final stretch of Q3 with a stock down 16% over the past month, a consensus price target sitting well above the current price, and a flurry of analyst cuts that signal the Street is still working through…
Salesforce closes out September with short sellers reversing course sharply, erasing the covering trend noted just a week ago and pushing the stock to its worst monthly performance in recent memory. The short rebuild…
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals heads into its October 29 earnings report with short interest climbing steadily for the past month and the Street divided on where the stock goes next, while the company trades roughly a third…
Cytokinetics closed the week at $65.64, barely off a month where the stock has shed nearly 9% and sits roughly 40% below where the analyst consensus thinks it should be trading. The gap between price and conviction is…
First Horizon Corporation enters its October 14 earnings call with short interest climbing and analysts trimming targets, even as the borrow market remains almost entirely unconstrained. The most striking development…
The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son heads into Q3 earnings season with an unusual tension: retail attention at a multi-month high, yet the CEO sold more than $12.7 million in stock last month without a pre-planned…
SPY closes the final session of Q3 at $764.20, down 1.2% on the week, as the short rebuild documented in Monday's note consolidates rather than accelerates. The short interest story has stabilised at elevated levels.…
SOXX closed the week down 0.9% at $567.44, but the more interesting story is what's happening beneath the surface: short sellers are quietly rebuilding positions even as the ETF trades 11.6% higher than a month…
SHY, the iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF, enters the final day of September with its lending market at its tightest point in at least a year, even as short interest falls and options positioning turns notably less…
The most striking development in IEF this week is not the price move but the positioning shift underneath it: short interest has climbed more than 42% over the past month while the ETF itself has fallen nearly 4%, a…
TLT enters the end of September with the bear trade that reignited so forcefully earlier this week already losing momentum. Five days ago, ORTEX data showed short interest hitting 112.8 million shares and borrow costs…
EWY, the iShares MSCI South Korea ETF, heads into October with a notable shift in its short positioning: bears who piled in hard through late August have spent the past month covering at pace, even as options traders…
The bullish signal that defined last week's note on DIA has faded. Options traders have pulled back from their most call-heavy positioning in a year, short interest has begun a modest recovery, and the ETF has shed…
Cavco Industries enters its fiscal fourth quarter with a fresh analyst catalyst and a borrow market that remains relaxed, even as short interest inches higher and options traders lean bullish relative to recent…
FormFactor enters October with a notable divergence: the stock has surged 34% over the past month to $136.25, yet the Street's consensus target sits barely above the current price, and a major new voice just arrived…
