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SailPoint: Options Hedge Up, Shorts Unwinding

SailPoint heads into its June 4 earnings date at an unusual inflection point — options traders have grown sharply more defensive over the past two weeks, even as the short interest that dominated the stock through…

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BGM Group: Shorts Retreat Sharply as Borrow Costs Edge Higher

BGM Group enters the second week of May with a striking reversal in short positioning — borrowed shares have collapsed by nearly 70% over the past month, even as the cost of borrowing ticks up to a one-month high. The…

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Trader NoteMSGY

MSGY Borrow Cost Bites Despite Easing Shorts

Masonglory Limited heads into the back half of May with a striking contradiction at its core: short interest has fallen sharply over the past month, yet borrowing the stock remains extraordinarily expensive. The…

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Trader NoteFMFC

FMFC: Costly Borrow, Ample Supply — A Micro-Cap Paradox

FMFC, the Nasdaq-listed Kandal M Venture Limited, is trading with a striking disconnect between its borrow cost and actual short positioning — the kind of setup that makes a $6 million micro-cap worth a closer…

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Trader NoteOFAL

OFAL Short Score Jumps as Shorts Double Down

OFA Group has had a turbulent week — the stock fell nearly 7% over five sessions to $0.71, even as its short score surged to the highest level in recent data, signalling a sharp shift in bearish sentiment against the…

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SOBO Shorts Pile In Around Q1 Earnings Miss

South Bow Corporation heads into the post-earnings week with short sellers having made their most aggressive move in months — just as the company delivered a quarterly result that gave them reason to stay. Short…

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Trader NoteHPAI

HPAI Shorts Rebuild as Stock Loses a Third in a Week

HPAI enters the weekend having shed 33% over five sessions — a collapse that draws attention not to crowded shorts but to a lending market that is quietly loosening after months of extreme tightness. The most striking…

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XHLD borrow cost jumps as shorts retreat

XHLD heads into the week with an unusual split: short sellers have been cutting positions aggressively for over a month, yet the cost of borrowing shares has surged back toward its recent range. The core tension is in…

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Trader NoteSDST

SDST Shorts Retreat as Equity Raise Looms

Stardust Power heads into its May 14 earnings event with a freshly announced dilution and short sellers quietly unwinding — a combination that frames the week's tension cleanly. The most immediate catalyst is the $5…

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Trader NoteINBX

INBX shorts trapped as stock doubles — earnings next week

INBX has done something remarkable in the past month: it has more than doubled, rising 115% to $134.35 while carrying more than a quarter of its free float in short positions. That combination — a heavily shorted…

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DJT shorts rebuild as options traders grow more bullish

DJT heads into the final stretch of the week having shed nearly 5% over five sessions to close at $8.93 — but the more interesting tension is not in the price, it's in the structural divergence between a short base…

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GCTS shorts hold firm as stock rallies into earnings

GCT Semiconductor heads into its May 12 earnings report with a classic tension: the stock is up 33% in a month, shorts haven't flinched, and the last time the company reported, the stock fell more than 10%. Short…

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Trader NoteSELX.F

SELX Crashes 39% as Borrow Market Tightens Hard

SELX, the Nasdaq-listed Semilux International, has shed nearly 40% in a single week — dropping to $0.24 — while its borrow market tightens to levels that make new short positions increasingly expensive to…

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MASK: 562% Borrow Cost With Zero Shares Left

MASK, the Nasdaq-listed micro-cap formerly known as 3 E Network Technology Group, is one of the most extreme borrow markets on the exchange right now — a 150% weekly price surge, a cost to borrow above 560%, and zero…

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Trader NoteGCDT

GCDT: A Micro-Cap with a Short Squeeze in Its Past

Green Circle Decarbonize Technology has spent the past month building a short position from near-zero — and that reversal in sentiment is the most notable thing about this stock right now. Short interest has tripled…

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Trader NoteITOC

ITOC Borrow Costs Collapse Even as Shorts Rebuild

iTonic Holdings enters the week carrying a notable split personality: short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions while the cost of borrowing stock has fallen sharply from extreme levels — a combination that…

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SPPL Short Interest Explodes 16x in a Month

Simpple Ltd. enters the week with one of the most dramatic short-interest builds in the small-cap universe — a near-vertical climb from near-zero to 1.9% of free float in just four weeks, against a stock that has…

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SERV shorts stay elevated with earnings four days away

Serve Robotics heads into its May 13 earnings call with nearly 30% of its free float bet against it, the borrow market fully tapped out, and options traders rotating toward calls — a contradictory setup that makes the…

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