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Trader Note — 15010 total
XLV, the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF, has snapped back from last week's selloff — and this time, the short position is moving with it. The reversal from last week is striking. Seven days ago this note flagged…
XLB has settled into a holding pattern — short interest remains heavy at 24.4% of free float, but the borrow market's wildest days appear to be behind it, at least for now. The previous note flagged a sharp retreat…
SPY closes the week of July 20 in an awkward middle ground: short sellers who rebuilt positions on the Iran escalation are neither adding nor covering meaningfully, while options traders have nudged back toward…
RSP, the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF, heads into the final stretch of July with a notable disconnect: short interest has climbed steadily over the past month while options traders have turned meaningfully less…
IWM short sellers extended their retreat for a third consecutive week — short interest has now dropped to 26.2% of the free float, the lowest reading since early May, yet bears still hold one of the heaviest positions…
SOXX posted its best single day in weeks on Tuesday, jumping 5.4% to $552.69 — yet the shorts who rebuilt aggressively through late June and early July have barely flinched. The short interest story here is the…
ILF, the iShares Latin America 40 ETF, is sitting at an unusual crossroads this week — short interest has exploded off a near-zero base, yet the borrow market remains so loose that bears face almost no friction…
The bullish options rotation flagged in last week's note has intensified — the put/call ratio on OEF has now dropped to its most call-skewed reading in over a year. Options positioning has moved further in the same…
EWW, the iShares MSCI Mexico ETF, enters the back half of July with bears growing more committed — short interest has climbed nearly 60% over the past month while borrowing costs have almost doubled, a combination that…
EWG, the iShares MSCI Germany ETF, enters the second half of July with its lending market at maximum tightness — a structural shift that happened almost overnight and deserves attention from anyone with a view on…
Short sellers have been piling into EWT at the fastest pace in months — even as the ETF bounced sharply on Tuesday — creating one of the more interesting divergences in the Taiwan equity space this week. Short interest…
EWC — the iShares MSCI Canada ETF — has settled into a holding pattern this week, with short positioning broadly flat and the lending market offering no meaningful friction for bears or bulls. The short interest story…
DIA has reached a new extreme: the lending pool is completely exhausted, and the oscillation documented over the past two weeks has resolved — at least momentarily — into the tightest borrow conditions seen all…
SmartFinancial, Inc. has cleared its Q2 hurdle, and the immediate question is whether the analyst community is finally repricing a stock that insider buyers flagged weeks ago. The analyst angle is the sharpest new…
Webster Financial emerges from its Q2 earnings event with short sellers unwinding positions and options traders making the sharpest pivot toward bullish positioning seen in weeks — a dramatic reversal from the…
Valmont Industries delivered its Q2 results and the market's verdict was swift: the stock fell 7% on the week to $505.35, erasing a chunk of its strong year-to-date run, even as the Street's conviction behind the name…
Zions Bancorporation is down nearly 4% to $69.05 after reporting Q2 results on July 20 — and the post-print reaction has sharpened the debate between a Street that broadly lifted targets and a market that sold the news…
WTFC has pulled back sharply after its Q2 print, but the analyst community and borrow market are both telling a calmer story than the price action suggests. The stock closed Tuesday at $158.93, down 2.9% on the day and…
WGO heads into the back half of July with a striking contradiction at its core: short interest has climbed 44% in a single month while the stock itself has rallied nearly 5% on the week. The short-side buildup is the…
Williams Companies heads into its July 30 earnings call with the Street firmly in the bull camp, borrow conditions among the loosest in the sector, and options traders more bullish than usual — yet the stock has just…
