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NVDA director Mark Stevens disclosed $411m in share sales between August 31 and September 2, filed with the SEC on September 2. Stevens sold 1.85 million shares across multiple tranches, averaging around $222 per…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on several notable names in the past week, with the biggest moves concentrated in a handful of stocks already under stress. MMED (MiniMed Group) saw the sharpest increase among…
The week ending 30 September saw a sharp tilt toward equities and away from momentum-chasing strategies. $41.2B flowed into US-focused ETFs in a single week. That is the largest geography bucket by far, with a flow…
The chip trade dominates as Q3 books close. NVDA announced a $150 billion buyback — one of the largest in US history. Shares initially rallied then reversed, but options flow remains firmly bullish. MU reports Q4 2026…
Quarter-end arrives with semiconductors back in focus. NVDA leads positive options bets by volume over the past seven days. MU and AMD follow closely. All three sit with RSI readings in the high 50s to mid-60s —…
The final days of September bring a busy earnings slate. Three marquee names report before the week is out. MU leads the charge. Micron Technology drops its Q4 2026 results tomorrow, September 30, after the close. The…
Jefferies trimmed targets on two energy names today. EQT Corporation saw its price target cut to $73 from $75. Baker Hughes lost $3 of target, dropping to $77. Both kept their Buy ratings, but the moves signal caution…
The most notable fresh filing from the most recent reporting window: UBER's President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed disclosures showing he purchased $5.3 million worth of shares on September 4. The trades,…
Short sellers stepped up their bets on several notable names this week, with Lucid Group and Groupon among the biggest movers in short interest changes. LCID saw its SI % of free float jump from 50.6% to 58.1% in just…
Short sellers have left almost nothing in the lending pool. Availability on LCID has collapsed to 0.08% — fewer than one share available for every 1,200 already borrowed. That is the tightest the borrow market has been…
Why this matters: Short positions in HMC have climbed 37% in a week. At the same time, the company just posted its largest-ever August for two-wheeler sales in India. Bears and real-economy data are pointing in…
Why this matters: A convergence report on MSI ran here just two days ago. The signals have not reversed — they've deepened. The put-call ratio has pushed further into 52-week extreme territory, retail attention has…
Why this matters: Options traders are piling into protection on F at the same time real-economy data paints a deteriorating picture on the ground. Three distinct data streams now point the same direction. The put-call…
QVCG has fallen another 11% this week to $14.14, pushing GoldenTree Asset Management further into the red on a position it has been actively adding to — and the gap between activist conviction and market reality is…
Why this matters: Short sellers have abandoned nearly 5 million positions in VMRK over the past two weeks. Yet on the same day retail attention spiked to its highest reading in months, options traders flipped from…
Vivmark Residential enters the final week of September with an unusual split: options traders are suddenly much more defensive than they have been all year, even as short sellers have been cutting exposure at a notable…
Why this matters: Short interest in MNSO jumped 35% in a single week. Borrow availability has dropped into tight territory. At the same time, retail attention hit a multi-standard-deviation high. Three distinct signals…
JP Morgan just slashed its XPEV price target by 52% — from $24.00 to $11.50 — and downgraded the stock to Neutral from Overweight. The move lands as the lending market for XPeng shares sits at its tightest in a year.…
Why this matters: Yesterday's stock report noted a dramatic 40% collapse in Alphabet's short book on September 25. The latest data shows that unwind has partially reversed. Short interest is back above 87 million…
Bearish positioning in COP has collapsed over the past two weeks. Short interest is now at its lowest level since late August, cost to borrow has more than halved, and retail attention has just jumped 2.5 standard…
