Trader notes, earnings previews, Confluences, weekly digests and roundups — long-form analysis grounded in ORTEX short interest, options flow and analyst data.
Trader Note — 15010 total
CHWY survived its Q1 2026 earnings event with a modest gain, yet the short book has barely flinched — leaving the stock in an unusual post-earnings limbo where the bears refused to cover and the Street is still…
POET Technologies now trades at $8.31 — down 5% on the week and 23% over the past month — with short interest entrenched above 20% of the free float and a borrow market that is telling a more complicated story than the…
NKE bounced 6.7% after its June 30 earnings print, yet the stock has barely moved over the past month — a tension that tells you how much repair work remains for the brand. The most meaningful data point this week is…
CRWV enters the week of July 12 with short interest still accelerating — but the borrow market sending a contradictory signal that makes this setup genuinely interesting. The short rebuild that began in early July has…
USO has gained 4.5% on the week to $108.70, but the short-covering story that dominated the previous note has hit a pause — and the options market is now telling a meaningfully different story about where sentiment is…
ROKU trades at $140.69 with a July 31 earnings date approaching, and the most striking development this week is not in the short book — it is the drumbeat of insider selling even as the stock holds near a 16% monthly…
FRMI is caught in a rare split: short sellers are pressing harder into a falling stock while options traders refuse to buy the bearish narrative. The short side continues to build at an unusually aggressive pace. SI %…
Firefly Aerospace heads into the week of July 11 with an uncomfortable combination: a stock down 17% in five sessions, short interest at a 30-day high, and a Street that still carries a consensus buy rating with…
Robinhood Markets heads into its July 29 earnings report with two narratives running in opposite directions — one driven by the most bullish analyst setup in the market, the other by a CEO who sold aggressively into…
OSCR is navigating a tricky post-rally moment — a 12% monthly surge now fading, a CEO who cashed out $100 million near the top, and short sellers quietly adding to positions as the stock retreats. The short interest…
Medtronic heads into its August 18 earnings date with a notable split on the Street — analysts cutting price targets yet maintaining positive ratings — while options traders are becoming more defensive than they have…
Perrigo Company plc enters the week of August earnings with short sellers entrenched, the stock still falling, and the borrow market sending a quieter signal than last week's surge might have implied. The short…
Steadfast Group heads into the back half of July carrying one of the more striking month-on-month repositioning stories in the Australian insurance space — a stock up 31% in a month while short sellers beat a rapid…
PTC Therapeutics enters the back half of July with a split personality — options traders are running one of the most bullish positioning profiles of the past year, while C-suite executives just pocketed $2.2 million at…
CPRI enters the week of August earnings season with an awkward setup: short sellers have been quietly trimming positions over the past month, yet the stock has still lost ground, closing at $18.04 after a 5% weekly…
BNY enters its July 15 second-quarter earnings release with the stock up 10% over the past month and the recent operational story still running in the bulls' favour. The earnings print is four days away, and the…
Jazz Pharmaceuticals heads into August earnings with short sellers rebuilding positions and the entire C-suite selling stock — a twin pressure point that makes the current $243.82 price more contested than the flat…
China Overseas Grand Oceans Group (81) heads into the second half of July with a notable divergence: shorts have quietly rebuilt their position through June while the stock has shed 17% over the past month, yet the…
TLT is deepening the same trend that defined last week: short sellers are steadily unwinding, the borrow market is extraordinarily loose, and the ORTEX short score is at its lowest point in over a month. The short…
Stanley Black & Decker slipped 4% on the week to close at $88.22, reversing a portion of the 10% one-month rally and arriving at earnings in three weeks with the options market still remarkably relaxed. The positioning…
