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Trader NoteACT

ACT Borrow Market Tightens as Shorts Double in Six Weeks

Aduro Clean Technologies is drawing quietly escalating attention from short sellers, with the borrow market tightening sharply even as the stock edges higher — a tension worth watching on a micro-cap TSX name with…

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Trader NoteADNT

Adient shorts edge higher into August earnings

Adient heads into its August 5 earnings report with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions and options sentiment showing a notable shift in the past week. Short interest is the story worth watching here. Bears have…

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Trader NoteFNV

FNV Drops 7% in a Week — But the Selling Is Sector-Wide

Franco-Nevada is down 7% on the week to CAD 290.92, but the move looks more like a sector rotation than a stock-specific story. The peer group confirms the pattern. Osisko Royalties fell 8.2% over the same period,…

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Trader NoteWEGE3

WEG Heads Into Q2 Results With Bulls Firmly in Control

WEGE3 heads into its July 22 Q2 earnings release with shorts at near-zero levels, analyst consensus firmly bullish, and the stock up 7% over the past month — the tension this week is whether the valuation can absorb…

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Trader NoteMGM

Analysts Turn Constructive on MGM Ahead of July Earnings

MGM Resorts International heads into its July 29 Q1 results with the Street turning notably more constructive — even as the stock has barely moved and short sellers maintain a meaningful position. The analyst angle is…

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Trader NoteFRMI

FRMI Shorts Rebuild Fast as Analysts Cut Hard

FRMI has shed 18% in a single week — yet short sellers are adding exposure at the fastest monthly pace in its short history, even as the lending market remains wide open for new positions. Short interest has become the…

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Trader NoteDRTS

DRTS CFO Selling Into a 38% Rally

Alpha Tau Medical has spent the past month staging an impressive rally — and its own CFO has been selling into every uptick. The insider angle is the week's most telling signal. CFO Raphi Levy has executed at least ten…

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Trader NotePTCT

PTCT: Shorts Ease as Insiders Sell Into Strength

PTC Therapeutics heads into the week with a stock that has rallied 15% over the past month but shed 5.2% on Thursday, while the CTO cashed out more than $2 million at the highs — a combination that puts the bull…

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Trader NoteJLHL

JLHL Heads Into Earnings With Momentum Intact

Jupiter Life Line Hospitals Limited enters its July 17 earnings event riding a month of genuine price recovery, yet the week immediately before the print has been flat to soft — a setup that makes the upcoming result a…

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Trader NoteTLT

TLT Shorts Keep Shrinking as Borrow Pool Hits New Highs

TLT is telling a consistent story in July: short sellers are pulling back, and the borrowing market has never been more accommodating in recent memory. The borrow availability trend has continued well beyond where it…

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Trader NoteHOOD

HOOD: Analysts Chase the Rally While CEO Sells Into It

Robinhood Markets enters its July 29 earnings window with a sharp internal contradiction: the Street is racing to raise targets, while the CEO is selling stock at nearly every price point the rally has offered. The…

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Trader NoteBNY

BNY Mellon Heads Into Q2 Print With Momentum Building

BNY arrives at Tuesday's second-quarter earnings release in its best near-term shape in months, with the stock up 10% over the past month and institutional money continuing to flow in from multiple directions. The…

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Trader NoteOKLO

Oklo Founders Keep Selling as Borrow Loosens

OKLO has retraced to $49.27 this week — down 6% — yet the borrow market has done something unexpected: it has loosened meaningfully, reversing the tightening trend flagged in last week's note. The shift in availability…

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Trader NoteJSW

JSW Short Score Hits New High as Borrow Conditions Re-Tighten

JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — gave back last week's bounce, slipping 1.5% across five sessions to PLN 25.01, as the brief relief rally faded and the structural bear case reasserted itself through both price and…

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Trader NoteCURA

Curaleaf Slides 15% in a Month as Sector Selloff Deepens

CURA has lost 15% over the past month and nearly 10% in the past week alone, making it one of the sharper decliners in a cannabis peer group that is broadly under pressure — the question now is whether the stock is…

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