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TDIV — the First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund — closed the week at $105.96, up 1.1% on Wednesday but still down 0.8% on the week. That surface-level calm masks a striking build in short positions that…
Versus Systems heads into the final days of April with its lending market in sharp flux — short interest nearly doubled over the week even as a fresh partnership renewal dropped Wednesday morning. The short-side story…
American Tower Corporation posted a quiet week, gaining just over 1% to close at $178.19 on April 29. That tidy move, however, masks a more complicated setup heading into the company's May 20 earnings call — one where…
NMI Holdings reports Q1 2026 results after the close today — and the stock arrives at that moment with a quietly interesting setup: short sellers have been rebuilding positions over the past week while the stock has…
Schneider National reports Q1 2026 results today — and it walks into the print in meaningfully better shape than it did three months ago. The stock has climbed nearly 20% over the past month to $30.37, recovering…
Phillips 66 heads into its May 13 earnings date with the Street turning more constructive, shorts retreating at pace, and the stock clawing back most of a bruising April. The biggest structural shift this week is on…
Forum Energy Technologies walks into its Q1 earnings call on May 1 with an unusual split: short sellers have built positions at the fastest clip in months, yet options traders are leaning hard to the upside. The short…
SMH — the VanEck Semiconductor ETF — enters the last trading day of April in a striking position: a 33% one-month price surge has run straight into short interest that has expanded at almost the same pace. The price…
MARA Holdings heads into its May 5 earnings with shorts covering and options pointing toward calls — yet nearly 27% of the free float remains borrowed, and a fresh cluster of insider sales keeps the backdrop…
QXO heads into its May 5 earnings call with short sellers building positions at the fastest pace in months — and the options market growing noticeably more defensive. Short interest has become the dominant story here.…
Verastem heads into its May 7 Q1 earnings print with a heavily-shorted register, a freshly-launched commercial campaign, and options traders swinging from bullish to cautious — all in the same month. Short interest is…
Xcel Brands heads into its May 12 earnings date with shorts rebuilding sharply, a fresh asset sale adding corporate complexity, and a CEO whose recent trading tells a nuanced story. The clearest shift this week is in…
SXC reported Q1 2026 results this morning and the split verdict defines the week's story: revenue of $455.1M beat the $418.1M estimate by a wide margin, yet EPS came in at a loss of $0.05 against a consensus of $0.07…
CHEF headed into Tuesday's Q1 print with shorts nursing a rising position — and walked out up 18% in a single session, leaving those same bears deep underwater. The earnings beat was unambiguous. Chefs' Warehouse…
NGL Energy Partners has had a remarkable month — up 35% in 30 days and 12% in the past week alone, closing Wednesday at $16.27. The rally's engine is clear. In early April, NGL announced a $100 million unit repurchase…
Summit Hotel Properties heads into its Q1 2026 results — due after today's close — with the most interesting story not in the short book, but in the dramatic reversal of bearish positioning over the past month, while…
META reported Q1 results on April 29 to a Wall Street reception that split neatly in two — strong enough to keep bulls in place, but not strong enough to hold prior-year targets. The clearest post-earnings signal came…
Pacira BioSciences heads into its Q1 2026 earnings release — due after the close today — with two colliding stories: a meaningful short-covering wave over the past week, and an active proxy battle with a dissident…
ELD, the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund, presents an unusual split this week: shorts have rapidly unwound while the cost of borrowing the fund remains stubbornly high — a mismatch that defines the current…
TSLA heads into the final session of April with short sellers quietly adding positions even as the stock attempts to stabilise — a divergence from the post-earnings relief the bulls were hoping for. The most striking…
