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Market Commentary

Analysts Back AppLovin, Trim Kroger Targets

Wall Street upgraded APP this week. An analyst moved AppLovin to a Buy. The stock carries a near-$100 billion market cap. The consensus average target stands at $508. ADBE also attracted fresh attention. Analysts…

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Market Commentary

Bears Flee GME as Fresh Targets Draw Fire

Short sellers made dramatic moves this week. GameStop saw the biggest retreat — SI % of Free Float collapsed from 10.3% to just 1.1% in seven days. Ryan Cohen's reported $20M purchase appears to have spooked bears into…

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Market Commentary

Bonds Lead, But Equities Hold Ground

Fixed income is absorbing the most cash right now. Bond ETFs pulled in a net $22.2B last week, with a flow imbalance of 74.8 — clear buying pressure. Equities added $7.2B over the same period. Over three months, the…

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Market Commentary

Bears, Bulls, and a $411M NVDA Dump: Friday Wrap

The biggest insider story of the week centres on NVIDIA. Director Mark A. Stevens filed $411M in open-market sales between August 31 and September 2. No 10b5-1 pre-planned sale flag was attached. General Counsel…

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Trader NoteGME

GME: Cohen Buys $20M, Bears Exit — Stock Finds New Floor

GameStop enters the post-earnings period in genuinely unfamiliar territory: the short book has all but vanished, the CEO just made the largest open-market insider purchase in recent memory, and the stock is holding…

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Trader NoteBTRW

BTRW Results Day Looms as Sector Sell-Off Deepens

BTRW heads into its September 16 results with four straight weeks of losses behind it and every major UK housebuilder peer in retreat — the question is whether the print can shift the narrative or simply confirm what…

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Trader NotePRU

Perseus Mining: Valuation Cheap, Earnings Catalyst Ahead

PRU heads into the final weeks before its October 22 earnings date with a stock that has pulled back sharply from its August highs, a valuation running at a meaningful discount to analyst consensus, and institutional…

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Trader NoteQVCG

GoldenTree Goes Activist on QVCG as Silver Point Exits

QVCG is at the centre of a significant ownership reshuffle, with GoldenTree Asset Management pressing its activist case just as Silver Point Capital appears to be unwinding its stake — a divergence that tells sharply…

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Trader NoteOIO

OIO Group Bucks a Red Week While Shorts Cover Hard

OIO Group has had a striking week — the stock up 13% while short sellers retreated at pace and borrowing costs held near 60%, a combination that tells a pointed story about positioning in a tiny, illiquid name. The…

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Trader NoteDINO

DINO shorts rebuild as the Street scrambles to catch up

HF Sinclair enters the week with an unusual split: the stock has rallied 26% in a month, yet short sellers just added to positions at the fastest pace of the past 30 days — a tension that makes this one of the more…

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Trader NoteZETA

ZETA Shorts Rebuild as Peers Slide

Zeta Global Holdings heads into the back half of September with a split signal: short sellers quietly rebuilt positions this week even as the broader software sector took heavy damage around it. The short-interest…

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Trader NoteALKT

ALKT turns the corner as activists tighten their grip

Alkami Technology enters the week with a sharply different complexion than it wore through the summer — shorts are retreating, options traders are bullish, and two activists are building positions even as the stock…

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Trader NoteOLMA

Olema Shorts Stay Elevated as Pipeline Verdict Looms

OLMA heads into the autumn with one of the most heavily shorted profiles in clinical-stage biotech and a stock that has lost nearly 5% in a week, testing bulls whose conviction rests entirely on a single Phase 3…

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Trader NoteCRWD

CrowdStrike's Post-Earnings Drift Tests the Bull Case

CRWD enters the back half of September carrying the weight of a 7% slide over the past month — a sharp reversal after a blowout August earnings print that sent the stock 23% higher in a single day. The tension this…

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Trader NoteSIBN

SIBN Shorts Creep Higher as Analysts Hold Their Buy Flags

SI-BONE heads into the back half of September with short sellers quietly adding pressure on a stock that has lost ground for three consecutive months, even as every analyst with a published rating is telling clients to…

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Trader NoteSRRK

SRRK: Shorts Rebuilding, but Street Still Sees Upside

Scholar Rock heads into the back half of 2026 with an unusual tension: short interest is quietly climbing toward its highest level of the year, yet the Street remains uniformly bullish and an activist investor holds a…

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