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ACV Auctions heads into the week with a fresh analyst downgrade landing on the same day shorts are accelerating — the two most bearish signals it has faced simultaneously since early August. The headline on Thursday…
KR heads into its Q3 earnings print on September 15 with short interest climbing sharply and options traders more defensive than they've been in months — a charged setup for a stock already under analyst pressure. The…
Micron Technology has given back ground this week, slipping 4.4% on Thursday after a strong month — and with the September 30 earnings date closing in, the question is whether last week's record-breaking momentum can…
Nebius Group enters the week with a sharply changed short-side story — a 15% single-week drop in short interest marks a decisive renewal of the covering trend that had stalled through early September, and it arrives…
MDV has snapped back to a fully exhausted borrow market after a brief window of relief last week — and with earnings less than three weeks away, the squeeze dynamic has reset to its most extreme level. The brief easing…
ASST — Strive, Inc. — has doubled its share price in a month while shorts quietly rebuild and the borrow market has gone completely dry, creating one of the more charged setups in the small-cap space right now. The…
Rezolve AI heads into the week with its most expensive borrow market in over a month — and a short position that has now grown for ten consecutive sessions since the September 1 earnings shock. The borrow story is the…
Hertz dropped another 9.7% on the week to $2.05, and the short position just made its biggest one-day jump in months — a combination that sharpens the tension between a still-frozen lending market and a stock that has…
ADBE has just passed its September 10 earnings event and the market's verdict is already visible in the tape: down 1.8% on the day and 12.2% across the past week, the stock is processing whatever the print delivered…
NVIDIA has given up ground this week, but the pullback looks more like a pause in a crowded one-way tape than a reversal of the post-earnings trend. The stock slipped 3.6% on the week and another 1.9% in Thursday's…
Skyworks Solutions enters the week in a peculiar position: the stock is up 17.5% in five sessions and 22% over the past month, yet short interest has climbed sharply alongside it — a combination that makes the borrow…
Bearish options flow is clustering in chips. NVDA leads on negative bets volume this week. MU — up 242% year-to-date — carries the highest bearish options count among large caps. Profit-takers are hedging hard. INTC…
Options traders are loading up on defensive plays. Semiconductor and crypto names dominate the negative bets leaderboard this week, according to ORTEX data. NVDA leads on raw negative options volume over the past seven…
Scotiabank delivered the day's boldest call. The bank raised its target on TRGP from $257 to $314 — a 22% lift — while keeping a Buy rating. Targa Resources is a $62.6 billion midstream giant with short interest of…
Bill Gates has been on a buying spree. Filings disclosed between September 1 and 3 show he spent $241M picking up over 1 million shares of RSG across six days in late August and early September. The purchases were made…
Short sellers have been busy this week. Several names saw dramatic short interest jumps in just five days — and a few carry serious squeeze risk. CHWY tops the momentum table with SI % FF jumping to 63.6%, up 12…
Fixed income grabbed the week's biggest inflow. $11.0B flowed into bond ETFs in the past seven days. That stands in sharp contrast to the 3-month picture, where equities dominated with a $668B net inflow. The…
Why this matters: Owens Corning has shed 17% over the past month. Yet options traders are now buying calls at the most aggressive pace in months. That divergence between price action and positioning is the sharpest…
JP Morgan downgraded ATO to Neutral this morning. The bank slashed its price target to $180 from $198 — still 9% above Wednesday's close of $164.81, but the direction of travel is clear. The move caps a rough stretch…
August CPI came in at 0.4% month-on-month and 3.4% year-on-year, matching expectations. Futures on the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all ticked higher on the print. The in-line read keeps the door open for a Fed cut later…
