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LMAT Shorts Climb as Options Hit 52-Week Skew Peak

LeMaitre Vascular heads into the post-earnings stretch with short sellers rebuilding positions and options traders running their most defensively positioned in a year — a notable combination for a stock that just…

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XPEL Shorts Stay Elevated as Stock Recovers

XPEL is heading into its next earnings report with a meaningful short position still in place, even as the stock has bounced hard — a setup that puts longs and shorts on a direct collision course. The short position…

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Leidos Drops 8% After Earnings Beat — Street Cuts Targets

Leidos Holdings just delivered one of the more perplexing post-earnings moves of the season: strong Q1 results, raised full-year guidance, and an 8% single-day sell-off that pushed the stock to a fresh one-year…

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Avis Budget shorts retreat as the squeeze unwinds

CAR enters its May 20 earnings window in a very different posture than it held three weeks ago — and the speed of the reversal is the story. Short interest has collapsed. From a peak of roughly 27% of the free float in…

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ATEC analysts slash targets after earnings

Alphatec Holdings reported earnings on May 5 and walked into a wall of target-price cuts — the stock climbed 9.4% on the week despite the downgrades, creating one of the more striking bull-bear tensions in the med-tech…

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Mastercard slips post-earnings as Street trims targets

Mastercard enters the first full week of May carrying two distinct weights: a 5.7% single-day drop from its April 30 Q1 earnings print, and a cluster of analyst target cuts that followed immediately after. The stock…

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QTEC shorts rebuild as tech ETF stages a 26% monthly surge

QTEC enters the first week of May in a striking position: short sellers have been aggressively adding exposure into one of the sharpest one-month rallies the First Trust NASDAQ-100 Technology Sector Index Fund has seen…

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QQEW Options Sentiment Flips Bullish as Shorts Retreat

QQEW, the First Trust Nasdaq-100 Equal Weight ETF, closed at $140.17 on May 5 — up 2.8% on the week and nearly 10% over the past month — at the same time that options positioning has made a sharp pivot toward the…

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FPX Shorts Retreat as Options Traders Turn Bullish

FPX — the First Trust US Equity Opportunities ETF — is closing the week at $188.60, up over 7% in five sessions and nearly 16% over the past month. What makes the setup striking is not the rally itself but what the…

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HTGC Borrow Seizes Up as Earnings Land and Legal Clock Ticks

Hercules Capital enters the post-earnings session with the most crowded lending market of the past year — every share in the borrow pool is now spoken for, and shorts are paying sharply more for the privilege. The…

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Europe ETF Shorts Double as Options Traders Turn Defensive

VGK — the Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF — carries a striking split right now. Short interest has nearly doubled over the past month while the ETF itself gained 4.4%. Bearish positioning and rising prices are moving in…

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Samsung's $1 Trillion Moment Signals a KOSPI Re-rating

A005930 has just notched one of its most striking weeks in years, surging nearly 13% on May 6 alone as the KOSPI broke through 7,300 and Samsung reclaimed a $1 trillion market cap. The price tells the whole story: the…

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