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Cadence Design Systems enters the back half of June with a quietly constructive setup: short sellers have been paring positions all month, the Street has been raising targets, and options positioning is only mildly…
BrightSpire Capital heads into its July 29 earnings with short sellers quietly reducing exposure and the lending market offering no friction whatsoever to either side. The short-selling story here is one of steady…
A137400 heads into the back half of June with its stock down roughly 11% over the past month and the borrow market quietly tightening — a combination worth watching even if the short-selling pressure remains modest in…
Sumitomo Corporation enters the week carrying a sharp one-month loss even as short sellers show little interest in pressing the trade. The stock closed at ¥6,435 on June 19, down 10.8% over the past month, though it…
MRL is moving in the opposite direction to nearly every correlated peer this week — a quiet but notable divergence for a stock now trading within touching distance of its 52-week high. The price story is…
MUU, the Direxion Daily MU Bull 2X ETF, has delivered one of the more striking runs on Nasdaq this month — up 144% over 30 days and another 26% in the past week alone — while simultaneously attracting a short position…
Cipher Digital just delivered its strongest weekly gain in months — and the people running the company sold into every dollar of it. The insider activity this week is the standout signal. On June 16, four executives…
LFS enters the week in an unusual position — two independent directors stepped in to buy shares in late April while the stock trades nearly 20% below where the CEO was selling last September, creating a quiet but…
Hims & Hers Health has gone from one of the most compressed, short-heavy setups in health care to a week-long short squeeze in everything but name — the stock is up 23% on the week and 59% in a month, and the bears who…
MTSI has added another 4.4% this week to close at $391.41 — now trading within touching distance of the analyst consensus target of $398, a gap that frames the next leg of the thesis neatly. The stock's rise has been…
SoundHound AI enters the week with its first meaningful short covering in months — yet the lending market remains as tight as it has been all year, creating an unusual split between what shorts are doing and what the…
Butterfly Network has staged one of the more violent short-term rallies in the health care equipment space, gaining 56% in a single week and 132% over the past month to close at $8.90 — yet the short sellers have…
IonQ reported earnings on June 16 and fell 10.6% on the day — and the week after the print tells a story of short sellers quietly rebuilding positions into the weakness. The borrow market has tightened since the…
RUM is heading into the post-earnings period with a meaningful shift in its lending dynamics — borrow costs have halved since May, shorts have trimmed modestly, but the underlying bearish structure remains one of the…
CBRS heads into the week of June 16 carrying an uncomfortable split: options traders are growing more optimistic, the lending market has never been tighter, and the stock is down 24% over the past month. The most…
Palantir Technologies has clawed back ground this week, up 0.9% to $133.25, but the recovery looks tentative against a peer group that has sold off harder — and one analyst just broke ranks to end a bearish call. The…
SATS enters the back half of June with an unfamiliar dynamic: the stock is falling, but the data behind it tells a story of disengaged bears and a valuation that is quietly compressing. The price action is the headline…
Ondas Inc. is caught in a tightening vice: the borrow market has locked up completely for the second time in a month, short interest is grinding toward 44% of the float, and the CEO recently sold $32 million worth of…
MARA reports Q1 results tomorrow — June 18 — with the borrow market continuing to ease even as short interest stays near cycle highs, and options traders leaning more bullish than at any point in the past year. Since…
GRPN gained 3.9% on the week to close at $17.26 — a second consecutive week of recovery — yet the most telling development isn't the price, it's a meaningful shift in the borrow market that deserves careful…
