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Trader NoteIRON

IRON Options Turn Cautious as Analysts Lift Targets

Disc Medicine enters September with a fresh analyst upgrade pulling in one direction and options traders turning more defensive than they've been in weeks — an unusual split for a biotech that has barely moved on the…

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Trader NoteOABI

OmniAb's Post-Earnings Surge Meets Rising Short Bets

OABI enters September at a fragile junction — a stock that nearly doubled in a month now faces growing short-side pressure and a cost-to-borrow spike, even as the analyst consensus remains firmly bullish. The most…

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Trader NoteDSGR

DSGR: Trading Near a Buyout Floor With Shorts in Retreat

DSGR enters September with one story dominating everything else: a live go-private offer that has set a hard floor under the stock while shorts quietly exit. Luther King Capital Management Corporation — already the…

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Trader NoteWBD

WBD Options Defensiveness Rises as Shorts Step Back

Warner Bros. Discovery enters September with an unusual split in its positioning data: options traders are pushing put demand to elevated levels at the same time short sellers are aggressively reducing exposure,…

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Trader NoteSOUN

SOUN: Borrow Costs Halved, But the Lending Pool Stays Empty

SoundHound AI ends the week in the same structural bind that has defined it all month — 41% short, zero availability, and a borrow market that has now been completely exhausted for over five consecutive weeks without a…

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Trader NotePWRD

PWRD Shorts Double in a Week as ETF Slips

PWRD, the TCW Transform Systems ETF, heads into September with borrowed shares more than doubling in a single week — an unusual move for an ETF that rarely generates this kind of lending market activity. The short…

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Trader NoteCRDO

CRDO Drops 9% on Earnings Day as Analysts Trim Targets

Credo Technology Group enters the post-earnings session with a sharp reset: the stock fell 8.6% on September 1, extending a near-identical weekly decline, as fiscal Q1 results landed and the Street immediately moved to…

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Trader NoteWULF

WULF Shorts Hold Firm as Insiders Head for the Exit

TeraWulf is caught in a painful squeeze between a stock down 17% on the month, shorts that show no sign of covering, and executives who sold millions of dollars of shares on the way down. The insider activity is the…

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Trader NoteIREN

IREN Bears Double Down as Borrow Pool Hits Year-Long Floor

IREN enters September with bears fully re-entrenched after the earnings disappointment, the borrow pool at its tightest in a year, and analysts holding price targets that imply more than double the current price — a…

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Trader NoteNVCT

NVCT Shorts Retreat as Borrow Costs Hit Six-Month Low

Nuvectis Pharma heads into September with its short book quietly unwinding and the lending market loosening at the fastest pace of the year — a notable shift from the elevated positioning that defined August. The…

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Trader NoteCRGY

CRGY Shorts Retreat as Wells Fargo Cuts Target

Crescent Energy heads into September with short sellers beating a significant retreat — and the Street split on whether the rally has further to run. The most striking data point this week is the pace of short…

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Trader NoteGFS

GFS Slides on Analyst Caution as Options Traders Hedge

GLOBALFOUNDRIES enters September under pressure, down 12% over the past month to $43.93, as fresh analyst coverage lands well below consensus and options market participants have turned markedly more defensive. The…

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Trader NoteGTLB

GitLab Post-Earnings: Analysts Chasing, Shorts Still Leaving

GTLB has cleared its earnings hurdle and the market is now digesting the aftermath — a stock down 3% on the day after results, yet still up 8% on the week, with analysts scrambling to re-anchor targets above where they…

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Trader NoteDUOL

Evercore Upgrade Drives Duolingo's Best Week in Months

DUOL is up 9% on the week and nearly 18% over the past month — but with 17.6% of the free float still sold short and the Street deeply divided on whether the stock has genuinely turned, this rally arrives with a…

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Trader NoteRIVN

Rivian Shorts Rebuild as the Stock Drops 7% on the Week

RIVN enters September under pressure — the stock fell 7.2% on the week to $15.54, short interest has quietly rebuilt over the past month, and the next earnings print is eight weeks away. The short interest story is the…

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Trader NoteWISE

Wise holds firm while peers sell off

WISE enters September with a quietly contrarian setup: while the payments sector took heavy losses last week, Wise barely budged — and the borrow market tells a story of shorts stepping away, not doubling down. The…

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