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Trader Note — 15017 total
Datadog has cleared its June 15 earnings hurdle and the Street is still lifting targets — but options traders are quietly adding hedges, and insiders are selling into the strength. The analyst response to the print is…
10x Genomics heads into mid-June with a striking contrast: short sellers are quietly reducing positions into a 50% monthly price rally, while the options market is turning increasingly bullish — a combination that…
BX heads into its July 17 earnings date with short interest climbing sharply, options traders holding a persistently defensive tilt, and the stock up 6.3% on the week — a tension worth unpacking. The most striking…
Red Cat Holdings heads into its fiscal Q4 earnings report tomorrow — June 18 — with short sellers unmoved, the borrow market tight but not stressed, and options traders leaning slightly more bullish than usual. The…
CrowdStrike has navigated the June 17 catalyst and is trading at $679.49 — up 5.4% on the week but down nearly 2% on Tuesday — with the pre-event defensiveness that dominated this column for ten days now giving way to…
Uber Technologies enters the back half of June with a familiar tension: options traders are still reaching for downside protection at an unusual rate, while analysts continue to mark up their targets and the stock…
PINS enters the week with a two-sided tension: short sellers have been quietly adding for over a month, yet the borrow market remains so loose that squeeze pressure is essentially absent — and options traders are now…
Adaptive Biotechnologies heads into the final days of June with a telling split: options traders are as bullish as they've been all year, yet insiders have been quietly selling into the rally. The options market is the…
LYFT heads into mid-June carrying one of the heavier short burdens in US transportation, but the lending market is quietly moving in a less hostile direction — making this a week where the short story is more nuanced…
EFC enters the back half of June with a fresh analyst headwind: BTIG's Douglas Harter downgraded the stock to Neutral this morning, dropping a Buy rating that had been in place since at least mid-2025. The timing is…
Western Midstream Partners heads into the back half of June with the analyst picture brightening at the margin — while short sellers have quietly been adding to positions all week against a backdrop of exceptionally…
ServiceTitan heads into the back half of June with a familiar tension: the Street turned meaningfully more bullish after its early-June earnings beat, yet the stock has spent the past week handing those gains back. The…
DELL has recovered sharply from its post-earnings dip, closing at $404.08 — up nearly 6% on the week — yet options positioning has tightened again, and Silver Lake is still selling. The stock heads into next Thursday's…
Moderna has delivered one of its strongest weekly performances of the year, up 16% to $55.40, yet short sellers have barely flinched — and that contradiction is the story this week. Short interest is elevated and…
TRUL has added 35% in a month and 24% in a single week, yet the stock's most interesting tension now sits in its rapidly expanding valuation multiples and a looming August earnings date that will test whether the rally…
NIO enters the back half of June down 18% over the past month, with the stock now at $5.01 — and the most notable shift this week is not in short positioning but in options, where call buyers have quietly returned even…
Bloom Energy has clawed back 8.2% this week to $280.88, reversing nearly half the 14% selloff flagged in the previous note — yet the short position that built through May remains almost entirely intact, making this…
XLC, the Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF, sits in an odd spot this week: short interest has extended its rebuild from early June, but the pace is slowing and options traders are pulling back from the…
KKR crossed $98.97 this week, up 3.3% — and for the first time since February, the stock has pushed above the range where its Co-CEOs made their largest open-market purchases. That insider buy cluster deserves…
BV heads into the back half of 2026 with a fresh analyst endorsement landing the same week shorts have been steadily rebuilding — a mild tension in an otherwise quiet story. The most notable event this week was…
