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Trader NoteMFA

BTIG Upgrade Puts MFA Financial Back in Focus

MFA Financial enters the week with a fresh analyst upgrade in its corner, even as options traders have quietly turned more cautious and short interest has been creeping higher over the past month. The most notable move…

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Trader NoteAMZN

Amazon Bounces Off Lows as Analyst Conviction Holds Firm

Amazon has clawed back ground this week, rising 0.7% to $246, but the month-long slide of nearly 7% means the gap between market price and Street conviction remains one of the widest in recent memory. The most striking…

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Trader NoteA

Agilent Pulls Back After Strong Earnings Pop

Agilent Technologies enters the June 17 week down 5.3% on the week to $128.34, giving back a portion of the 18% surge that followed its late-May earnings print — and the tension between that strong fundamental signal…

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Trader NoteTRUL

Trulieve's 35% Rally Meets a CEO's Exit

TRUL has spent the past month climbing 35% — but the stock's most telling signal this week isn't in the price action, it's in who sold near the bottom and how loose the lending market remains despite that run. The…

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Trader NoteSMCI

SMCI Falls Another 28% as Put Demand Hits Near-Record Highs

Super Micro Computer has shed another 28% this week to $29.22 — extending a brutal run that has now erased roughly 45% of the stock's value in 2026 — and the options market, which called the last leg down, is flashing…

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Trader NoteTTWO

TTWO Insiders Cash Out as Shorts Rebuild Into the Rally

Take-Two Interactive enters the week with a striking contradiction: a stock up 8.5% in five days, a wave of insider selling at nearly every level of the organisation, and short interest climbing at its fastest monthly…

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Trader NoteCRE

Conduit Holdings Trades at a Discount While Shorts Stay Away

CRE enters the week with an unusual combination: a stock priced well below its estimated intrinsic value, a borrow market so loose it barely registers, and a recent earnings history that has consistently surprised to…

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Trader NoteMDV

MDV Borrow Market Fully Seized as Stock Surges 15%

MDV enters this week carrying one of the tightest borrow conditions in the market — every share available to lend is already out, while the stock itself has rallied sharply, creating a genuine squeeze dynamic on the…

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Trader NoteJSW

JSW Borrow Tightens Again as Short Score Climbs

JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — has partially clawed back last week's steep losses, adding 1.9% on Monday to trade at PLN 26.19, but the lending market is now moving against the price recovery in a way the June 12…

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Trader NoteSOUN

SOUN: shorts rebuild as the stock keeps sliding

SoundHound AI is in a different place than it was a week ago — the stock has fallen further, short interest has ticked back up, and the options market is tilting more bullish even as the underlying continues to drift…

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Trader NoteFOXA

Fox Bears Reclaim Ground as the Rally Stalls

FOXA has reversed course since the previous note — the stock dropped 3.6% on June 12 and is now down 1.6% on the week to $65.85, pulling back from the $68.32 high cited just days ago, while short sellers have begun…

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Trader NoteRZLV

RZLV Lending Pool Hits Empty as Earnings Count Down

Rezolve AI has arrived at its most stressed borrow configuration of the year — availability has collapsed to near-zero, cost to borrow has roughly doubled since the last note five days ago, and the June 26 earnings…

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