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Trader NoteWDC

Street Turns Bullish on WDC as Shorts Beat a Fast Retreat

Western Digital has had a remarkable week — the stock up 10% to $562.93, shorts cutting positions at the fastest pace in months, and Wall Street's biggest names racing to lift price targets. The tension worth watching…

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Trader NoteNN

NextNav Shorts Rebuild as Oppenheimer Doubles Its Target

NextNav Inc. finds itself in an unusual spot heading into mid-June: a respected analyst just doubled his price target to $50, yet short sellers are pressing harder at the same time. The short interest story is the…

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Trader NoteFBK

FinecoBank rallies as shorts retreat to record lows

FBK enters the week on the front foot, with the stock up nearly 5% over the past five sessions and short sellers at their least active in over a year — a combination that makes the lending market angle here almost…

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Trader NoteGEV

GEV Shorts Pause, but Jefferies Cuts Its Target Hard

GE Vernova bounced 3.7% on Friday to close at $940.66, but the week's most consequential move came not from the market makers but from a sell-side desk: Jefferies slashed its price target by $140, from $1,350 to…

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Trader NoteCBRS

Cerebras Post-Earnings: Shorts Hold, Options Flip Bullish

CBRS delivered its June 12 earnings print and dropped 5.5% the same day — yet the week still closed up 6.5%, leaving the post-results picture more complicated than a single-session move suggests. The options market has…

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Trader NoteCRDO

CRDO shorts retreat as the Street races to catch up

Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd enters the week with a striking reversal from last week's setup: shorts that rebuilt aggressively after the fiscal Q4 print are now cutting back, even as analysts have spent the past…

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Trader NoteENRD

ENRD: A Sharp Drop and a Tightening Borrow Market

ENRD, the Swedish autonomous freight startup Einride AB, posted a jarring single-session decline this week, dropping 10.8% to $9.39 on June 12 — and the borrow market tells an equally unsettled story. The most striking…

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Trader NoteVAR

Vår Energi Falls Harder Than Peers as Borrow Demand Spikes

VAR dropped 5.4% on Friday alone, closing at NOK 47.02 — a steeper single-day move than any of its closest Oslo Børs peers. The selloff arrives against a curious lending-market backdrop: borrow demand spiked sharply…

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Trader NoteIONQ

IonQ Into Earnings: Shorts Exit, Street Divided

IonQ arrives at its June 16 earnings report with the most dramatic short unwind of the past month still fresh — and a Street that cannot agree on what the stock is worth. The positioning story has shifted more in the…

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Trader NoteSPCE

SPCE: Proxy Trade Unwound, Shorts Dig In

SPCE is now dealing with the hangover from one of the sharpest two-act trades of the year — a 40%-plus one-month rally built on SpaceX anticipation, followed by a 32% single-day collapse the moment the real deal began…

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Trader NoteMOS

MOS Bears Caught Offside as Stock Jumps 7.6%

MOS heads into the weekend with a sharp one-day reversal sitting on top of a still-growing short position — a tension that defines where this stock is right now. Short interest at Mosaic has risen fast and far. SI as a…

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