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Old Dominion Freight Line sits at an unusual crossroads. Short interest has climbed sharply even as the stock gains ground and analysts raise targets — a rare divergence worth watching closely. Short interest hit 5.87%…
ODD shares fell 30% on June 2. Short sellers moved in immediately. The borrow market has tightened dramatically as a result. On June 1, availability dropped to just 3.7% — the tightest reading in at least a year. That…
Options traders are piling into calls on OTEX at the most aggressive pace in a year. That shift coincides with a sharp unwinding of short positions — creating a rare alignment of signals around Open Text…
SCHW options traders shifted sharply defensive on Tuesday. The put-call ratio jumped to 1.39 — the highest since late April — and sits 3.1 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 1.14. The stock fell 1.3% on the…
JP Morgan cut its price target on MNSO by 38% — from $26 to $16 — last Thursday. The bank kept its Overweight rating. The target now sits just 18% above the current price of $13.53. That target cut landed the same week…
Three lending signals converged on the XLB Materials Select Sector SPDR in the space of 48 hours. Short interest jumped. Availability collapsed. The borrow cost climbed. All three are moving in the same direction at…
ICLN availability collapsed to just 1% on June 1 — the tightest the lending pool has been in a year. At the same time, options traders turned sharply bullish, pushing the put/call ratio to a 52-week low. The two…
Ondas Inc. has surged 49% in a week. The borrow market remains completely locked. Options traders are the most bullish they've been in a year. Something has to give. The picture has shifted materially since the May 27…
WIT has become one of the hardest stocks to borrow in the US market. Availability has collapsed to just 0.05% — meaning fewer than one share remains available for every 2,000 already lent out. That is the lowest…
Three bearish signals converged on NHI this week. Short interest, put buying, and borrow costs all moved in the same direction following a Q1 earnings miss. Short interest jumped 28.7% in a single week to 4.1% of free…
The options market just flashed one of its most bullish readings of the year. Yet short sellers are still rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months. That tension is the QQQ story right now. The Nasdaq-100 ETF…
WhiteFiber, Inc. posted a 91% one-month gain. Analysts chased it higher with fresh target raises. Short sellers responded by adding to positions. All three signals are now pointing in the same direction — at each…
KRP drew a fresh Outperform rating from RBC Capital on May 29. The firm set a $20 target — 33% above the current $15.01 close. That's the bullish case. Options traders aren't convinced. RBC's Scott Hanold initiated at…
Five straight days at maximum borrow tightness. That is where Weibo finds itself entering June, with no sign the lending squeeze is easing. Availability sits at 3.4% — meaning roughly one share remains available to…
Short sellers are scrambling to bet against UFO — and the lending market just ran out of room. The Procure Space ETF has surged 31% in May. That rally has drawn a wave of bearish positioning. Now every share available…
Three distinct signals converged on NVT this week. Short interest jumped 60% in seven days. Cost to borrow rose 85%. And the put/call ratio just hit its highest z-score reading in over a year. Together, they suggest…
STM has surged 40% in a month. Its own executives are selling into strength. Options traders are loading up on calls anyway. That three-way tension defines the STMicroelectronics story right now. The insider activity…
ADSK fell 4% after its May 28 earnings print. Short sellers built positions ahead of the result. Yet the options market is now telling a different story. The put-call ratio collapsed to 1.26 on May 29. That's a…
Intuitive Machines heads into its June 4 earnings report with a rare split personality. Analysts have been racing to raise price targets. Short sellers haven't moved. The stock is up 78% in a month — and both camps are…
The borrow market for DIA has normalised. The options market hasn't got the memo. Short sellers retreated sharply through late May. The lending pool opened wide. Cost to borrow collapsed. By every lending metric, the…
