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ADP Rallies Through Earnings — Shorts Keep Retreating

ADP delivered its July 29 earnings and the market rewarded it: the stock closed at $264.17, up 3.6% on the day and 7.3% on the week, extending what has become an 18% gain over the past month. The earnings-day move is…

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Trader NoteAAPL

Apple Earnings Day: The Print Arrives, the Premium Stays

AAPL reports Q3 results tonight at $340.08 — up 3.8% on the week and nearly 20% over the past month — with the stock now trading roughly $18 above the Street's consensus mean target of $321.66 and the defensive…

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APH Drops 9% Post-Earnings as Analyst Targets Tower Above

Amphenol has reported its Q2 results — the print the last note was previewing — and the stock has sold off sharply, falling 9% on the week to $143.85, leaving a wide and now very visible gap between where the stock…

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Trader NoteAMGN

Amgen Rallies Into Earnings With Shorts Retreating

AMGN heads into its August 4 earnings report with a 7% week-on-week rally, a sharp drop in short interest, and options traders moving cautiously more defensive — a setup where the longs are winning but the hedgers are…

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Trader NoteAWR

AWR Options Turn Cautious Ahead of August Earnings

AWR heads into its August 4 earnings with options traders the most defensively positioned they have been all year. The clearest signal is in the put/call ratio. It has climbed to 1.32, well above its 20-day average of…

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AMD Falls Into Earnings With the Price Gap Blown Wide Open

AMD dropped 8.1% on Tuesday and closed the week at $454.62 — down 16.5% in five sessions — arriving at next Tuesday's Q2 print in a dramatically different position than the one described in Monday's note, when the…

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Trader NoteGLW

Corning Results Land — Now Watch the Follow-Through

Corning reported its Q2 results on July 28, the event the market had been waiting for after a brutal month-long slide, and the critical question now shifts from whether numbers could arrest the decline to whether…

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JSW Short Score Grinds Higher as Earnings Loom

JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — heads into its August 20 results with the ORTEX short score at a new record high and the lending market still deep inside historically tight territory, even as cost to borrow has…

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Trader NoteNFLX

Netflix Stabilises, But the Post-Earnings Reset Isn't Over

Netflix is trying to find its footing after a bruising July earnings reaction, with the stock up modestly on the week but still well below where analysts were pricing it just two weeks ago. The bounce is real but…

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IREN's Short Base Grows Heavier, Analysts Hold the Line

IREN ended the week at $37.07 — a rare bounce of 10% on the week, but only after shedding another 9% on Friday and still down 32% over the past month, all while its short base quietly set a new high. The borrow picture…

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ASTS: Bears Cover Sharply but Borrow Pool Stays Seized

AST SpaceMobile enters the week with its most significant short-covering in over a month — yet the borrow market has tightened further still, leaving the setup more constrained than ever ahead of August earnings. The…

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