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Short sellers turned aggressive in the final week of August. Data as of August 31 shows some of the sharpest seven-day moves seen this summer. HighPeak Energy HPK led all large movers. Its short interest jumped 8.4…
Short sellers have been piling into BNO — the United States Brent Oil Fund — and the lending market is now reflecting that pressure. Short interest hit 57.1% of float on August 31. That is up 11.3% week-on-week and…
Options positioning on C has swung to its most defensive level in a year. The put-call ratio hit 1.43 on August 31 — a 52-week high — with a z-score of 2.46 standard deviations above the 20-day mean. That's the…
Options traders are paying up for downside protection on Dollar Tree. That sits in direct tension with a short seller base that has spent the past month heading for the exits. The put/call ratio hit 0.78 on August 31,…
Li Auto reported earnings on August 26. The short book didn't budge. A week later, the lending market remains as tight as ever — and the bears keep adding. Short interest stands at 29.2 million shares as of August 31.…
Chips are the most active trade on September 1. NVDA sits at the top of both bullish and bearish options rankings. That two-way positioning is unusual. It reflects active debate about where AI infrastructure spending…
Options flow on September 1 tells a divided story. Semiconductors are drawing the biggest bets — on both sides of the trade. NVDA sits atop the leaderboard for both positive and negative options bets over the past…
Wall Street is divided on networking stocks this week. The sharpest cut came at CIEN. B. Riley slashed its target from $516 to $413 — a $103 drop. That is a 20% reduction. The firm kept its Hold rating but flagged…
Short sellers made aggressive new bets this week. The biggest movers tell a clear story. SPCX saw one of the sharpest increases among large-cap names. Short interest jumped +5.4 percentage points in seven days. It now…
Institutional money moved decisively into equities this week. The broad trend is risk-on, with $37B net flowing into equity ETFs in just seven days. The US attracted the largest single geography inflow at $17.3B over…
Short sellers are pulling back. The borrow market has gone from tight to trivially easy. And the analyst community just finished the biggest target-raising cycle in months. For P, the signals are all pointing the same…
Workday has pulled back 3.6% to $197.45 since Monday. The stock is up 23% over the past month. Now the Street is split on whether that rally has run its course. Freedom Broker downgraded WDAY to Hold on August 28 —…
September is living up to its reputation as a tough month. Short sellers are pressing across tech and software simultaneously. Negative options flow is dominating. And a packed earnings calendar is raising the…
NVDA is today's top headline. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Nvidia's Rubin CPX chip is back — with a major redesign. The news lands as options flow turns negative on the stock. Negative bets have dominated Nvidia's…
XE heads into its September 3 earnings report with options traders leaning heavily bullish — an unusual posture for a pre-revenue nuclear developer with a complicated regulatory path ahead. The bullish tilt in options…
Credo Technology Group reports fiscal Q1 results today with the stock trading at a demanding premium — and short sellers have been methodically adding exposure through August. Short interest has climbed roughly 16%…
Analysts delivered a mixed bag of calls this week. An upgrade to AKAM stands out. The consensus lifted Akamai Technologies to a buy. Its average target price moved to $156.78 from $157.43 — the shift reflects…
GTLB reports tonight with the stock at $46.54 — up 35% over the past month and 11% in the last week alone — having already lapped the analyst consensus that was supposed to cap its upside. The analyst story is the most…
Sprinklr heads into its September 2 earnings report after a month that has confounded short sellers and surprised the rest of the market. The stock has climbed 29% over the past month to $8.21, with a 10.5% gain in the…
The biggest insider story of the past fortnight involves EVO, the Swedish online gaming platform. Filings published on August 26 show Kenneth Bryan Dart — Evolution's largest individual shareholder — bought a combined…
