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Trader NoteDHT

DHT Short Interest Jumps 37% in One Session

DHT Holdings enters the second half of June with a striking divergence: short sellers added aggressively in a single session even as the stock held steady and the lending market remains the loosest it has been all…

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Trader NoteGLD

GLD Bears Step Back as Gold Pulls Off Its Highs

GLD heads into the back half of June with a notable tension: short interest has been creeping higher for weeks, yet the ETF's borrow market just loosened sharply — a split signal that makes the current pullback harder…

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Trader NoteTAN

TAN Shorts Exit as Options Traders Get Defensive

TAN enters the second week of June in a sharp contradiction — short sellers are retreating fast, yet options traders are more cautious than they have been all year. The price action tells the story first. The Invesco…

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Trader NoteV

Visa's Short Sellers Retreat as July Earnings Loom

Visa heads into the week of June 10 with the short rebuild that dominated early June now sharply reversing — the clearest data shift from where things stood just days ago. The previous note flagged a quiet but…

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Trader NotePM

PM Rallies Into Q2 Print as Shorts Pare Back

Philip Morris International has recovered sharply since last week's note, closing at $178.49 — up 2.8% on the week and now within striking distance of the consensus target, with short sellers quietly trimming exposure…

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Trader NoteXOP

XOP Bears Rebuild as Borrow Conditions Whipsaw

XOP, the S&P Oil & Gas E&P ETF, enters the week with short sellers adding exposure even as the fund slides — a setup where bearish conviction and price weakness are reinforcing each other. The most striking feature of…

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Trader NoteDGT

DGT's Options Skew Flips Decisively Defensive

The most striking development on DGT this week is not where the ETF is trading — down 2.1% to $184.43 — but how sharply options positioning has rotated toward protection over the past month. The put/call ratio has…

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Trader NoteHROW

HROW: Shorts Build as Founders Buy the Dip

Harrow, Inc. heads into the back half of 2026 with a striking split in conviction — the co-founders bought the stock aggressively after a steep earnings selloff, while short sellers have quietly added to already…

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Trader NoteTDC

TDC shorts cover hard — but insiders keep selling

Teradata delivered one of the more conflicted setups in the software space this week: short sellers covered aggressively while every senior insider reaching for the sell button. The dominant move in the data this week…

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Trader NoteNLR

NLR Drops 13% in a Week as Nuclear Enthusiasm Cools

NLR, the VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF, is having a rough week — down 13.5% in five sessions to $119.55, extending a one-month loss of 15%. The most striking feature of this selloff is what the lending market is…

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Trader NoteIBKR

IBKR Shorts Build Into July Earnings

Interactive Brokers Group heads into its July 14 earnings date with short interest climbing at the fastest pace in months while the broader stock drifts lower — a combination that sharpens the setup ahead of the next…

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Trader NoteSMCI

SMCI's options alarm the loudest as the rally unwinds

Super Micro Computer has given back nearly all of last week's exuberance — down 19% on the week to $40.64 — and this time the options market flashed the warning well before the price did. The clearest signal came from…

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Trader NoteUDR

UDR CEO Sells $3M as Stock Posts Best Week in Months

UDR heads into the week of June 9 with a sharp tension at its centre: the stock is up nearly 7% on the week and trading at $39.37, yet the CEO just sold $3.1 million worth of shares near that high. The insider angle is…

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Trader NoteROM

ROM Options Signal Caution After a Bruising Week

ProShares Ultra Technology enters the second week of June nursing a sharp 17.7% weekly loss, even as the leveraged ETF holds a modest 4.1% gain on the month — a split signal that captures the violent two-way moves…

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Trader NoteMLCO

MLCO Dips as CLSA Downgrades and Peers Rally

Melco Resorts & Entertainment enters the second week of June with an awkward divergence: the stock fell 5.5% on Tuesday to $5.62 while its closest gaming peers posted gains, and a fresh analyst downgrade has reset the…

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Trader NoteRDNT

RadNet shorts rebuild as the stock reclaims $56

RDNT has clawed back 3.4% on the week to $56.18, reversing part of its month-long slide — but short sellers have used the bounce to rebuild positions rather than retreat. Short interest is moving in the wrong direction…

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