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ASST has now climbed 43% in a week and 90% over the past month. The borrow market has not loosened to match — it has done the opposite. Availability has dropped to 6%. That means roughly one share remains available for…
CRM surged 22.6% on its earnings beat. Analysts rushed to raise targets. Yet options traders are the most defensively positioned in 52 weeks — and that tension is the story. Ten firms raised price targets on August 27…
Why this matters: Three distinct signals hit Procter & Gamble within 72 hours. The cost to borrow spiked sharply, options positioning shifted, and the short book continued its retreat. Read together, they tell a more…
Why this matters: Short sellers are covering. The data is clear on that. But the lending market tells a more cautious story — availability remains very tight, and the ETF's options positioning has normalised far faster…
CVX has pulled back to $199.77, down 2.9% on the week, as the $196–$200 support band flagged in Tuesday's note faces its sharpest test yet. Three separate data streams converged this week — but the signal worth…
All eyes are on Kevin Warsh today. The Fed chair speaks at Jackson Hole this morning. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures are dipping ahead of the address. Markets want signals on the rate path. Any hawkish tone could…
MiniMed Group reports on September 1. The lending market has moved sharply since the last note two days ago — cost to borrow has nearly tripled, and options defensiveness has held firm. Two days ago, cost to borrow…
Analysts lifted targets across retail, tech, and industrials this week. The moves follow a busy round of quarterly results. Ulta Beauty drew one of the biggest upgrades. The consensus target rose to $624.50 from…
Board members at ILMN have been filing heavy sell orders. Keith Meister and Corvex Management unloaded a combined $293M in Illumina shares. The filings hit August 6 and August 21. Both sellers sit on the board as asset…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. KVYO saw one of the sharpest increases among mid-cap names. SI % FF jumped from 13.2% to 20.0% in just seven days — a +6.8 percentage point swing. That's a big bet against the…
The dominant story this week is a sharp rotation out of US equities and into fixed income, commodities, and international markets. The US geography bucket logged a $24.2B net outflow over the past week, with a flow…
Synopsys jumped 13.4% on August 27 to $464.89. The earnings beat triggered a wave of bullish repositioning across multiple data sets simultaneously. Why this matters: Three distinct signals — analyst upgrades, options…
Bill Gates dominated insider headlines this week. He filed purchases of $562 million in RSG stock between August 10 and August 25. Republic Services is a slow-and-steady waste management play — exactly the kind of…
Nearly 450 US/Canada companies and over 550 European firms report this week. It is one of the busiest end-of-summer stretches on record. BeOne Medicines kicks off today with its latest results. The $42 billion oncology…
Analysts delivered a wave of upward target price revisions Thursday. The sharpest single-analyst move came from Barclays, which raised its target on ABNB from $125 to $150. The bank kept its Hold rating but the 20%…
BULL heads into its August 28 earnings report having just gained 27% over the past month — and with its own executives quietly selling into that strength. The insider signal is the sharpest edge of this setup.…
LOT heads into its August 28 earnings print on a sharp momentum swing — up 44% over the past month — even as the broader short-seller community is pulling back. The borrow picture reflects that retreat. Short interest…
Bill Gates filed this week that he has been steadily buying RSG stock all month. The filings show he spent $562 million on Republic Services shares between August 10 and August 25. That works out to roughly 2.57…
LUCK reports today with a contradictory set of signals: a stock down 11% over the past month, a borrow market that has become significantly more expensive, yet options traders positioning for a bounce rather than…
Short sellers made sharp moves this week. Two names stand out for sudden increases in bearish bets. KVYO saw its Short Interest % of Free Float jump to 20% from 13.2% in just seven days. That's a 6.8 percentage point…
