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Wolfe Research stepped in with an upgrade today. Bears are stepping up too. The data on DT Midstream is pulling in opposite directions — and the gap between them is widening fast. Wolfe Research analyst Keith Stanley…
Short sellers made aggressive moves in the past week. Four names stand out from the latest ORTEX data, all showing SI % of Free Float jumps of 6 points or more in just seven days. SPCX — Space Exploration Technologies…
Two days after short sellers covered aggressively, they're back. RIO short interest jumped 12% in a single day on August 25, reaching 8.88 million shares — the highest reading in three weeks. The timing is notable. The…
BRK.B has recovered from $495 to $504 since the last report. Two weeks of data now tell a coherent story: shorts have finished leaving, the borrow market has gone quiet, and options hedging — while still elevated — is…
Wells Fargo's downgrade landed on FIS yesterday — and it arrived into a market already doing something unusual: short sellers are leaving, not piling in. The divergence between analyst sentiment and positioning is the…
Snap-on is sending conflicting signals. Options traders turned sharply bullish this week. Short sellers, meanwhile, are adding positions at the fastest weekly pace in months. The put-call ratio collapsed to 0.59 on…
The Global X MSCI Argentina ETF ARGT has hit a rare lending-market milestone. Every share in the borrow pool is currently lent out. That comes as options traders notch their most cautious positioning in…
Li Auto reports earnings today. The options market is aggressively positioned for upside. The lending market is completely exhausted. Both signals arrived simultaneously — and they point in opposite directions. The…
Three distinct signals converged on THC Tuesday. Options traders turned sharply bullish, short sellers cut exposure at a record pace, and the borrow market sent an unusual signal — all on the same session. The put-call…
Options traders have pushed CIEN's put/call ratio to 1.00 — its highest z-score in over a month — just days after short sellers made their sharpest single-day exit in weeks. The two signals are pulling in opposite…
Why this matters: USO is flashing a rare combination of signals. Short interest just dropped 27% in a single day. The put-call ratio hit its highest level in a year. Cost to borrow surged 134% in a week. Three distinct…
Short positions in MULL collapsed 37.8% overnight. The GraniteShares 2x Long MU Daily ETF's borrow market has not moved an inch. Short interest fell from roughly 9.8 million shares to 6.1 million on August 25. That is…
Options positioning in GKOS just swung to its most bullish reading in a year. That shift collides with a fresh rise in short interest — creating an unusual tug-of-war in Glaukos Corporation's lending and derivatives…
Options traders have turned aggressively bullish on HACK, the Amplify Cybersecurity ETF, even as the lending market tightens and short sellers rebuild positions. The divergence across three signal types makes this one…
Three bearish signals hit VTEX simultaneously this week. Brazil's Itaú BBA cut its rating. Both co-CEOs sold shares. Short interest climbed 69% in a month. The signals are pointing in the same direction. Itaú BBA…
Three distinct signals fired on LNG within 48 hours. Options hedging spiked, short positions grew sharply, and borrowing costs moved higher — all while analysts keep raising their targets. The put-call ratio hit 0.545…
The short book that sat unmoved for weeks has finally broken. MA short interest dropped 21% in a single day on August 25 — from 9.07 million shares to 7.17 million. That ends the stubborn holding pattern described in…
Fluence Energy is under coordinated pressure. Short interest hit 19.6% of float on August 25 — a 17.2% single-day jump. The put-call ratio simultaneously spiked to a 4.3 standard-deviation extreme. Analysts are cutting…
Short sellers are retreating from ACAD at an unusual pace. Short interest fell 18% in a single session on August 26, dropping to 5.3% of free float — down 21% on the week and 14% over the past month. The trigger is…
Options traders have spent the past week adding protective cover on Agnico Eagle Mines. The put/call ratio hit 0.73 on Aug 24 — the highest in three weeks — and sits 1.4 standard deviations above its 20-day mean.…
