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Trader NoteSOUN

SOUN short cover grinds on, borrow stays locked at zero

SoundHound AI is three weeks into a short-covering trend, but the borrow market is offering no relief — and the cost to exit is finally starting to fall. The short-cover story has continued since the May 29 note…

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Trader NoteM

Med Life CEO Keeps Selling as Stock Recovers from Year Lows

The dominant story at M — Med Life S.A., Romania's largest private healthcare network — is one of relentless insider selling against a stock that has quietly doubled off its 2025 lows. CEO and Chairman Mihail Marcu has…

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Trader NoteTTD

TTD Bears Ease but Stock Keeps Falling

The Trade Desk enters the first week of June in an awkward position: short sellers are quietly trimming, the borrow market has loosened dramatically, and options traders have never been more bullish — yet the stock…

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Trader NoteOLLI

OLLI shorts hold post-earnings as Street targets loom large

OLLI has now printed its June 3 earnings, and the positioning picture that built into that event has largely held — short sellers who rebuilt aggressively through May are sitting on a stock down 7% over the past month…

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Trader NoteJSW

JSW Bears Hold Ground as Short Score Plateaus Near Peak

JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — enters the first week of June with short sellers stubbornly entrenched and the stock grinding lower, even as a recent narrative around stronger European coking coal demand struggles…

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Trader NoteINTU

Goldman's Sell Call Lands as Intuit Bounces Hard

Intuit is navigating one of the sharpest resets in its recent history — a 23% earnings-day collapse followed by a tentative recovery, all while Goldman Sachs chose this week to fire its most bearish shot yet. The stock…

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Trader NoteDOCN

DOCN Shorts Rebuild as Stock Blows Past Analyst Targets

DigitalOcean Holdings closed Monday at $173.45 — up 11% on the day and nearly 70% above where it traded a month ago — yet the more striking development is that short sellers are adding back positions even as the stock…

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Trader NoteSOFI

SoFi Surges 17% — But Shorts Aren't Flinching

SoFi Technologies just put in its best week in months, yet the short base that has dogged the stock all year has barely moved. The price action is the headline. SOFI closed Friday at $18.22, up 17% on the week and 7.4%…

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Trader NoteASAN

ASAN Surges 16% Post-Earnings as Bears Face a Reckoning

Asana just delivered the squeeze shorts had been dreading — a 16% weekly rally off the back of its June 1 earnings print, with bears holding 20% of the float now nursing significant mark-to-market losses. The…

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Trader NoteXTB

XTB Pulls Back as Availability Tightens Sharply

XTB ends the week down nearly 5% to PLN 103.64, reversing last week's recovery — and the lending market has just flashed its most notable move of the month. The standout this week is the sharp tightening in borrow…

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