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Trader NotePONY

PONY Shorts Hold Firm After Earnings Bounce

PONY enters the post-earnings week with a split personality: the stock jumped 12% over the past five days to $9.34, yet short sellers are adding rather than retreating, and the borrow market has tightened meaningfully…

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Trader NoteSHA0

Schaeffler Shorts Build as Space Deal Grabs Attention

SHA0 heads into the week's close with an unusual double narrative: a sharp short-interest rebuild running underneath a stock that has rallied 28% in a month and just announced a high-profile partnership with space-tech…

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Trader NoteBLK

BLK Bulls Push Toward Analyst Targets

BlackRock heads into the final days of May with its stock up 4% on the week and options traders rotating away from defensive positioning — an unusual combination for a $1,077 stock still sitting roughly 14% below the…

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Trader NoteCBRS

CBRS Founders Cash Out as Post-IPO Rally Unwinds

Cerebras Systems listed on Nasdaq just two weeks ago at $185, opened at $350, and is already handing back a significant chunk of those gains — down 20% on the week to $241.71. The post-IPO unwind is the central tension…

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Trader NotePVLA

PVLA: Calls kept the faith — and the stock has followed

Palvella Therapeutics heads into June with the bullish options thesis from last week looking increasingly vindicated: the stock has added 7.7% on the week to $117.59, and the call-heavy positioning that defined the…

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Trader NoteBTC

BTC Options Hedge Persists as Borrow Cost Hits a New High

BTC has stabilised near $33.56, but the put/call ratio is still running well above its historical average — and borrowing costs just hit their highest level since the data begins. The options story that began two weeks…

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Trader NoteGEV

GEV Rebounds Sharply as Bulls Raise Targets After Q1 Beat

GE Vernova enters the back half of May with one of the more interesting post-earnings setups in the power infrastructure space: a stock that cratered 7% in the month before results, then surged nearly 16% on April 22…

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Trader NoteRDDT

Reddit Shorts Retreat as June Earnings Loom

RDDT heads into the final stretch before its June 8 earnings call with short sellers pulling back, insiders cashing out at pace, and options positioning distinctly calmer than the weeks prior. The most notable…

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Trader NoteTBBB

TBBB Drops on Equity Offering Despite HSBC Upgrade

BBB Foods Inc. enters the week with two sharply contradictory headlines competing for attention: a same-day analyst upgrade to Buy and a freshly announced equity offering that sent the stock down 6.4% on Tuesday. The…

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Trader NoteVNOM

Analysts Lift Targets as VNOM Dips on Weak Oil

Viper Energy enters the final days of May with a curious disconnect: the stock fell 6.5% over the week to $45.59, yet analysts spent the same period raising price targets. That gap between Street conviction and market…

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Trader NoteNNE

NNE shorts squeezed as stock rebounds 30% on the week

NANO Nuclear Energy has flipped the script in five sessions: the stock that bears were piling into last week just surged 30%, forcing the borrow market back to maximum stress and leaving short sellers caught in a sharp…

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Trader NoteABX

ABX insiders sell in unison ahead of June earnings

Abacus Global Management enters its June 3 earnings with a notable flag already on the tape — five executives sold shares on the same day, just three weeks before the next print. The insider activity from May 8 is the…

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Trader NoteKGS

Wells Fargo Joins the Bull Camp as KGS Shorts Keep Covering

KGS enters the last week of May with a fresh institutional endorsement, a short base that keeps shrinking, and a lending market so loose it barely registers as a constraint. Wells Fargo initiated coverage on Kodiak Gas…

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Trader NoteFER

Ferrovial Catches a Citigroup Downgrade After a Strong Week

FER enters the final days of May with a bullish price run colliding head-on with a bellwether analyst turning cautious — the kind of tension that tends to keep a stock rangebound rather than directional. The week's…

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Trader NoteAXG

AXG: Short Sellers Exit as Borrow Costs Stay Elevated

AXG heads into its June 30 earnings date with a notably split signal — shorts are rapidly unwinding even as the cost to borrow remains high, and the stock continues to drift lower. The most striking move in the data…

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Trader NoteLAES

LAES shorts fail to chase a 31% weekly rip

SEALSQ Corp enters the final days of May in a genuinely unusual position: the stock has surged 31% in a week, yet short sellers have barely moved — and options traders have turned more bullish than at any point in the…

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