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Short sellers are active this week. Data from ORTEX as of August 20 reveals sharp moves in several names, with RDDT and CHTR leading the charge. Reddit saw its SI % FF climb to 17.6%, up from 13.5% just seven days ago.…
US equity ETFs pulled in $39.2B net this week. That is the single largest geographic inflow by a wide margin. The flow imbalance sits at 71.3 — firmly in buying-pressure territory. Over three months, US-focused funds…
All roads this week lead to NVDA. The $5.27 trillion chipmaker reports Wednesday after the close. It is the largest single earnings event of the quarter by market cap. Options flow shows bears have placed negative bets…
Options markets are heating up ahead of a packed earnings calendar. NVIDIA sits at the centre of it. The chip giant — worth $5.27 trillion — carries an RSI of 53 and an analyst upside of 40.5%. Options negative bets…
The week of August 22 is stacked with major tech results. NVDA headlines Wednesday after the close. Markets will be watching closely. The chipmaker carries a $5.25 trillion market cap — the biggest earnings event of…
Analysts turned bullish on defence and cybersecurity stocks Friday, with two notable upgrades and a string of positive target price revisions. LMT received a consensus upgrade, lifting analyst sentiment on the $132…
CrowdStrike arrives at its August 25 earnings print having given back ground sharply, yet with the Street more bullish than at any point in recent memory. The week's price action has reversed the dynamic that defined…
MongoDB arrives at its August 25 earnings release in a configuration that has changed materially since the previous notes: the stock has pulled back roughly 1% on the week to $430.83, and Evercore ISI initiated…
SMTC heads into its August 25 earnings print carrying a sharp divergence: options traders have turned meaningfully more defensive just as the stock drops 11.6% on the week to $124.09. The clearest signal into the print…
Bill Gates filed disclosures this week showing he spent $347 million buying shares in RSG across 31 separate transactions between August 10 and 19. The Microsoft co-founder averaged roughly $216 per share on his…
NSSC heads into its August 24 earnings print with options traders unusually bullish and short sellers in retreat — a combination that sets up a clean test of whether the security-technology company's recurring revenue…
INTU has gained 27% in the past month and 6% this week alone, with shorts already having retreated sharply — the question now is whether Tuesday's print can sustain a move that the analyst community has not yet…
Autodesk heads into its August 25 earnings release on the back of a sharp 20% one-month rally, carried higher by a cluster of insider buying that looks deliberate against a still-cautious analyst backdrop. The insider…
DKS heads into its August 25 earnings report with two of its clearest signals pointing in opposite directions. The more striking shift is in options. Traders have moved sharply away from the defensive posture that…
SJM heads into its August 25 earnings release with the Street turning notably more constructive — and a wave of target-price upgrades in the final days before the print. Analyst momentum has been one-directional this…
Gold Fields Limited arrives at its August 25 earnings date riding one of the most aggressive rallies in the gold sector this year — and the question now is whether the fundamental print can validate a stock that has…
Best Buy heads into its August 25 earnings release with options traders pricing in more downside protection than they have all year, even as short sellers quietly reduce their exposure. The sharpest signal into this…
TikTok agreed to a $400 million settlement with the US Justice Department over children's privacy violations. The deal lands directly in META's crosshairs. Options traders have already priced in skepticism — META…
Options flow signals a divided market this week. Bears are pressing two high-profile names. Bulls are quietly building positions in memory chip stocks. META ranks among the heaviest targets for negative options bets.…
Analyst activity on Friday centred on cybersecurity and real estate. CrowdStrike led the pack with a fresh target price increase. The consensus average target rose to $209.74. With a $194 billion market cap,…
