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The Amplify Cybersecurity ETF HACK has climbed 8.3% in a single week to $91.30, riding a renewed wave of investor interest in the sector — and the backdrop is becoming more charged by the day. The tailwind has a clear…
AVNS enters the back half of May with one sharp anomaly: options traders have turned abruptly defensive after a stock that's up 120% year-to-date. The options signal is the standout this week. The put/call ratio jumped…
Keysight Technologies enters the post-earnings week as one of the Street's most unanimously upgraded names, with analysts racing to lift targets after Tuesday's results triggered a wave of positive revisions — even as…
Wayfair walks into its May 21 Q1 earnings release with a bruised stock, a defensive options market, and an analyst community that has spent the past three weeks cutting targets — a setup that frames the print as a test…
AAMI heads into the week having given back nearly 3.5% on a share price that has nonetheless outrun analyst targets — with the Chief Legal Officer's $6.7m sale in early May now sitting as the most tangible market…
XPLR Infrastructure, LP heads into the week having shed 5.3% while its closest US-listed peers BEP and AES advanced 4.6% and 6.4% respectively — a rare and pointed divergence for a name that has spent most of 2026…
OUNZ heads into the week with the most notable development not in what shorts are doing — but in how fast they are leaving. Short interest in the VanEck Merk Gold ETF has collapsed over the past month. It dropped 52%…
JD.com is settling into a new post-earnings equilibrium — and the most striking signal this week isn't where short interest is going, but how decisively options traders have swung to the call side. Options positioning…
BABA has spent the week clawing back ground after its post-earnings battering, but the stock's recovery has been shallow and the core tension — a bullish Street narrative sitting alongside a widening discount to…
Dorian LPG steps into its Q4 FY2026 earnings call — already published pre-market today — with the stock up 16.7% over the past month and short sellers caught in a squeeze, having rebuilt positions into a rising…
AMC enters the week with a striking insider signal: CEO Adam Aron purchased 250,000 shares on May 19 at $1.38, committing $344,350 of his own money at a stock trading near its one-month low. The buy lands against a…
LGI Homes enters the back half of May with a notable disconnect — short sellers sit near their highest conviction levels in months, while options traders have abruptly swung to one of their most bullish readings of the…
Plains GP Holdings enters this week with a striking split: the stock is up 8% on the week and trading at its best level in two months, yet short sellers have simultaneously added the most aggressive position they've…
RDIV, the Invesco S&P Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF, has quietly drifted higher this week — but the more interesting story is a sudden tightening in the lending market that deserves a closer look. The fund gained 1.2%…
FNDA, the Schwab Fundamental U.S. Small Company ETF, heads into the week with a modest pullback but a remarkably quiet lending market — making this a story about price drift, not short-seller conviction. The fund…
COTY is trading at $1.93 — down 15% on the week, 18% on the month, and 35% year-to-date — while securities class action deadlines pile up and short sellers rebuild positions at pace. The class action story is the…
Rithm Capital Corp. is the week's awkward outlier in the mortgage REIT space — down 6.8% while every close peer posted gains, and with options traders now the most defensively positioned they have been all year. The…
NXE is now down 14% on the week and 16% over the past month — and the move is not happening in isolation. The sell-off is a sector story, not a company-specific one. Every close uranium peer is deep in the red this…
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings enters the week with an unusual split: short sellers are rebuilding at their most aggressive pace in months while company directors are buying the stock with their own money. The insider…
PBF Energy heads into this week with a paradox at its core: the stock is up 15% over the past month and short sellers are quietly exiting — yet its most prominent shareholder has been selling aggressively throughout…
