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Trader Note — 15022 total
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…
Options traders are the most defensively positioned on MPLX they have been all month — and the Street is quietly trimming its targets even as the partnership holds its ground. The sharpest signal this week sits in…
Workday reports after the close on May 21 with the sharpest short-versus-options divergence of the year still firmly in place — and Thursday's print will force one side to capitulate. Short interest has barely moved…
Palo Alto Networks delivered its Q3 results on May 20, and the Street's immediate verdict is a target-price stampede upward — but the options market spent the session hedging harder than it has in months. The analyst…
Diamondback Energy enters the week with a sharp contradiction between price momentum and insider behaviour — a 15% gain over the past month has triggered a cluster of executive sales even as Wall Street analysts chase…
Santacruz Silver Mining has had a bruising week — down 18% in five sessions to CAD 11.36 — even after the company reported what it called record quarterly earnings. That combination of strong headline numbers and a…
Phillips 66 enters the back half of May with its most bullish analyst signal in months — but the options market still hasn't fully stood down. Goldman Sachs moved first this morning. Analyst Neil Mehta raised his price…
SMH heads into the week of May 18 with bears piling back in from two directions at once — short sellers rebuilding positions and options traders at their most defensive in a year. The options picture is the sharpest…
The VanEck Pharmaceutical ETF enters the week with borrow availability caught in a notable squeeze — and short interest holding near a month-long high relative to the float. The lending market tells the more…
POET Technologies pulled back 8% on Tuesday to $13.07, giving up ground after a week that saw short sellers begin to unwind — but the lending market remains far too tight for bears to declare victory. Short interest…
Enphase Energy enters the week caught between two competing forces: a 25% weekly price surge that has lifted the stock back toward analyst targets, and a short position that has barely budged despite the rally. The…
Marathon Petroleum heads into this week with a notable divergence on its hands: a stock up 23% in a month, a still-modest short base that is quietly rebuilding, and an options market starting to ask questions. The…
ARCO, the largest McDonald's franchisee in Latin America, heads into the back half of May with a stock trading at three-month lows and an options market that has suddenly turned far more defensive — the tension between…
NXTG — First Trust's Indxx NextG ETF tracking 5G and next-generation telecom infrastructure — has pulled back slightly this week even as the short activity that spiked sharply a week ago begins to unwind. The short…
Meta Platforms enters the final week before its May 27 earnings event with a subtle but telling shift: the call-heavy options signal that defined last week's note is holding, yet insiders sold nearly $6 million of…
REMX, the VanEck Rare Earth and Strategic Metals ETF, heads into the week with an unusual split: short sellers are unwinding at speed, yet options traders are more defensively positioned than at any point in the past…
