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Amer Sports heads into its August 19 earnings release with options sentiment having swung sharply from the defensive posture flagged four days ago — the most notable positioning shift in the run-up. Since the prior…
ZTO Express reaches today's earnings release with short sellers having spent the past month steadily stepping back — a trend that has continued even as the stock drifted 3% lower over that same period. Short interest…
James Hardie Industries enters its August 20 earnings release with short sellers still in retreat and options positioning only marginally more defensive than usual — a setup that remains broadly consistent with the…
TOL arrives at its fiscal Q3 earnings report on August 19 having already shed 6.6% on the week and 5.2% over the past month — a softening that has, notably, not reignited bearish positioning. Short sellers have…
TGT reports today with a clear tension in the data: options traders remain the most defensively positioned they've been all year, even as short sellers continue to exit and analysts keep lifting targets. The options…
Bond markets dominated the macro backdrop overnight. US chip stocks slid as government borrowing costs hit multi-year highs, according to FT Markets. Japan's 10-year yield neared 3% — a three-decade high — as a weak…
Analysts made a bold call on ON Semiconductor today. The $32.4B chipmaker received a formal upgrade, with the consensus buy count rising to 17 from 12 sell ratings. The average target price slipped slightly to…
Bill Gates filed purchases of RSG shares worth $186 million this week. The filings, reported August 12–14, show Gates bought 864,624 shares of Republic Services across 14 transactions between August 10 and 13. His…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. Two names stand out above all others. WOLF — Wolfspeed — now carries 87% short interest as a percentage of free float. That already made it the most shorted stock with a market…
The dominant story this week is a sharp divergence in tech. Information Technology was the single largest sector outflow over the past week, shedding $2.5B in net flows. That is a stark reversal from the past three…
Government borrowing costs are hitting multiyear highs. US chip stocks slid as bond yields climbed. Japan's 10-year yield touched a three-decade high near 3%, driven by a weak yen and sticky inflation. Bond markets are…
Options flow leaned bearish on August 18, with notable negative bets clustering in semiconductors and consumer retail. The ORTEX options score screen flagged several mid-cap names breaking from their usual…
Analysts turned more bullish on RTX and NetApp on Monday. Both stocks saw target price lifts, pointing to fresh confidence in defense and enterprise storage spending. RTX Corporation drew an upgraded consensus target…
Bill Gates filed to disclose $186 million in fresh buys at RSG last week. He purchased 864,624 shares of Republic Services between August 10 and 13. The filings landed August 12–14. It marks a significant vote of…
Short sellers made bold moves last week. Wolfspeed tops the charts with 87% SI of free float — and that's not all. Bears added another +7.6 percentage points in just seven days. Availability sits at zero, meaning there…
Cerebras Systems has added 15% in a single session and 46% over the past month, yet options traders have abruptly swung to their most defensive posture on record — a sharp divergence worth unpacking. The options signal…
GRPN has now fallen 27% in a month and 11.5% in a week, closing at $20.30 — yet the short base is not only intact, it has grown, and the borrow market that briefly loosened after the Q2 print is tightening again. The…
Dhoot Transmission's most compelling tension this week is not in the short book or the options market — it is in the ownership table, where a private equity giant and a founding family sit on opposite sides of a…
Nebius Group has moved violently against its short book again, surging 46% on the week to $268.85 and leaving an already painful short position looking increasingly untenable. The week's central tension is a short base…
Bond yields are doing the damage today. The Nasdaq is dropping as chip stocks lead losses. Micron, Marvell, and Credo Technology are among the hardest hit. This fits the options flow picture — bearish bets on semis…
