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Options traders are buying more puts on Dominion Energy ahead of its September 3 earnings date. At the same time, short sellers have been aggressively covering. The two signals point in opposite directions — and…
Shorts are rebuilding positions in Neogen Corporation at a steady pace — even as Piper Sandler's upgraded conviction points the other way. The short score has jumped from 37.7 to 43.0 over the past two weeks, its…
Why this matters: P reported earnings on August 26. Now three distinct signals are pulling in opposite directions — analysts keep raising targets, put buyers are unusually active, and the lending market has swung wide…
Earnings are done. The market's reaction is measured. Now the data is resetting — and it points toward a quieter chapter for FIVE shorts. Why this matters: The convergence of four signals on Five Below lands the day…
ABBV is sending a clear message: the sellers are done. Short interest fell 19% in a week to just 1.06% of free float — a multi-month low — while options traders swung sharply toward calls, pushing the put/call ratio to…
Walmart is sending conflicting signals post-earnings. Options traders are the most bullish in a year. Short sellers and the borrow market are heading in the same direction — down. The gap between those two reads is the…
Three distinct signals are converging on NIO with five days to go before its September 1 earnings release. Options traders are leaning bullish. The borrow market remains tight. And cost to borrow has collapsed. These…
DKS has been covered twice this week. The story has now shifted again. Short sellers are rebuilding positions — fast. Short interest jumped 24% in a single session on August 26. It now stands at 14.4% of the free…
Options traders are hedging harder. The lending market has calmed down. Those two facts, pulling in opposite directions, define the GDX positioning picture right now. The put-call ratio hit 1.55 on August 26. That is…
Why this matters: INTU's put/call ratio hit 1.00 on August 26 — the first time options traders have positioned equally on upside and downside since mid-July. That shift didn't happen in a vacuum. It followed the most…
DY has dropped 11.6% in a single session following its August 26 earnings print — extending a brutal week to -22.8% and a monthly drawdown of -27.7%. Yet the signals beneath the surface are moving in an unexpected…
Why this matters: Options positioning in CRH has swung sharply bearish this week. That shift runs against the grain of a lending market now at its most relaxed in months — a rare divergence worth watching. CRH's…
Truist Securities kicked off coverage of AXGN with a Buy rating and a $60 price target today. That adds fresh institutional weight to a stock already up 26% over the past month. Truist's initiation is the latest in a…
OppFi's founder is buying the dip daily. Shorts are doing the opposite. Options traders are siding with the CEO. Three signals are pointing in three directions — and the tension is building. Todd Schwartz, OppFi's…
Wolfe Research stepped in with an upgrade today. Bears are stepping up too. The data on DT Midstream is pulling in opposite directions — and the gap between them is widening fast. Wolfe Research analyst Keith Stanley…
Two days after short sellers covered aggressively, they're back. RIO short interest jumped 12% in a single day on August 25, reaching 8.88 million shares — the highest reading in three weeks. The timing is notable. The…
BRK.B has recovered from $495 to $504 since the last report. Two weeks of data now tell a coherent story: shorts have finished leaving, the borrow market has gone quiet, and options hedging — while still elevated — is…
Wells Fargo's downgrade landed on FIS yesterday — and it arrived into a market already doing something unusual: short sellers are leaving, not piling in. The divergence between analyst sentiment and positioning is the…
Snap-on is sending conflicting signals. Options traders turned sharply bullish this week. Short sellers, meanwhile, are adding positions at the fastest weekly pace in months. The put-call ratio collapsed to 0.59 on…
The Global X MSCI Argentina ETF ARGT has hit a rare lending-market milestone. Every share in the borrow pool is currently lent out. That comes as options traders notch their most cautious positioning in…
