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Trader NotePN

PN's Squeeze Unwinds — But Borrowing Costs Stay Extreme

Skycorp Solar Group has just lived through one of the more dramatic short-squeeze cycles seen in a micro-cap name this year — and the aftermath is almost as striking as the peak. The story starts with a catalyst. On…

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Trader NoteCRVO

CervoMed Slides Into Q1 Print Near Multi-Month Lows

CRVO heads into Tuesday's Q1 earnings call with the stock down 13% on the month, a just-released EPS miss already on the tape, and short sellers quietly adding exposure for the past six weeks. The catalyst for Friday's…

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Trader NoteINTJ

INTJ shorts quietly exit as stock posts 16% monthly gain

INTJ heads into the back half of May with short sellers at their most subdued in months — and the price action appears to be the reason. The most striking dynamic is the steady retreat of short positions over the past…

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Trader NoteYHC

YHC Earnings Drop, Borrow Costs Rise Ahead of Next Report

LQR House arrives at its May 21 earnings date on a sharp week — up 18% in five sessions to $1.03 — but the fundamentals underneath that move are complicated. Q1 results released Thursday after the close showed revenue…

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Trader NoteADVB

ADVB Shorts Bail Ahead of Earnings

Advanced Biomed Inc. heads into its May 21 earnings event with a striking story: shorts that spent three weeks piling in have unwound almost entirely, while borrow costs remain among the most extreme in the market. The…

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Trader NoteHUBC

HUBC: A 98% Collapse Leaves Shorts in Command

HUBC has cratered 98% in a single month, leaving short sellers sitting on extraordinary exposure — and raising questions about what, if anything, is left to short against. The price collapse is the defining fact here.…

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Trader NoteCDIO

CDIO drops 15% as earnings loom

Cardio Diagnostics Holdings heads into its May 20 earnings release with the stock down 15% on the week, shorts unwinding fast, and borrow costs running at nearly triple digits — a confusing mix of signals for a stock…

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Trader NoteWETO

WETO rebounds while short interest spikes sixfold

Wetour Robotics Limited heads into the weekend having gained 17% on the week, yet the number of shares sold short multiplied more than sixfold in the same period — a divergence that makes the stock one of the more…

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Trader NoteSDRL

Barclays Upgrade Drives SDRL's Best Week in Months

Seadrill enters the back half of May with a head of steam. The stock climbed 9% this week to $52.70, its strongest weekly gain since the start of the year, and the catalyst is clear: a high-conviction analyst upgrade…

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Trader NoteSHPH

SHPH shorts bail ahead of earnings — and a crypto pivot

SHPH heads into its May 21 earnings call as a company mid-transformation — abandoning its pharmaceutical identity for Dogecoin mining, while short sellers who crowded the trade are rushing for the exits. The most…

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Trader NoteLBGJ

LBGJ: Short Interest Collapses After Wild May Swing

Li Bang International Corporation Inc. heads into the weekend defined by a single extraordinary data point — short interest plunged 82% in one week, one of the sharpest unwinds in the stock's recent history. The short…

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Trader NoteSUNE

SUNE Shorts Retreat Before Next Earnings

SUNation Energy Inc. heads into next week's earnings with short sellers in full retreat — but the borrow market tells a more complicated story. Short interest has collapsed by 20% over the past week, falling from…

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Trader NoteMF

UBXG short sellers pile in as stock collapses 64%

U-BX Technology has become one of the more dramatic setups in US small-cap this week — a stock down 64% in five sessions while short sellers have simultaneously built their largest position on record. Short interest is…

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Trader NoteONFO

ONFO: Earnings miss meets a short exodus

Onfolio Holdings heads into its Q1 2026 earnings call on May 18 with a brutal week behind it — a 23% price decline — and a paradox at its core: short sellers have been abandoning the trade even as the fundamental news…

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Trader NoteALLR

ALLR Heads Into Q1 Print With a Sharp Pullback

Allarity Therapeutics enters its Q1 2026 earnings call on May 22 having shed 13% over the past week, and the tension is straightforward: a clinical-stage biotech with no revenue, a binary pipeline, and a print arriving…

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Trader NoteKSCP

KSCP: Bears Control the Tape Into Earnings

Knightscope enters its May 18 investor update carrying one of the most congested short books in its history — 24% of the float is sold short, availability is near rock bottom, and the stock has shed 13% in a…

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Trader NoteCERO

CERO Shorts Spike — but Context Is Everything

CERO, the micro-cap biotech trading on OTC markets at $0.027, heads into the back half of May with a dramatic-looking short interest jump that almost entirely dissolves under closer inspection. The headline number is…

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Trader NotePIII

PIII's 216% earnings pop triggers a short rebuild

P3 Health Partners just delivered one of the most violent single-day moves in the small-cap healthcare space this year. The stock closed May 15 at $11.29 — up 218% on the week and 368% over the past month — after a Q1…

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