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Options data shows sharply divided sentiment across US markets this week. Bullish bets dominate semiconductors. Bearish flows are clustering in names with big year-to-date losses. NVDA and MU sit at the top of the…
A packed earnings slate greets investors this week. Home Depot is the headline act. It reports Tuesday, August 18. The retail giant's results will test how consumers are holding up under continued pressure. Also on…
Why this matters: BIRK jumped 11.6% Thursday. Short sellers are covering. But the lending market is frozen — leaving bears with nowhere to go and puts piling up at a 52-week record. Short interest has fallen sharply.…
Semiconductor and software names dominated analyst activity on August 14, with Applied Materials drawing the most attention. B of A Securities analyst Vivek Arya cut his price target to $650 from $720. He kept his Buy…
Bill Gates made fresh headlines this week, filing purchases of over $81.5M in RSG (Republic Services) across two days. He bought 211,771 shares on August 11 and 166,095 more on August 10. The waste management giant…
Short sellers are making bold moves this week. WOLF (Wolfspeed) tops the most-shorted large caps with 85.2% of its free float sold short. That figure jumped nearly 7 percentage points in just seven days. Bears see no…
Why this matters: Three separate data streams are moving in the same direction on Public Service Enterprise Group. Options buyers are chasing calls at the fastest pace in weeks. Short sellers are quietly exiting. And…
SE has now been running two conflicting stories for three days. Shorts covered hard after the earnings beat. Analysts raised targets. Yet the options market keeps adding put protection — and that tension is worth…
Options traders and short sellers are sending the same message on INFQ this earnings day. Bears are retreating. Calls are piling up. The borrow market remains almost entirely seized. Short interest has fallen 10.5%…
NVIDIA is back in the spotlight. Reports today say its next-gen Feynman AI platform is ramping fast. That is pushing TSMC to accelerate production. Options flow confirms the attention — NVDA draws heavy put interest…
A packed earnings schedule kicks off mid-week, with consumer and retail heavyweights front and centre. No major US IPOs are on the calendar for the next seven days. Tuesday sees HD Home Depot open the retail reporting…
Wall Street is raising targets across several sectors today. The moves point to growing confidence in cloud software, energy refining, and healthcare real estate. CrowdStrike drew fresh analyst attention with a new…
Five insiders at LTH — Life Time Group Holdings — filed sales totalling $466 million this week. Two directors, John Danhakl and John Galashan, each filed $221 million in shares sold on August 10 at $43.16 apiece.…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. Replimune Group saw the biggest SI jump among mid-caps. Its short interest hit 37% of free float, up 9.3 points in seven days. Bears are clearly sceptical of the cancer therapy…
Japan ETFs bled $75.8B in a single week. That is the biggest geographic outflow by a wide margin. Over three months, Japan had pulled in $81.2B. The weekly reversal is stark. Institutional money is rapidly unwinding a…
Every share available to borrow in ALOY is already lent out. Now options traders are piling on. Availability for REalloys Inc. has collapsed to just 0.026% — effectively zero. Short interest has climbed 12.3% in a…
The chip sector is the day's clearest battleground. Sandisk reports earnings tonight. Short sellers have been covering ahead of the print — a notable shift for a stock up 466% in 2026. Micron draws heavy two-way…
A packed earnings week kicks off today, Friday August 14. ICCC ImmuCell Corporation holds its Q2 2026 call this morning. GPUS Hyperscale Data reports Q2 results after the close today. The action builds through the…
Eikon Therapeutics heads into today's earnings report with bearish positioning at its most intense in recent weeks, even as the stock stages a partial recovery. The ORTEX short score tells the clearest story here. At…
SNDK heads into its August 14 earnings release having already answered the key positioning question — bears covered, put hedges collapsed, and the stock jumped 13.7% yesterday alone. The short interest story has…
