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Trader NoteDJT

DJT Bears Return After Earnings Disappoint

DJT enters the post-earnings session with the narrative flipped: the call-heavy positioning that defined last week has collapsed, and short sellers have staged their sharpest weekly build in months. The earnings print…

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Trader NoteHUT

HUT 8 Bounces But Street Stays Cautious After Earnings Rout

Hut 8 Corp. has clawed back some ground since its post-earnings collapse, but with short interest creeping higher, analysts trimming targets, and the entire crypto-mining peer group bleeding double digits this week,…

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Trader NoteCORZ

CORZ Drops 13% Post-Earnings as Shorts Hold Firm

Core Scientific enters the back half of August with a simpler but more uncomfortable setup than the one it carried into earnings: the stock is down sharply, analysts lifted targets anyway, and short sellers have barely…

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Trader NoteBITB

BITB: Borrow Costs Halved, Bulls Dominate Options

BITB heads into mid-August with its lending market the loosest it has been in months — a setup that tells a story more about diminishing short conviction than anything else. The most striking move in the data is the…

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Trader NoteLAR

LAR Slips on Results Day as Borrow Market Stays Wide Open

Lithium Argentina AG dropped 6.9% on August 11 — the same day it released quarterly earnings — yet the week still closed up 2.2%, a split that captures the tension sitting inside this stock right now: operational…

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Trader NoteBHVN

BHVN Bears Keep Exiting After the Print

Biohaven Ltd. reported earnings on August 11 and the short-covering trend that defined the pre-earnings setup has accelerated, yet the fundamental debate over BHV-7000's path to approval remains very much alive. The…

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Trader NoteTRFK

TRFK Gives Back Ground After Last Week's Surge

TRFK, the Pacer Data and Digital Revolution ETF, is consolidating after its sharp 13% weekly gain, slipping 2% this week to $94.76 as the AI infrastructure trade pauses for breath. The price pullback is modest in…

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Trader NoteDXYZ

DXYZ Shorts Retreat as Stock Surges 22%

Destiny Tech100 has delivered a sharp two-week rally, rising 22% to $29.62, and the most telling signal in the data this week is that short sellers are quietly exiting — not piling in. The short interest story here is…

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Trader NoteBLTE

BLTE Shorts Retreat as Earnings Arrive

Belite Bio reports this afternoon with shorts visibly retreating — short interest dropped 21% in a single session on August 11 to around 1.13 million shares, capping a week in which the stock climbed 13% to $177.58 and…

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Trader NoteCRBG

CRBG Shorts Retreat After a Strong Earnings Beat

Corebridge Financial enters the post-earnings week in an unfamiliar position: the stock has rallied hard, shorts are covering, and analysts are still raising targets — yet options traders and some close peers are…

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Trader NoteKNTK

Analysts Lift Targets as Kinetik Rallies Through Earnings

KNTK posted a solid earnings beat and has rallied 5% on the week to $51.11 — and the Street responded with a wave of target increases that reinforces the constructive case heading into the back half of the year. The…

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Trader NoteEE

EE Options Traders at Peak Defensiveness After Earnings Drop

Excelerate Energy has spent the week unwinding from its Q2 earnings hit, with options positioning now at its most defensive in the past year. The options market tells the sharpest story. The put/call ratio has spiked…

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Trader NoteSHEL

Shell rides the energy recovery as shorts stay sidelined

SHEL enters the second half of August on the front foot, up 10% over the past month and another 1% on the week, while the energy sector broadly catches a bid — yet what's most striking about the setup is not the rally…

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