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Trader NoteAMTM

AMTM Shorts Rebuild After Earnings Beat

Amentum Holdings just beat Q2 estimates on both the top and bottom line. The stock barely moved. That gap between a decent print and an unmoved price is the central tension heading into the week. Short sellers stepped…

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Trader NoteFCHL

FCHL: A Micro-Cap Collapse With a Borrow Market on Fire

FCHL — Fitness Champs Holdings Limited — heads into its May 14 earnings announcement having lost more than half its value in a single week and virtually all of it over the past month. The price story is stark. The…

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Trader NoteBIOA

BIOA heads into Q2 earnings with Street turning bullish

BioAge Labs enters its May 14 Q2 earnings call with a fresh analyst initiation, a strong Q1 beat in the bank, and options traders signalling more confidence than they've shown in months. The timing of Wednesday's BTIG…

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Trader NoteBTC

Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust Eases Back After a Strong Month

BTC enters the back half of May having pulled back modestly from a strong run — down roughly 1% on both the day and the week — but still up more than 10% over the past month. The more interesting story right now is…

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Trader NoteNIXT

NIXT: Shorts Double as ETF Slips

NIXT, the Research Affiliates Deletions ETF, heads into mid-May with a notable short interest spike that looks more structural than speculative. Short interest has more than doubled over the past month, rising 108% to…

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Trader NoteOKLO

Oklo founders sell into the rally as shorts ease back

OKLO heads into the post-earnings week with an unusual combination: a stock that has surged 47% in a month, a founder-led selling wave, shorts who are actually reducing exposure, and a newly initiated JP Morgan that…

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Trader NoteCIGL

YOOV Collapses 32% Pre-Earnings as Cost-to-Borrow Eases

YOOV — Concorde International Group Ltd. — heads into its May 15 earnings report having shed nearly a third of its value in a single week, with the borrow market sending contradictory signals about how confident…

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Trader NoteBOW

BOW shorts cover hard after Q1 beat

Bowhead Specialty Holdings enters the week after its Q1 earnings on a strong footing — shorts are covering fast, the stock is up 11% on the week, and analysts are lifting targets. The tension is whether this rally has…

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Trader NoteVIK

VIK Heading Into Q1 With Options Turning Bullish

Viking Holdings heads into its Q1 earnings print — due May 14 — with a notable divergence: short interest has been quietly building while options traders have turned their most bullish in months. The options story is…

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Trader NotePACS

PACS Group surges 26% as Q1 earnings blow past estimates

PACS Group delivered one of the more striking single-week moves in the healthcare space, surging 26% after a Q1 earnings beat that forced both bulls and remaining sceptics to reprice their positions. The catalyst…

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Trader NoteMNDR

MNDR: A Short-Squeeze Unwind in Real Time

Mobile-health Network Solutions enters this week with one of the more dramatic short-positioning reversals seen in a micro-cap name this year — and the borrow market tells the story plainly. The defining feature of the…

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Trader NoteRDDT

Reddit's CEO Sells Into a Short-Cover Rally

RDDT heads into the week of May 13 with a curious split: shorts are retreating just as the founder is cashing out, and the stock fell 11% on the week despite a clean earnings beat a fortnight ago. The most striking…

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Trader NoteKYTX

KYTX shorts pile in ahead of May earnings

Kyverna Therapeutics enters its May 27 earnings date with short sellers making their most aggressive move of the year — and the stock, paradoxically, gaining 11% on the week. Short interest has jumped 22% in a single…

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Trader NoteGUTS

GUTS Beats Q1 Estimates, but Revita Remains the Real Test

GUTS just delivered its first positive earnings surprise in recent memory — and then shorts started creeping back in. Fractyl Health posted Q1 EPS of $0.06 against a consensus estimate of -$0.16, a rare beat for a…

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Trader NoteHUT

Analysts race to catch up as HUT 8 leaves shorts behind

HUT enters the week in an extraordinary position: a 33% price surge in five days, a wave of analyst upgrades still lagging the move, and a short base that has been quietly unwinding. The story this week is entirely…

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Trader NoteJDZG

JIADE's 77% week raises borrow cost questions

JDZG enters this week as one of Nasdaq's most volatile micro-cap trades. The stock rose 77% over the past five days, closing at $2.14 — yet the borrow market tells a far more complicated story than the price action…

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Trader NoteVSTS

VSTS Earnings Beat Ignites a Short-Covering Rally

Vestis Corporation enters the post-earnings window having just delivered its most consequential session in over a year. Q2 adj. EPS of $0.16 doubled consensus of $0.08. Revenue of $659.4M edged past estimates. The…

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