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Trader NoteDJT

DJT's Earnings Week: Call Buyers Dominant, Shorts Fading

DJT arrives at its August 10 earnings release with options sentiment locked at the most bullish extreme of the past year — and the borrow market telling a story of retreating, not emboldened, bears. The options signal…

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Trader NoteAU

AngloGold Rallies 21% Post-Earnings as Gold Sector Surges

AngloGold Ashanti has delivered one of its strongest weekly performances in recent memory — up 21% to $96.22 — completely reversing the pre-earnings underperformance flagged just days ago, with the gold sector carrying…

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Trader NoteSN

SharkNinja Analysts Race to Catch Up After Earnings Beat

SharkNinja delivered a result strong enough to send the stock up nearly 15% on the week — and now the Street is scrambling to reprice a name it has been chasing all year. The post-earnings analyst response was swift…

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Trader NoteRXO

RXO Surges 7% Post-Earnings as Analysts Cut Targets

RXO heads into the week after its August earnings print with a sharp price rally sitting awkwardly against a wave of analyst target reductions — and options traders piling into puts at the highest rate in months. The…

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Trader NoteWEST

WEST Posts Q2 Beat, Street Lifts Target

Westrock Coffee closed its Q2 2026 earnings week at $8.23 — up 14% over the past month — with the headline event now behind it and analysts moving in the same direction. The freshest signal from the Street came the day…

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Trader NoteFIGS

FIGS Surges 33% After Earnings Beat; Shorts Caught Offside

FIGS delivered one of its biggest single-week price moves in years, jumping 33% to $14.26 after a Q2 earnings print that caught a heavily-shorted stock deeply wrong-footed — and the positioning data tells the whole…

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Market Commentary

Big Tech Names Fill a Packed Earnings Week

Three major S&P 500 reports headline the next seven days, with semiconductor and networking giants set to move markets. Cisco Systems reports after Wednesday's close. The $479 billion networking leader carries a modest…

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Trader NoteAVPT

AVPT Analysts Lift Targets After Earnings Dip

AvePoint enters the post-earnings week with analysts moving higher on the stock even as the price slipped — a divergence that captures the central tension around this application software name right now. The company…

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Trader NoteOSCR

Oscar Health CEO Sells $70M as Barclays Lifts Target

OSCR enters the week after earnings with an uncomfortable split: the stock fell 7.3% on its August 6 print, then bounced 5.1% Friday — but the more durable tension sits in the insider register, where CEO Mark Bertolini…

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Trader NoteFROG

JFrog Delivers — Now Analysts Race to Catch Up

FROG printed Q2 earnings on August 6 and jumped 12% on the week to $89.52, triggering the broadest single-day wave of target raises the stock has seen this cycle — and the question now is whether the Street was simply…

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Trader NoteU

Unity Surges 36% on the Week as Analysts Pile In After Q2 Beat

Unity Software has delivered one of its sharpest weekly gains in years, and the post-earnings reaction has triggered a cascade of analyst upgrades that reframes the debate entirely. The earnings print landed on August…

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