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Trader NoteIMSR

IMSR Catalysts Up as Riot Partnership Lands

IMSR enters its May 14 earnings event with a material news catalyst in hand. Terrestrial Energy announced a partnership with Riot Platforms to develop data centers co-located with advanced nuclear plants — a deal that…

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Trader NotePOM

POM: Borrow Costs Bite as Short Positions Triple in a Week

POM, the Nasdaq-listed Pomdoctor Limited, enters the week caught between a sharp one-month rally and a sudden surge in short positioning that has pushed borrow costs to levels rarely seen in small-cap healthcare. The…

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Trader NoteFLOC

Flowco Clears Earnings Bar as Lock-Up Expiry Looms

FLOC just posted a clean beat on Q1 results — and walked into it carrying a freshly expired lock-up, a dividend hike, and short interest that more than doubled over the past month. The headline numbers were…

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Trader NotePN

Skycorp Solar shorts explode as borrow cost hits 847%

PN entered May having tripled in price in a single week — and the lending market responded with an unprecedented wave of short selling that is now the defining story in this stock. Short interest has become extreme,…

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Trader NoteEGGY

EGGY's Brief Borrow Crunch Has Fully Unwound

EGGY — the Tidal Trust III NestYield Dynamic Income ETF — enters the first week of May with its borrow market completely normalised after a sharp but short-lived squeeze in late April. The more striking story is what…

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Trader NoteBKCG

BKCG Rides a Quiet Month Higher

BKCG, BNY Mellon's Concentrated Growth ETF, has quietly put together its best month of the year — up nearly 10% over the past 30 days to close at $37.30 — while the short-selling community has essentially nothing to…

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Trader NoteSIRI

Analysts Lift Targets as SIRI Shorts Quietly Retreat

Sirius XM heads into its May 28 Q1 results with analysts moving in the same direction for the first time in months, while shorts — still carrying a meaningful position — have been slowly covering since mid-April. The…

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Trader NoteTBH

TBH shorts surge before earnings

Brag House Holdings, Inc. enters tomorrow's earnings print with short interest that has multiplied fourfold since late March — and a borrow market that tells its own story about the pressure building in this micro-cap…

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Trader NoteTEL

TEL shorts retreat, but Street trims targets after Q2 miss

TE Connectivity heads into early May with a stock that has recovered some post-earnings ground, while short sellers quietly rebuild positions and analysts digest a quarter that underwhelmed on datacenter exposure. The…

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Trader NoteAIPI

AIPI Options Shift as ETF Settles Into Calmer Waters

Options positioning on AIPI has turned notably more defensive this week — a sharp pivot from the near-total call dominance that defined April. The clearest signal is in the put/call ratio. It jumped to 0.44 on Tuesday,…

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Trader NoteFERG

Ferguson Beats Estimates, Street Lifts Targets

Ferguson Enterprises reported Q3 results on May 5 and the reaction was complicated — a solid beat triggered multiple analyst upgrades, yet the stock still fell 3% on the day, and is now trading at $252.81, down about…

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Trader NoteSOLV

SOLV beats but the Street trims targets

Solventum Corporation delivered a clean Q1 beat and tightened its full-year guidance — but the post-earnings reaction from analysts tells a more cautious story, as most firms lowered price targets even while holding…

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Trader NoteMNDR

MNDR Shorts Explode From Zero to 47% of Float in Ten Days

MNDR has become one of the most aggressively shorted small-cap names on Nasdaq this week, as a headline-driven price spike drew a massive wave of new short positions in under a fortnight. The catalyst arrived on May 4.…

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