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Trader NoteSKYQ

SKYQ shorts surge tenfold as borrow costs hit 355%

Sky Quarry heads into the final week of April with short sellers piling in at a pace rarely seen in small-cap oil names — short interest exploding tenfold in a week while borrowing costs remain punishingly high, all…

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Trader NoteFBLG

FBLG: Equity Raise Clouds a Recovering Story

FibroBiologics arrives at its May 8 earnings date carrying two conflicting signals: a stock up 11% on the week and a $6.15 million equity offering announced May 1 that immediately frames how that rally will be…

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Trader NoteSSII

SSII Weighs $150M Shelf as Shorts Quietly Exit

SS Innovations International enters the week after May Day with a sharp contrast between what the company just signalled and what bears have been doing. A $150M shelf registration filed late on May 1 — the kind of…

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Trader NotePODC

PodcastOne shorts exit as CFO departs and guidance lands

PodcastOne is heading into its next earnings print on May 29 with shorts in full retreat, a CFO change on the books, and a stock that has nearly doubled in two months — a combination that raises the volume on an…

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Trader NoteHUBC

HUBC Free-Falls After Reverse Split Misfires

HUB Cyber Security has lost nearly 90% of its value in a single month — a collapse that puts the Israeli cybersecurity firm in genuinely precarious territory heading into a May 8 earnings call. The catalyst is not hard…

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Trader NoteNVDL

NVDL Borrow Costs Rise 47% as Short Sellers Pull Back

NVDL, the GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF, enters the new week with a curious divergence: short sellers have been quietly reducing positions while the cost of borrowing shares has climbed sharply, making the bears…

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Trader NoteGMM

GMM Heads Into Summer With AI Partnership Catalyst in Play

Global Mofy AI Limited enters May off a rough month but with a potentially meaningful catalyst already in the market. The stock closed at $1.31 on May 1st, down roughly 13% over the past month and off 4.4% on the week.…

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Trader NoteSCLX

SCLX Rockets 58% on Datavault Deal

Scilex Holding Company enters May after one of its most violent weekly moves in recent memory — a 58% rally driven by a headline deal, yet one where the short and borrow data tell a story of quiet disengagement rather…

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Trader NoteWOK

WOK Short Score Jumps as Borrow Market Tightens

WORK Medical Technology Group LTD enters May with a sharp jump in short positioning that stands in contrast to its recent price gains. The stock closed at $1.29 on May 1, up 6.6% on the day and 7.5% on the week. Yet…

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Trader NoteSNTI

SNTI shorts double as Celadon deal looms

Senti Biosciences heads into its May 6 earnings call with short sellers piling in at a pace not seen in months — and a fresh $40 million financing deal raising its own questions about dilution. The short interest story…

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Trader NoteHTCR

HTCR Shorts Retreat After Reverse Split Compliance Win

HeartCore Enterprises heads into the first week of May with shorts in full retreat and a fresh Nasdaq compliance win drawing renewed attention to a stock that spent much of the first quarter fighting for its…

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Trader NoteBJDX

BJDX shorts retreat after a brutal six-week squeeze

Bluejay Diagnostics enters May having shed the short position built up during one of the most compressed stretches the stock has seen in over a year. The defining move of the past six weeks was a dramatic unwinding of…

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Trader NoteINDP

INDP Crashes 35% on the Week Ahead of May Earnings

Indaptus Therapeutics heads into its May 11 Q1 earnings with the stock in freefall, short interest at a multi-month high, and a director having just unloaded more than $10 million in shares. The week's price action is…

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Trader NoteXOS

XOS Insiders Sell Into Rally as Earnings Loom

Xos, Inc. heads into its May 13 earnings report with the CEO, COO, and CFO all selling shares — even as the stock quietly grinds higher. The insider activity is the clearest signal this week. The CEO and founder Dakota…

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