Trader notes, earnings previews, Confluences, weekly digests and roundups — long-form analysis grounded in ORTEX short interest, options flow and analyst data.
All articles — 32530 total
Aptiv enters its August 6 results with a clear and unusual dynamic: short sellers have been covering aggressively, even as the stock drifts lower and the Street wrestles with a wide gap between where the shares trade…
A heavy earnings calendar is setting the tone on August 4. Palantir reports tonight after the bell. Markets will scrutinise its AI-driven revenue trajectory closely. Vertex Pharmaceuticals also posts after the close.…
Options flow is sending mixed signals today. Energy names, chip stocks, and a notable divergence at a mid-cap tech distributor are among the key stories. INGM — Ingram Micro Holding — grabbed attention with an ORTEX…
Options traders turned more bearish on INGM this week. That's happening just as short sellers quietly step back and the borrow market floods with supply. The put-call ratio hit 0.0245 on August 3. That's 2.7 standard…
ON Semiconductor received the headline upgrade of the day. An analyst moved the stock to Buy, with the consensus target price slipping to $111.38 from $113.63. The upgrade signals growing confidence in the chipmaker's…
Insider filings this week revealed a striking split. Executives at ACI bought stock while insiders at THC and VSXY rushed for the exit. At Albertsons, the CEO and CFO were both buyers. CEO Susan Morris filed two…
Short sellers are moving fast. Data from ORTEX as of August 3 shows some sharp week-on-week shifts worth watching. RZLV tops the cost-to-borrow chart. RZLV (Rezolve AI) now carries a 158% borrow rate. That's an 818%…
Equity ETFs pulled in $68.6B last week. That is the dominant story across every dimension of fund flows right now. US equities led geography with $19.8B in net inflows. Japan was close behind at $11.6B. China grabbed…
Options traders are turning bullish on TQQQ at the same time short sellers face a tightening borrow market. The put-call ratio has hit its lowest point in 20 days. Meanwhile, availability in the lending pool keeps…
A Fed official dominated headlines today. Governor Paulson said inflation is still too high and policy needs to stay "mildly restrictive." He added it was not a close call to hold rates steady. That comment put a lid…
Wall Street turned bearish on NKE Monday. The consensus on Nike was downgraded, with the average analyst target price slipping to $50.66 from $51.00. The move pushes the buy/hold/sell split to 3/24/12 — one of the more…
Corporate insiders filed a flurry of notable trades this week. Sellers dominated the headlines. Charles Schwab's founder and co-chairman, Charles R. Schwab, disclosed $15.2M in sales of SCHW stock. Two separate…
Three signals are now moving in the same direction on VERX. Short sellers are covering, borrow costs have collapsed, and yet options traders just printed the most defensive read in months. The data points don't fully…
Palantir is the story of the morning. The stock is up 16% in premarket trading after blowout Q2 earnings. CEO Alex Karp used the results to attack rival AI labs, calling them too focused on open-source idealism over…
Analysts are moving fast on August 4. Three notable downgrades and one meaningful upgrade are shifting the landscape across healthcare, retail, and semiconductors. ON Semiconductor claimed the day's top upgrade.…
Insiders at two major US companies filed significant sell transactions last week, with the filings landing in close succession across the brokerage and healthcare sectors. Charles Schwab, founder and co-chairman of…
Short sellers are hunting two high-profile names hard. HTZ tops the most-shorted list with 80.9% of free float sold short. Availability has fallen to zero. There are simply no more shares to borrow. LCID is not far…
Information Technology pulled in $13B this week. That is the single biggest sector story. It dwarfs every other sector combined. Yet over three months, the picture is even larger — Tech has absorbed $77.5B. The buying…
TLRY is flashing a rare split signal. The lending market is near its tightest point on record — yet options traders are flooding into calls, not puts. Availability has fallen to just 3.5% — meaning roughly one share…
Arista Networks reports after the close today. The data going in tells one clear story: bulls are in control. Six firms raised price targets on ANET in July alone. Needham lifted its target to $200 on July 22. Wells…
