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Today kicks off a heavyweight week for corporate results. Baker Hughes and Cadence Design Systems report this evening. F5 also posts after the close on Monday. Tuesday is the busiest day. Coca-Cola reports before the…
Analyst activity on Sunday showed a clear split between cable and defense. Charter Communications took the hardest hit. The average analyst target price fell to $187.35 from $205.00 — a drop of nearly $18. That is a…
Kforce Inc. reported Q2 earnings on July 27. The signals that pointed to a bullish setup ahead of that print have now resolved. Short sellers have cut further, the borrow market has loosened sharply, and call…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. CHWY (Chewy) leads the movers — SI jumped nearly 16 percentage points in seven days to 79.2% of free float. That's one of the heaviest short loads of any mid-cap US stock…
The bear retreat in UNG has deepened further. Short interest has now fallen to 5.6% of free float, down 29% week-on-week. That extends the unwind flagged in last week's note, which itself had already pulled back from…
IREN ended the week at $37.07 — a rare bounce of 10% on the week, but only after shedding another 9% on Friday and still down 32% over the past month, all while its short base quietly set a new high. The borrow picture…
Workday heads into its August 25 earnings date carrying an awkward split: short sellers are rushing for the exit while one of Wall Street's most-watched analysts just moved to the sidelines. The most striking…
AST SpaceMobile enters the week with its most significant short-covering in over a month — yet the borrow market has tightened further still, leaving the setup more constrained than ever ahead of August earnings. The…
Markets are laser-focused on what may be the biggest earnings week of 2026. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, and Qualcomm all report before Friday. Apple alone carries nearly a $4.9 trillion market cap. Together…
Analysts trimmed targets across several names on Sunday. The most striking move hit Charter Communications. Its average target price dropped sharply to $187.94 from $205. That is an $17 move lower. Charter also carries…
Insider filings this week reveal a clear trend: heavy selling at the top, with a few contrarian buyers making bold moves in beaten-down names. Carlos Slim filed on July 22 to disclose he has sold over $130M worth of…
Short sellers made bold moves in the past week. CLBK (Columbia Financial) saw the biggest jump — SI % of Free Float leapt from 5.3% to 33.8%, a 28-point surge in just seven days. CHWY (Chewy) also drew heavy attention.…
A dramatic geographic reversal defined the past week. China pulled in $8.1B in net ETF inflows, topping all geographies. That stands in sharp contrast to the 3-month trend, where China was a net loser at -$3.4B. The…
The lending market for IONQ has reached a critical point. Availability has collapsed to just 1.25% — meaning only one share is available to borrow for every 80 already lent out. That is a 95% drop in a single week. At…
Why this matters — Convergence signals are rare. They require three or more independent ORTEX data streams to align on a single ticker within days. This week produced 38 such events. Borrow market tightening was the…
The XLC Communication Services ETF is sending a consistent message across three data streams. Bears have been retreating for weeks. Now options traders are joining that view. The put-call ratio dropped to 5.22 on July…
Sentiment read — Options activity split sharply this week. Earnings-driven put buying dominated in EDA software, construction, and biotech. On the other side, banks and energy names saw aggressive call buying — several…
Short covering dominated the week of July 20. Korea-linked ETFs saw dramatic SI drops, while biotech and borrow markets told a more bearish story. A handful of names bucked the trend — shorts added exposure in…
The week in one paragraph — Q2 earnings season dominated every signal category from July 20–27. Short sellers covered aggressively across ETFs, megacaps, and cyclicals, while options markets lit up with pre-earnings…
The week of July 28 kicks off one of the year's most data-heavy stretches. MSFT, META, AAPL, and AMZN all report in a four-day window, representing well over $11 trillion in combined market cap. Macro data is…
