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Corporate insiders have been busy filing this week, with fresh disclosures revealing a sharp split between confident buyers and determined sellers. The biggest seller story comes from Japan. Tadashi Yanai, founder and…
Short sellers are making bold moves this week. Two names stand out for very different reasons. HTZ leads the charge on the bearish side. Hertz short interest jumped to 76.7% of free float — up 6.3 percentage points in…
The biggest single shift this week: China ETFs pulled in $19.0B in net inflows over seven days. That is a dramatic reversal. Over the prior three months, China was a net outflow of $5.0B. A flow imbalance reading of 76…
Wells Fargo pulled back 1.5% on Wednesday to $86.42. Options traders are the most defensive they've been in two weeks. The put/call ratio hit 1.38 on July 22. That's 2.2 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of…
Today is one of the most important days on the calendar. GOOGL reports after the close tonight. Investors are watching AI revenue closely. IBM and TXN also print today. The week builds from here. INTC, RTX, and TMUS…
Options traders are leaning decisively bullish heading into a packed earnings week, with call-side bets dominating across several key names. MXL leads the signal board. MaxLinear's options market flipped bullish as…
MaxLinear reports Q2 results tonight having staged a sharp recovery from last week's lows — and the options market has shifted decisively in the bulls' favour, even as the short base remains stubbornly intact. The most…
NBBK enters its July 24 Q2 earnings print with options markets tilting toward optimism and the lending pool showing no meaningful short-seller conviction. Options positioning is the clearest indicator of pre-earnings…
FTAI Aviation reports after Thursday's close with the stock having recovered some ground — up 5.8% Wednesday to $222.49 — but still 19% below its one-month high, and the market's two competing readings of the company's…
Third Coast Bancshares heads into its Q2 earnings report today with options positioning signalling more caution than usual, even as the lending market remains relaxed. The clearest shift is in options. The put/call…
The Vita Coco Company heads into its Q2 earnings today with options traders making one of the most aggressively bullish bets on the stock seen in the past year — even as short sellers pile in and insiders have been…
Ardagh Metal Packaging reports this morning with the pre-earnings borrow drama that dominated the past two weeks now largely in the rearview mirror. The borrow story has resolved in the direction suggested by the…
Summit Therapeutics reports Q2 results tonight — and the setup is defined less by short positioning than by an unusually loud insider conviction signal meeting an equally divided analyst community. The insider story…
Essential Properties Realty Trust reports Q2 results today with the stock up 11% over the past month and short positioning that remains notably uncrowded heading into the print. The borrow market is relaxed.…
OBK heads into its Q2 earnings report on July 23 with options traders unusually bullish and short sellers sitting comfortably on the sidelines. The clearest pre-earnings signal is in options, and it points firmly…
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts reports Q2 results this morning with the options market still flashing caution and the analyst community split between trimming targets and raising them — a genuine two-sided debate heading…
Liberty Energy reports Q2 results today with short sellers meaningfully more aggressive than they were 30 days ago. Short interest has climbed 29% over the past month to 9.3% of the free float — a level that makes this…
Medpace Holdings reports its second-quarter results on July 23 against a backdrop of unwinding bearish conviction, yet a freshly divided analyst community that has turned more cautious on valuation just as the stock…
Live Oak Bancshares reports this morning with options positioning flashing the most defensive signal seen in months — even as short sellers remain largely on the sidelines. The starkest shift heading into the print is…
American Airlines heads into its Q2 earnings report today with options traders at their most defensive in months — and short sellers quietly rebuilding positions into the release. The clearest pre-earnings signal comes…
