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Short sellers intensified bets across several names this week. The latest ORTEX data as of July 21 shows clear movers — with rental car giant HTZ and semiconductor maker WOLF drawing the heaviest attention. HTZ now…
NCH2 enters the final stretch before its August 12 earnings with borrowing costs off their peak but the underlying lending squeeze very much intact. The clearest update since the earlier note this week is that cost to…
TeraWulf heads into its August 5 earnings date with a growing contradiction at its core: the Street is raising targets and piling in with Buy ratings, while short sellers are doing almost nothing to reduce a…
Lucid Group heads into August earnings with the borrow market back at its most extreme level — availability near zero, cost to borrow still above 200%, and short interest holding firmly above 19% of float after a 58%…
Hertz Global Holdings enters the final two weeks before its August 6 earnings with the bear book at its heaviest level yet, availability still pinned at zero, and the ORTEX short score ticking up to a new high for the…
EverCommerce heads into its August 5 earnings print with a borrow market that has partially thawed but remains structurally hostile to new shorts — and an options market that has just flashed its most call-friendly…
AST SpaceMobile now has the tightest borrow market of the past year — and yesterday's 10% price surge has done nothing to shake the bears out. The lending story is the one that changed overnight. Availability has…
KORU, the Direxion Daily MSCI South Korea Bull 3X Shares ETF, is sending a split signal this week: the borrow market is quietly easing while options traders have made a sharp pivot toward calls — a contrast that…
GRPN has pulled back 7% on Tuesday to $26.05, but the squeeze mechanics that have defined this name for weeks remain firmly in place — and the borrow market just got tighter, not looser. The most important development…
HUT continues to hold its ground while the Vietnamese construction sector bleeds out — a relative resilience story that remains intact and is, if anything, becoming more pronounced. Tasco's defensive quality is best…
XOP rallied another 2.2% on Tuesday and is up nearly 5% on the week, yet the short thesis against the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas E&P ETF has not budged — the more interesting question now is whether the brief snapback in…
TEL, Romania's state-controlled electricity transmission operator, enters its August 14 earnings window on a strong run — up 19% in a month — while short interest data is absent and analyst coverage is thin, making…
GameStop heads into Wednesday with two stories running in parallel — a corporate drama that is getting louder, and a positioning picture that has barely moved in response. The options market remains the most charged…
TLT enters the second half of July in a state of uneasy equilibrium: bears rebuilt aggressively three weeks ago, have held that ground through the subsequent consolidation, and are now drifting sideways with no clear…
AXT, Inc. enters its July 30 earnings week with the most interesting development being not what shorts are doing, but what they are stopping doing. Bears have started trimming. Short interest peaked at 11.75 million…
Standard Nuclear, Inc. has had a turbulent few days — an earnings beat that sent the stock surging has been followed by a rapid rebuild of short positioning, with the borrow market tightening at a pace that makes this…
ENRD enters the back half of July in a painful spot: the stock has lost nearly a quarter of its value in a single week, even as the borrow market that had been the bears' biggest constraint begins to loosen. The price…
Infleqtion enters the final stretch before its August 14 earnings with a lending market that remains near critically tight, a short position that has quintupled since mid-June, and a freshly assembled analyst consensus…
PURR heads into late July with a striking disconnect: short sellers are piling in at the fastest pace in months, while options traders are growing more bullish than they have been all year. The short-interest story is…
NAVN heads into the back half of July with a striking contradiction: the stock has risen 21% in a month, yet short sellers have nearly doubled their position in the same window. The short interest story is the week's…
