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LI enters the final stretch before its August 27 earnings report with the lending market fully locked, options traders at their most defensive in a year, and a stock that has shed 28% since January — a setup where…
The story at TCHP this week is one of rapid short-position unwind, with the lending market flipping from tight to flush in a matter of days. Short interest has collapsed. The ETF's short position dropped 44%…
DraftKings has now fallen 10% in the month since the last note, landing at $23.85 — and the Street's response this week has been to cut targets rather than hold the line. The analyst tone has shifted since the July 15…
Otis Worldwide reported Q2 earnings on July 22, and the market's reaction will define how the contradictory signals that built ahead of the print — aggressive call buying, quietly growing short interest — resolve. The…
Weatherford International delivered its Q2 print on July 22 — and the week's real story is whether the aggressive call positioning that drove the pre-earnings setup gets vindicated or unwound. Options traders had…
Datadog heads into its August 6 earnings report with one of the more interesting disconnects in software this week: a flood of bullish analyst revisions hitting the tape while the stock itself falls 6% on the week to…
BridgeBio Pharma heads into its July 31 earnings print with one of the sharpest options sentiment reversals in the past year — even as the stock has climbed 24% in a month. The options market is flashing a warning that…
Red Cat Holdings enters its July 27 earnings report in a genuinely unusual position: short sellers have been adding to positions for a month straight, the borrow market is completely locked, and options traders are…
CrowdStrike enters the final week of July down 9% on the week to $191.15, reversing most of the 12% gap-up from July 15 — and the tension sits squarely between analysts lifting targets through the weakness and short…
MEC enters its August 4 earnings date carrying a short position that has nearly doubled over the past month — even as the stock fell 13% and analysts raised their targets. Short interest is the headline tension this…
ZM heads into its August 17 earnings with a rare divergence: options traders are the most bullish they've been all year, while shorts have been quietly adding positions over the past month. The options signal is the…
PINS heads into its August 3 earnings report with short sellers retreating, analysts nudging targets higher, and options traders turning incrementally more bullish — a setup that contrasts with the heavier bearish…
Tronox Holdings enters its August 5 earnings date with a deteriorating analyst setup, a 9% one-day bounce that has done little to repair the month's damage, and short interest at a multi-month high — a combination that…
PD enters the back half of the week in a difficult spot: a fresh Morgan Stanley downgrade landed Tuesday, insiders have been selling consistently into the recent price recovery, and the stock has given back nearly 15%…
Dow Inc. arrives at its Q2 earnings call on July 23 with the analyst and short-seller communities already having delivered their verdict — and neither is flattering. Since the earnings preview published two days ago,…
FUTU heads into its August 20 earnings date with an interesting split: the stock is up 5.6% on the week and short sellers are quietly trimming positions, yet options traders are running more defensively than usual. The…
DELL has given back nearly 12% on the week to close at $404.15, and short sellers — who spent the past month covering aggressively — are now rebuilding positions into the pullback. The short interest reversal is the…
Diversified Energy Company enters its August 11 earnings window with short interest running at a 30-day high and two bullish analysts lowering price targets in the same week — a combination that puts the stock's 6.2%…
CI gave back ground this week — down 4.2% to $290.49 — but the underlying positioning data continues to tell a story of diminishing bearish conviction ahead of the July 30 earnings print. The short retreat that defined…
Ondas Inc. posted an 11.5% single-day gain on Tuesday, closing at $7.66 — yet the short position that has defined this stock for weeks extended to another record high the same day. The price bounce is the cleanest…
