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PNQI — Invesco's NASDAQ Internet ETF — has seen a sudden and sharp build in short-side demand over the past two weeks, a move that stands out against an otherwise calm positioning backdrop for the fund. The short…
GLD is entering the back half of July with shorts retreating for a second time and options traders at their most call-heavy in over a year — the rebuild that looked threatening on July 14 has already started to…
AGNC Investment Corp. has now delivered its Q2 earnings print — and the reaction tells the story: the stock fell nearly 4% on the day, short sellers added exposure, and the analyst community responded with fresh target…
BMNR printed two back-to-back positive earnings moves — and short sellers responded by quietly rebuilding, even as the stock held its gains and options traders stayed bullish. The short position tells a story of…
Visa has just reported fiscal Q3 2026 results, and the stock closed Tuesday at $355.82 — down 1.3% on the day but effectively flat on the week, as the pre-earnings hedging that dominated three consecutive weeks of…
Philip Morris International reported Q2 results on July 22 and gave back ground, falling 2.4% on the day to $188.04 — yet the full-week picture remains firmly positive, with the stock up nearly 7% from Monday's open,…
EchoStar enters its August 7 earnings window carrying a genuinely interesting contradiction: short interest has collapsed by nearly a third in six weeks, yet nearly one in five free-float shares remains sold short —…
Teekay Tankers enters its July 29 earnings report trading at $75.56 — up 5% on the day and 4.6% on the week — with options positioning flashing the most defensive signal in months. The sharpest story this week is in…
Forestar Group enters the back half of July under meaningful pressure, with the stock down nearly 11% on the week to $27.02 after reporting quarterly results on July 21 — a selloff that stands in stark contrast to the…
Digital Turbine enters the week before its August 4 earnings with a striking split: two freshly initiated Buy ratings arriving as options traders turn the most defensively positioned they've been in months. The analyst…
MSCI reported earnings on July 21 and the market's verdict was swift: the stock dropped 10% in a single session, erasing all of the optimism that had built through a week of analyst target raises ahead of the…
SPYG has drifted about 1.1% lower on the week to $118.05, but the more telling signal comes from the options market, where defensive positioning has climbed sharply toward a year-high. Options traders have turned…
QQQ clawed back 1.9% on Tuesday to close at $708.97, yet the week as a whole remains down 1.5% — and the short interest picture has shifted in a way that complicates the recovery narrative. The most interesting tension…
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions bounced 5% on Tuesday but is still down 4% on the week and 11% over the past month — and the people closest to the company used that bounce to sell. The insider activity this week is…
CME Group reported earnings this morning and the most striking disconnect is between options traders who have abruptly swung to their most call-heavy posture in months and short sellers who quietly rebuilt positions…
Penske Automotive Group heads into its July 29 earnings report with the mood on the Street cooling at the margin — a fresh downgrade landed this morning, and options traders have turned notably more cautious in just…
BNY closed the week at $158.89 — up nearly 11% over the past month — with a wave of post-earnings target increases narrowing the gap to consensus but leaving a few bulls still unsatisfied with how the stock trades…
AECOM heads into its August 10 earnings with a compelling tension: management has been buying shares near current prices while options traders have turned the most defensively positioned they have been all year. The…
Interactive Brokers Group heads into the post-earnings week with analysts still lifting targets and the stock digesting a strong Q2 beat — the question now is whether the Street's revised numbers have finally caught up…
UNG has done another about-face — the bear rebuild flagged in last week's note has largely unwound, with short interest dropping sharply and the lending market loosening to its most comfortable level in weeks. The…
