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Insider activity over the past month reveals a sharp split between aggressive buyers and high-profile sellers. The standout buying story is AVO — Mission Produce. A 10% owner, GlobalHarvest Holdings, filed purchases…
Short sellers turned up the heat on electric vehicle names and high-profile private listings this week, with data as of July 17 revealing some notable moves. LCID tops the pressure chart. Lucid Group's SI % FF hit…
Three signals on MSOS are pointing the same direction. Short sellers are retreating, borrowing costs have collapsed, and options traders are piling into calls. The moves are sharp and simultaneous. That combination is…
Options positioning on OEF, the iShares S&P 100 ETF, has shifted sharply bullish. That shift comes even as borrow costs climb to their highest level since early June. The put-call ratio fell to 1.70 on July 17. That is…
Something unusual is happening in Teradyne's lending market. Shorts are exiting fast — yet the cost to borrow just surged nearly 200% in a single week. The two moves usually don't run together. Short interest fell to…
Why this matters — Convergence signals are rare. They require three or more distinct ORTEX data types to align on the same ticker within a tight window. This week produced 28 such events. Earnings-driven short…
Sentiment read — Options activity in the week of July 13 was dominated by two opposing forces. Heavy put buying clustered around upcoming earnings events, most starkly in FMX and SNA. On the other side, ACEL saw…
Short sellers were active the week of July 13. Borrow costs exploded on several names, led by a leveraged ETF tracking Micron hitting 441% of float. Earnings season drove positioning on both sides — bears loaded up on…
The week in one paragraph — Q2 earnings season dominated the week's positioning. 1,066 signals fired across the ORTEX platform as short sellers, options traders, and analysts realigned ahead of a dense reporting…
The week of July 20–27 arrives with no formal earnings in the payload but a dense non-earnings catalyst calendar dominated by semiconductor and AI hardware events. NVDA presents at SIGGRAPH today and the DAC…
US equity futures rose Monday after President Trump declared Iran "very, very badly damaged." The de-escalation signal lifted risk appetite. Oil traders remain cautious though. The Strait of Hormuz closure is still…
The week kicks off today with two after-close reports. CCK (Crown Holdings) and STLD (Steel Dynamics) both report Q2 results at 4pm ET on Monday, offering an early read on industrial and packaging demand. Tuesday…
Analysts lifted price targets across tech, banking, and utilities on Sunday. Semiconductor tester TER saw the biggest tech move. The consensus target rose to $429.88, up from $426.35. Short interest sits at just 5.3%…
Two very different insider signals emerged this week. Elevance Health's CEO stepped up with a major purchase. Meanwhile, a venture backer of ServiceTitan has been selling relentlessly. Elevance Health's CEO buys the…
Three days before INFY reports on July 23, the cost to borrow its shares has doubled in a week. That's the sharpest escalation in the data since the borrow market first broke down in early June. Cost to borrow hit…
Earnings season enters its most critical stretch today. GOOGL reports Wednesday after the bell, with a $2 trillion market cap on the line. AI monetisation and cloud growth are the key questions. Options hedging is…
Markets face a packed schedule this week. GOOGL kicks off the heavyweight action on Wednesday, July 22, after the bell. The $2 trillion search giant reports Q2 2026 results — AI monetisation and cloud growth will be…
Analysts delivered a split verdict on US financials today. U.S. Bancorp earned an upgrade, lifting its average target price to $69.64. Truist Financial went the other way. It was downgraded, with consensus shifting…
Silver Lake Group — a 10% owner and board member at DELL — filed over $213 million in sales this month. The firm offloaded shares across more than 100 separate transactions. Prices ranged from roughly $408 to $452 per…
Short sellers made dramatic moves this week. SPCX — Space Exploration Technologies — saw the steepest rise among large-caps. SI % of FF jumped from 3.7% to 27.6% in just seven days. That's a near-24 percentage point…
