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Travere Therapeutics arrives at its October 29 earnings date carrying a stock down 21% in one month and options positioning that has turned sharply more cautious than at any point in recent memory. The starkest signal…
Bentley Systems heads into its November 3 earnings report with short sellers cutting positions at an unusual pace, even as the broader analyst picture turns more constructive. The most striking move this week is the…
GCM Grosvenor ended the week at $12.56, down 4.8%, but the move looks less like a GCMG-specific story and more like sector gravity pulling a smaller manager lower alongside its larger peers. The selling pressure across…
Microsoft enters the final stretch before its October 28 earnings release having slipped 1.2% on the week, with the data snapshot for this note carrying a data-consistency caveat worth flagging upfront. The snapshot…
Shoals Technologies Group heads into its November 10 earnings print with short sellers adding pressure, analysts trimming targets, and the stock down 18% on the week to $7.17. Short positioning has been building…
Keurig Dr Pepper has staged a sharp 9% rally this week, and the shorts are running for the exits ahead of a Q3 earnings print and a pending coffee business spinoff that reshapes the investment case entirely. Short…
USA Rare Earth enters the final stretch before its November 6 earnings with a lending market that has essentially seized up, even as the stock has shed nearly a third of its value over the past month. The short…
SOXS, the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X ETF, has had the week its holders have been waiting for, climbing 43% in five sessions to close at $49.23 as semiconductor stocks came under broad pressure. The price move…
CHPY, the YieldMax Semiconductor Portfolio Option Income ETF, has seen a week of partial short-seller retreat, but the broader picture remains one of unusually heavy bearish positioning for an income-focused ETF. The…
TeraWulf has fallen another 15% on the week to $11.68, accelerating a month-long slide that has now erased nearly a fifth of the stock's value, with the broader crypto-infrastructure peer group offering no refuge. The…
Lucid Group has lost another 17% this week alone, and the short book continues to tighten its grip rather than ease. Since the note published October 8, the numbers have moved in one direction. Short interest has risen…
MNDY enters its November 9 earnings date in an unusual equilibrium: short sellers have retreated sharply over the past two weeks, yet the analyst community has been cutting ratings almost in lockstep, leaving the stock…
CHWY has spent the past week in an unusual position: the stock gained 11% while shorts barely moved, and options traders turned notably less defensive, a combination that sharpens the question of which side is reading…
GRPN enters its November earnings window with a sharp 11% weekly loss, even as the short sellers who dominated this name for months continue to pull back, creating an unusual setup where the stock falls while the bears…
CAR Group heads into the week of October 17 with an unusual split: the stock is rising, short sellers are adding positions, and the borrow market remains comfortably loose. The short-interest build is the week's most…
Iovance Biotherapeutics heads into its November 6 earnings print with the short book still contracting, analyst targets moving sharply higher, and options traders finally starting to hedge. The short unwind has now…
IAM, the Chilean water utility Inversiones Aguas Metropolitanas, enters the week with one story dominating the tape: a sustained campaign of open-market buying by a director-level entity that has not let up since late…
IRPC heads into its November 5 earnings release with the stock at its weakest level in a month, a mean analyst target sitting below the current price, and institutional ownership concentrated firmly in state hands. The…
SNY heads into its October 30 results with short interest rising sharply, options traders rotating away from hedges, and the lending market sending contradictory signals that deserve a closer look. The most striking…
WHK enters the October 17 week with a striking divergence: short interest has tripled since early October, yet the borrow market remains loose and borrowing costs have eased. The sharp move in short interest is the…
