Trader notes, earnings previews, Confluences, weekly digests and roundups — long-form analysis grounded in ORTEX short interest, options flow and analyst data.
All articles — 32645 total
Short sellers made a bold move into SPCX this week. Short interest in Space Exploration Technologies jumped from 3.65% to 26.07% of free float — a 22-point surge in just seven days. That is one of the biggest…
Trump abandoned a proposed 20% Strait of Hormuz fee early this morning. Gulf states agreed to make record investments in the US instead. CENTCOM confirmed the naval blockade remains in place. Oil markets are watching…
Earnings season is driving a sharp split in options sentiment. Bears and bulls are staking out positions across airlines, streaming and crypto — ahead of a heavy reporting week. UAL is the standout name. ORTEX data…
Today kicks off a packed earnings week. CAG held its Q4 2026 call this morning. HPHA also reported first-half results in Europe. Tomorrow, Thursday July 16, is the biggest day. NFLX drops Q2 2026 results after the…
Wall Street analysts are reshuffling their views on US financials. The moves follow a busy earnings week across the banking sector. Bank of America was the standout downgrade. Analysts cut their recommendation on the…
Karooooo reports today with a single analyst move reshaping the pre-earnings conversation — and a lending market that has tightened sharply enough to be worth watching. Needham raised its price target to $70 from $60…
Equity Bancshares reports today with an unusual split in positioning — short sellers have moved aggressively one direction while options traders have moved just as forcefully the other. Short interest has more than…
BMNR reports today with short sellers still meaningfully exposed — but the covering trend and a surging stock price have shifted the balance of pressure heading into the print. The short position has continued…
United Airlines Holdings arrives at its Q2 earnings release with a contradictory setup: short sellers have piled in aggressively, yet the analyst community has spent two weeks raising targets in near-unison. Short…
Filings from the past week reveal a sharp split in executive sentiment — heavy selling at several US names offset by aggressive buying at an avocado distributor. RH CEO dumps $19M. Gary Friedman, Chairman and CEO of…
ASML opens earnings day having done something its semiconductor equipment peers could not: hold ground. Tuesday's session saw ASML close up nearly 1% to €1,555.80, a quiet but pointed contrast to the broader peer…
ManpowerGroup heads into its Q2 earnings tomorrow with short sellers notably more aggressive than they were a month ago — while the broader staffing sector rallied around it on Tuesday. The short interest story is the…
F.N.B. Corporation reports Q2 results today with an unusual split between growing short interest and a broadly constructive analyst community. Short sellers have been adding pressure into the print. At 8.6% of free…
WIT arrives at its July 16 Q1 FY2027 earnings report with the lending market continuing to thaw — yet the stock itself has deteriorated further, creating a split signal that makes tomorrow's print more consequential…
Short sellers made a dramatic move into SPCX this week. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. saw its SI % of Free Float jump 22 percentage points in seven days. It rose from 3.65% to 26.07% as of July 13. That is one…
UnitedHealth Group arrives at its July 16 Q2 earnings report with one of the most unified analyst setups in the sector, a stock that has clawed back most of its April collapse — and options traders who still haven't…
STT arrives at Wednesday's Q2 earnings release with a notable complication the July 11 preview did not face: the stock at $183.65 has already run through several of the targets that analysts raised just weeks ago, up…
Johnson & Johnson arrives at its Q2 2026 earnings release trading at $253.85, roughly $8 below the Street's consensus mean price target of $262.27 — the widest discount to analyst estimates this stock has seen in the…
Oil hit $87 a barrel on Tuesday as US-Iran hostilities escalated. Brent crude climbed after the US responded to Iranian tanker attacks with fresh strikes in the Strait of Hormuz. Stocks and bonds fell. Investors moved…
Today kicks off a packed earnings calendar. CAG holds its Q4 2026 call this morning. ISRG reports Q2 after the bell tomorrow, Wednesday July 16. The biggest name of the week is NFLX. The streaming giant posts Q2…
