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Short sellers made notable moves this week. Three names stood out: a SpaceX-linked ETF, a struggling rental car giant, and a battered chipmaker. SpaceX ETF shorts explode SPCX, the Space Exploration Technologies ETF,…
Markets opened higher today after a better-than-expected CPI print. Futures for the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq 100 all rose on the data. The Redbook retail sales index also beat, up 8.2% year-on-year for the week ended…
Three market forces are shaping options sentiment today. US-Iran tensions, an AI data center freeze, and a surge in small caps are all creating unusual positioning signals. Oil is the loudest story. USO short interest…
Short sellers have been cutting positions in SMTC at a striking pace. Short interest has dropped 23.9% over the past week to 4.6% of free float — the lowest level since late June. Yet the options market tells a…
Analysts delivered a sharp blow to CSGP on Monday. Baird downgraded CoStar Group from Buy to Hold. The firm slashed its price target from $48 to $34 — a 29% cut. The $11.6 billion real estate data company now carries…
Insider filings over the past month reveal a sharp divide between buyers and sellers across US equities. The most striking buying cluster is at AVO. GlobalHarvest Holdings, a 10% owner, filed purchases worth over $32M…
Options positioning at SFNC hit a one-year extreme on Monday. The put/call ratio jumped to 1.14 — a 52-week high and nearly 19 times the 20-day average of 0.17. With earnings scheduled for Wednesday July 16, that…
Short interest data as of July 13 reveals some sharp moves across US markets. The biggest story is SpaceX (SPCX), where SI % of Free Float jumped to 26.1% from just 3.7% a week ago — a 22-point leap. That's one of the…
Why this matters: Three signals converged on EQBK overnight. Short interest jumped 66% in one week. Options traders piled into calls at the fastest pace in months. Earnings land after the close today. SI hit 3.71% of…
Why this matters: Infleqtion's lending market has undergone a structural shift in six weeks. Availability collapsed from above 3,900% in early June to just 5.5% today. That's not noise — it's a near-total drainage of…
Options traders are flooding into calls. Short sellers are covering. Analysts keep raising targets. Nine days before Seagate Technology Holdings reports earnings, three separate data streams are pointing the same…
A striking divergence has opened in IWO. The lending market is near-frozen. Yet options traders are the most bullish they've been in months. The borrow market for the iShares Russell 2000 Growth ETF has tightened…
BAC kicked off Q2 reporting this morning. NFLX and UNH follow on Thursday. CRWD published its Q1 2027 earnings call transcript today. The results season is building momentum fast. Surgical robotics leader ISRG also…
Analysts lifted price targets on two major US homebuilders Monday. D.R. Horton now has a consensus target of $168. PulteGroup follows at $139.77. Both moves reflect growing confidence in housing demand despite rate…
Filings posted July 10 show a wave of insider selling across several US names. The biggest single-stock pattern is at DELL. Silver Lake Group sold over $17M worth of Dell shares on July 8 across multiple transactions,…
Short sellers made a dramatic move into SPCX last week. Short interest jumped 21.6 percentage points. The SI % FF hit 25.2% — up from just 3.7% seven days earlier. That's one of the sharpest single-week spikes in the…
Three bearish signals have converged on CW within 48 hours. The put-call ratio, short interest, and cost to borrow are all moving in the same direction — and the options market is flashing the loudest warning of…
Three signals on WEN converged overnight. The options market moved sharply. The borrow market loosened. Short interest — still enormous — continues its slow retreat. The put-call ratio collapsed to 0.38 on July 13.…
Q2 earnings season hit its stride today. BAC reported before the open, with bulls firmly in control — short interest sits at just 1.3% of free float. UNH and NFLX both report Thursday. Netflix carries only 2.4% short…
Earnings season and rising US-Iran tensions are driving a notable shift in options sentiment across several key sectors today. Airlines are the sharpest focus. UAL reports earnings today and bears are moving fast.…
