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MBGL closed Thursday at $19.80, down 6.6% on the day — a sharp single-session drop for a stock with almost no public trading history to anchor it. The borrow market tells a story of very early-stage positioning.…
Tradeweb Markets heads into its July 30 earnings with a 12% weekly gain, a fresh Goldman upgrade, and options traders leaning decidedly bullish — a setup that puts the next results print squarely in focus. The Goldman…
Insider filings over the past two weeks reveal a wave of significant selling by C-suite leaders and major shareholders across US-listed stocks. The biggest US name: BABA President J. Michael Evans filed on July 1 that…
DOV enters July with a striking divergence: the stock is up nearly 10% on the week, yet the borrow market tightened sharply and the ORTEX short score jumped its most in months — a combination worth watching as August…
Perrigo Company plc is caught in a sharp divergence: the stock posted its strongest weekly gain in months while short sellers were simultaneously rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in over a year. Short interest…
POET Technologies enters the July 4 holiday weekend with short sellers adding to already heavy positions, the borrow market tightening sharply, and a stock that has fallen another 14% on the week to $8.76 — even as a…
Capricor Therapeutics closes the July 4 week at $23.21 — down 24% on the month, 24% on the week — with the short position still near multi-month highs and the August 6 earnings date drawing closer. The structural short…
LULU enters the July 4 holiday weekend with a peculiar split: short interest has surged to its highest level in months, yet the borrow market shows no sign of stress and options traders have stepped back from the…
FLSmidth & Co. heads into its August 19 earnings date on the back of a strong week, with the borrow market offering no structural resistance to the upside. The week's most interesting angle is the divergence between…
AXON has just printed one of its most violent weekly moves in recent memory, and the question now is whether the short-covering that accompanied the 34% surge has run its course — or whether there are more forced exits…
Stanley Black & Decker closed the week at $91.90 — essentially flat on the week while every correlated industrial peer posted meaningful losses, a divergence that makes the setup worth examining ahead of a July 29…
GPC is no longer trading as an auto-parts distributor — it's trading as a deal target, and the short book is adjusting accordingly. Short interest fell roughly 2.6% on July 2 alone, pulling the week's net change to…
AppLovin enters the holiday-shortened week having delivered one of the more violent price swings in software this year — up 18% on the week yet down 7% on Thursday alone — while the underlying positioning data tells a…
BX heads into its July 17 earnings report on the back of a strong week — up 7.5% to $122.78 — while options positioning quietly turns less cautious than it has been in months. The most revealing signal this week is in…
CrowdStrike heads into the July 4 holiday week with one of the most unusual options readings of the past year sitting alongside a short-selling picture that is conspicuously calm. The options market is the story right…
Iridium Communications enters the July 4 holiday weekend with one of the most striking weekly setups in the satellite communications space: a 28% price rally that has simultaneously triggered short covering, a Morgan…
MercadoLibre enters its July 31 earnings window off a strong week, up nearly 9% to $1,763, while short sellers have been cutting exposure at the fastest pace in months — creating an unusually clean setup heading into…
Monolithic Power Systems enters the week after the July 4th holiday carrying a bruising 10.4% loss, even as the positioning data tells a story of shorts retreating rather than pressing. The stock closed Thursday at…
Short sellers ramped up bets against HTZ this week. Hertz now carries a massive 59.2% SI % of FF. That's up nearly 11 points in just seven days. With zero share availability left, borrowing more stock is essentially…
Vishay Intertechnology enters the July 4 holiday week at the centre of one of the more dramatic repositioning stories in the electronic components space — short sellers have aggressively rebuilt positions into a 23%…
