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COPX, the Global X Copper Miners ETF, enters July with a notable split: short sellers are covering aggressively even as the fund itself posts a bruising monthly loss. The most striking move this week is the pace of…
CorMedix heads into July with a stubborn short base, a stock down nearly 9% on the week, and an August earnings date that is moving from background noise to front-of-mind. The short side of the ledger is the defining…
LyondellBasell enters July under heavy selling pressure, down 21% in a single month to $52.65, with short sellers accelerating bets against it and the Street cutting targets across the board. The most striking…
General Motors has now slipped another 2.4% on the week to $77.08, extending the retreat from Mary Barra's $85 sell cluster into a roughly $8 gap — and with earnings three weeks out, that gap is becoming the defining…
STNG heads into July with a fresh analyst downgrade compounding a sector-wide selloff, leaving the stock down 15% on the week and facing its first bearish call from a bank that was bullish just seven weeks ago. The…
TQQQ enters July with rare momentum behind it — the 3x leveraged Nasdaq-100 ETF posted a 9% weekly gain and a 5% single-day move on June 30, while short sellers quietly unwound positions through the rally. The most…
EyePoint Pharmaceuticals heads into July with a sharp analyst upgrade colliding against a short base that refuses to budge — a tension that defines the stock's setup heading into its July 31 earnings event. The most…
Constellation Energy heads into July with its sharpest month-long selloff in recent memory — down 14% over 30 days and 8% on the week to $248.37 — just as a cluster of analyst target cuts confirms the Street is…
EIS, the iShares MSCI Israel ETF, enters July with short sellers pulling back sharply — even as the ETF itself gives up ground on the month. The most striking development in the lending market is how quickly borrow…
GLD closed out Q2 with its most aggressive short-building episode in months — short interest nearly doubled from late-May levels even as the ETF shed 12% over the same period, creating a rare moment where bears are…
BMNR heads into a July 10 earnings print with short sellers accelerating positions at the fastest pace in months — even as the stock slides and options traders stay stubbornly bullish. The short interest story here is…
Visa pushes to $343.09 — up another 4.4% on the week — even as its CEO sells $7 million of stock and options traders hold their most defensive posture of the year. The most concrete development this week is at the…
Philip Morris International has clawed back 1.2% on the week to close at $180.91, reversing much of the weakness flagged in last week's note — but options positioning suggests investors are not yet ready to drop their…
XME, the SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF, heads into July with a striking split: short sellers rebuilt positions aggressively through June even as the fund dropped 14.6% over the month, and the borrow market has now…
XNTK, the SPDR NYSE Technology ETF, enters July with its strongest weekly gain of recent months — up 6% to $390.65 — as short sellers rapidly unwind positions and the borrow market sits at maximum looseness. The most…
QQQ closed the week at $736.40, up 3.2%, erasing most of the losses from the prior week's 4.6% drop — and the positioning data that greeted the recovery is notably more ambiguous than the clean reset narrative that…
Harrow, Inc. enters the second half of 2026 with a sharp internal contradiction — short sellers are rebuilding positions into a stock that just rallied 21% in a month, while options traders are the least bearish…
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions enters July with a striking contradiction at its core: short sellers have been rebuilding positions aggressively all month, yet the analyst community just got more constructive — and…
FYX, the First Trust Small Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund, has quietly developed one of the more unusual borrow stories in the ETF space — a fund up nearly 4% on the week with every share in its lending pool now fully…
IBKR heads into its July 14 earnings print having surrendered 8% on the week, erasing most of the ground that made last month's insider sales look poorly timed. The stock closed at $87.04 on Tuesday, down from roughly…
