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Five insiders at AMAT filed sales totalling nearly $87M on June 17. CEO Gary Dickerson led the rush, dumping over $60M in shares at around $591–$597 each. The CTO and Chairman of the Board also filed large sales on the…
Short sellers had a busy week. Wolfspeed tops the charts with SI hitting 130% of free float — up nearly 27 points in seven days. Zero shares are available to borrow. That extreme reading reflects deep skepticism around…
Capricor Therapeutics just delivered a second consecutive weekly gain, but the short position that was showing its first real cracks last week has snapped back with unexpected force. The most striking development since…
SoundHound AI reverses last week's brief reprieve — short interest jumped back above 41% of the free float while the stock shed nearly 13% on the week, unwinding the modest recovery that had briefly trimmed bearish…
GRPN just delivered its most explosive week in months, surging 41% to $22.88 — yet the short interest that has defined this name for half a year barely moved, and the borrow market tells a story of rapid reabsorption…
The biggest macro story today: an Israeli-Lebanese framework agreement was announced late in the session. Axios reported officials confirmed the deal after four days of Washington talks. Oil fell back below $72.48 per…
NIKE is flashing one of the sharpest pre-earnings options signals of the week. Short interest jumped to 5.1% of free float on June 25. That's up from 4.1% just two days earlier — a near one-point spike in 48 hours.…
The biggest name on the calendar is NKE. Nike reports Q4 2026 results on Monday, June 30. The sportswear giant has faced pressure from weak consumer spending and China headwinds. Investors will watch closely for…
Truist Securities swept through the US financial sector on Friday with a flurry of upgrades and boosted price targets. WFC received a fresh Buy rating from analyst John McDonald. The target jumped to $94 from $90.…
Insider selling dominated filings this week. Several C-suite executives moved fast to lock in gains. AST SpaceMobile saw the biggest single US executive trade. ASTS founder and CEO Abel Avellan filed on June 23 showing…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week across several names. Wolfspeed leads the pack with SI at 130% of free float — up 27 points in just seven days. Zero availability means borrowing new shares is nearly…
Options traders have turned unanimously bullish on CMPS. The put-call ratio hit 0.12 on June 25 — the lowest on record and a z-score of -2.3 standard deviations below the 20-day mean. For every put traded, eight calls…
Options traders are piling into calls on KEY at a two-month extreme. That bullish positioning sits in an unusual tension with a persistent selling campaign from KeyCorp's largest shareholder — Bank of Nova Scotia. The…
MFG availability has now collapsed to 2.5%. Every share in the lending pool is out on loan. Short interest jumped 8.8% in a single day — and options traders are adding protection simultaneously. This is the third…
USO just pulled off its second dramatic lending reversal in two weeks. The previous note published June 24 called the borrow market "genuinely loose" at 67% availability. That has collapsed. Availability now sits at…
Why this matters: ORCL is now down 17% on the week and 21% on the month. Three independent data streams — options positioning, short interest, and borrowing cost — are moving in the same direction simultaneously. That…
Lockheed Martin just logged its sharpest single-day short interest spike in recent memory. Yet the borrow market tells a very different story — and that tension is worth unpacking before July 21. Short interest hit…
Two days after availability briefly climbed to 12.8%, BHP's lending market has locked back down. Availability has collapsed to 0.53% — essentially every share in the pool is out on loan. The brief window has closed…
The borrow market for HTZ has snapped. Cost to borrow has tripled in a week. Options traders are the most bullish they've been in a year. The stock, meanwhile, has lost nearly half its value in a month. Something has…
Options traders have spent the past week loading up on downside protection in YPF. The put-call ratio climbed from around 0.60 to 0.73 over five trading days — running more than 1.5 standard deviations above its 20-day…
