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PN's Borrow Market Melts Down as Cost to Borrow Hits 847%

PN — Skycorp Solar Group Ltd — has become one of the most explosive small-cap stories of the week. Cost to borrow has surged to 847%, short shares are up over 6,000% in seven days, and the stock is up 177%…

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MNDR Shorts Hit 152% of Float in Historic Blowout

Short interest in MNDR has gone from near-zero to overwhelming in a matter of days. The borrow market is tightening fast. Three ORTEX signals fired simultaneously — all critical. On April 27, MNDR carried just 3,946…

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AUDC Options Signal Extreme Bullishness — Then Earnings Hit

AudioCodes stock dropped 16% on May 6. The options market had seen it coming — just not in that direction. The put/call ratio told a clear bullish story heading into earnings. It collapsed from a 20-day mean of 5.40 to…

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CLRB Borrow Market Seizes Up Overnight

Cellectar Biosciences went from a quiet short base to a lending market crisis in a single session. Short interest jumped 1,380% in one day to 6.5% of float. Cost to borrow rocketed to 150.4%. Availability has collapsed…

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FRMI Borrow Market Dries Up as Insiders Head for the Exit

FRMI shares in Fermi Inc. are down 7.7% this month. The lending pool tells an even starker story. Every available share in the borrow market is now lent out. Availability has dropped to 0% — the tightest it has been in…

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CUK Options Traders Turn Bullish as Borrow Costs Spike

Options positioning on CUK shifted sharply this week. The put/call ratio dropped to 1.78 on May 5 — 3.9 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 2.27. That's the most bullish options reading in months, and it…

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Barclays shorts retreat 70% — options market grows cautious

BCS short sellers have dramatically unwound positions over the past month. Short interest has collapsed from roughly 5.9 million shares in late March to 1.78 million by May 5 — a 70% drop. Yet as that exit played out,…

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BBAI Borrow Market Hits Maximum Squeeze

BigBear.ai has run out of shares to borrow. Availability has dropped to zero — every share in the lending pool is currently lent out. That matches the 52-week peak and creates the tightest borrow conditions the stock…

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USO Borrow Market Hits Maximum Tightness

Three converging signals are firing on USO simultaneously. The lending pool is exhausted, borrow costs have doubled in a month, and options traders are piling into puts — all as crude oil prices bounce. Availability on…

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IVV Options Sentiment Flips Bullish as Shorts Build

The IVV put/call ratio just hit 0.73 — 3.2 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 1.12. That's the most extreme bullish options positioning in months for the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF. The shift stands out because…

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OKLO Founders Cash Out as Borrow Market Tightens

OKLO founders sold over $18 million of stock on May 1. That same day, short interest sat at 19.3% of free float. Now the borrow market is tightening fast. CEO Jacob DeWitte and COO Caroline Cochran both sold on May 1 —…

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SNOW Bears Pile In Despite Loose Borrow Market

Snowflake is catching short sellers' attention. SI jumped 33% over the past month to 5.1% of float. Yet the borrow market tells a contradictory story — availability remains extremely loose, and cost to borrow just hit…

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GME Short Interest Spikes 25% in a Day as Lending Tightens

Short sellers piled back into GME on May 4. A 25% single-day jump in short interest pushed the float-adjusted figure to 15.5%. That move snapped a month-long retreat and put borrowing costs under fresh pressure. Short…

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CNSP Borrow Cost Explodes 1,170% as Stock Triples

A 239% single-day rally in CNSP has detonated the lending market. CNS Pharmaceuticals' cost to borrow hit 326% on May 4 — up from 22.8% just one week earlier. That 1,170% weekly jump in borrow cost is the dominant…

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PH puts surge even as short sellers retreat

Options traders are piling into protective puts on PH at the fastest pace in weeks. The put-call ratio hit 0.95 on May 5 — 2.7 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.73. Yet the short-selling data tells a…

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HCAI Borrow Market Burns as CTB Hits 864%

Cost to borrow on HCAI has exploded to 864%. That is up 88% in a week and nearly 585% over the past month. The borrow market is under acute stress — and earnings are ten days away. Availability has collapsed. The…

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RELX Shorts Build Ahead of Thursday Earnings

Earnings are two days away. Short sellers are not waiting. RELX reports on May 6. In the week to May 4, short interest jumped 16.3% to 4.47 million shares. Over the past month, that's a 30% build. The positioning is…

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EPD Analysts Raise Targets as Shorts Retreat

Analysts at three firms lifted price targets on EPD in the past week. The borrow market has simultaneously loosened to multi-month lows. Yet options traders are loading up on puts — and that tension is the story. EPD…

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VALE Bears Build as Options Market Pushes Back

Bears are piling into VALE, but the options market isn't buying it. Short shares jumped 25% in a month. Yet put/call positioning tells a different story. Short shares in VALE have climbed from 55.3M on April 9 to 69.5M…

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