Confluence — 761 total
Options traders turned more bearish on INGM this week. That's happening just as short sellers quietly step back and the borrow market floods with supply. The put-call ratio hit 0.0245 on August 3. That's 2.7 standard…
Options traders are turning bullish on TQQQ at the same time short sellers face a tightening borrow market. The put-call ratio has hit its lowest point in 20 days. Meanwhile, availability in the lending pool keeps…
Three signals are now moving in the same direction on VERX. Short sellers are covering, borrow costs have collapsed, and yet options traders just printed the most defensive read in months. The data points don't fully…
TLRY is flashing a rare split signal. The lending market is near its tightest point on record — yet options traders are flooding into calls, not puts. Availability has fallen to just 3.5% — meaning roughly one share…
Arista Networks reports after the close today. The data going in tells one clear story: bulls are in control. Six firms raised price targets on ANET in July alone. Needham lifted its target to $200 on July 22. Wells…
HealthStream reported earnings on August 4. Ahead of the print, short sellers made their most aggressive move in months. The convergence of rising shorts, elevated put demand, and a cost-to-borrow spike tells a…
Options positioning and short interest are moving in the same direction on CRDO. The put-call ratio hit 0.92 on July 31 — 2.2 standard deviations above its 20-day mean. Short interest climbed 15.3% in a single week.…
Post-earnings, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shows a rare alignment: analysts raising targets, options markets staying decisively call-heavy, and a borrow market so loose it barely registers. Two firms lifted…
Options traders are leaning bullish on Agilent Technologies as the stock builds toward its August 20 earnings date. Three distinct signals are now pointing in the same direction. Why this matters: The put-call ratio…
Three separate signals are moving in the same direction for Datadog ahead of Thursday's Q2 print. Options traders are buying protection. Short sellers are covering. Borrow costs are ticking up. Each signal tells a…
Two days after availability hit zero, KORU has not recovered a single share of lending capacity. Cost to borrow has continued rising. The squeeze on the borrow market is holding at maximum pressure. The previous note…
Eaton Corporation reported Q2 on July 31 and jumped 7.3% in a single session. Now Evercore ISI has upgraded the stock — and the options market is still digesting the move. Evercore ISI's David Raso upgraded ETN to…
Options traders are piling into calls on AGL ahead of next week's results. The put-call ratio hit 0.17 on July 30 — down 27% from its 20-day mean of 0.23. That reading sits more than three standard deviations below the…
The Procure Space ETF UFO has seen a dramatic shift in its lending market over the past week. Short interest has climbed to 40.4% of free float — and availability has collapsed with it. Short interest sat near 5% of…
Why this matters: Every share of VFS available to lend is now out on loan. The borrow pool hit maximum tightness on July 30. Cost to borrow has jumped 66% in a week. Availability for VinFast Auto has collapsed. As of…
LVWR just became one of the hardest stocks to borrow in the market. The lending pool is completely exhausted. Short sellers are now paying 588% annually to maintain positions. Availability has collapsed to 0%. Every…
The story that defined XLP a week ago has reversed sharply. Short interest has collapsed 39% in one week to 9.84% of free float. That's a dramatic unwind from the 16.2% reading flagged in last week's note. The speed of…
Three distinct signals are converging on TRS today. Earnings drop this afternoon. Options traders, short sellers, and the lending market are all moving in the same direction. The put-call ratio hit 0.075 yesterday.…
Options traders are making the loudest call on Two Harbors Investment Corp. heading into August 4 earnings. The put-call ratio hit 5.66 on July 29 — a 52-week high, sitting 2.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean…
Three distinct signals are converging on CVLG — Covenant Logistics Group — the night before its Q2 earnings print. The options market is the standout story. The lending data tells a contradictory tale. The put/call…
