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ARCAGLD is entering the back half of July with shorts retreating for a second time and options traders at their most call-heavy in over a year — the rebuild that looked threatening on July 14 has already started to unwind. The short interest story has moved fast this week. After bears rebuilt from 11.3 million shares to 12.95 million between July 10 and July 14 — the episode covered in…
GLD short interest tumbles 25% in one week to 12.1M shares, reversing mid-July rebuild as borrow costs ease to 0.64%.
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Read on ORTEX →Sign up for premiumGLD is entering the back half of July with shorts retreating for a second time and options traders at their most call-heavy in over a year — the rebuild that looked threatening on July 14 has already started to…
Snapshot as of 6 Aug 2026
The week's most striking tension in GLD is a small but meaningful short rebuild running directly against the most bullish options setup seen in months. After the clean July 10 unwind documented in the previous note —…
The "pause" documented earlier this week has become a genuine unwind. Short interest in GLD dropped 30% in a single session on July 10, falling to 11.3 million shares — the steepest single-day cover on record. That…
GLD enters the second week of July with the short-building frenzy from late June showing its first signs of fatigue — shares short have eased back slightly from peak levels even as the ETF itself pulled back 1.2% on…
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…
GLD enters the final days of June nursing a rough month — down more than 8% in four weeks and off 5% on the week to $377.32 — yet beneath the surface, the positioning data tells a more complicated story than simple…
GLD heads into the back half of June with a notable tension: short interest has been creeping higher for weeks, yet the ETF's borrow market just loosened sharply — a split signal that makes the current pullback harder…
The short build that defined last week's note has already reversed — GLD closed at $414, up 0.6% on the week, and the bears who were quietly rebuilding positions through May 19 have since stood down. The positioning…
GLD has suffered its sharpest weekly reversal in recent memory, dropping nearly 5% in a week to $411.50 — and the positioning data shows shorts are quietly rebuilding just as options traders have turned their most…
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