United States Oil Fund, LP
ARCAUSO dropped 5.2% on Tuesday to $115.78, its sharpest single-day fall in weeks, and short interest nudged higher on the same day — a small but telling move that suggests some bears are adding into weakness rather than retreating. Short interest climbed 3.1% on August 4 to 93.3% of the free float, reversing a modest pullback seen through late July. That one-day tick upward matters in…
USO short interest hits 100.8% of float, surging 20% in one week amid oil volatility and collapsing borrow availability.
USO dropped 5.2% on Tuesday to $115.78, its sharpest single-day fall in weeks, and short interest nudged higher on the same day — a small but telling move that suggests some bears are adding into weakness rather than…
USO fell 6.5% on the week to $120.49, and the extreme short-covering tension that had built through July 21 has partially unwound — but the picture is messier than a simple retreat. The previous note, published July…
Snapshot as of 5 Aug 2026
USO has risen 7.2% this week to $128.85 — and the short-covering story that defined the previous two weeks has abruptly reversed course, with shorts rebuilding and the borrow market tightening to near-emergency…
USO has surged 10.3% this week to $120.17 — and the short-covering trade that stalled in the previous note has emphatically resumed, dragging borrow conditions tighter as it goes. The covering pace this week is the…
USO has gained 4.5% on the week to $108.70, but the short-covering story that dominated the previous note has hit a pause — and the options market is now telling a meaningfully different story about where sentiment is…
USO has bounced 2.3% on the week to $108.92, clawing back some ground after a punishing 18% one-month decline — and for the first time in weeks, the lending market is telling a genuinely different story from the one…
USO has dropped another 4.3% on the week to $106.44 — extending a brutal 17.5% one-month slide — and the short unwind that began mid-June is accelerating, even as the lending market refuses to fully relax. The most…
USO has shed nearly 17% over the past month. Short sellers are covering. Yet the borrow market tells a more complicated story than a clean unwind. Short interest has fallen sharply — down 17.5% over the past week to…
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…
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