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NASDAQTLT ends the week with short interest creeping back up and the options market flashing its most call-heavy reading in twelve months, a split signal that captures the wider confusion around the long end of the Treasury curve. The positioning picture has shifted since the September 30 note, which described a bear trade losing momentum. Short interest has edged back to 104.7 million…
TLT ends the week with short interest creeping back up and the options market flashing its most call-heavy reading in twelve months, a split signal that captures the wider confusion around the long end of the Treasury…
TLT enters the end of September with the bear trade that reignited so forcefully earlier this week already losing momentum. Five days ago, ORTEX data showed short interest hitting 112.8 million shares and borrow costs…
Snapshot as of 8 Oct 2026
The quiet retreat in TLT short positioning that marked mid-September has sharply reversed. Short interest has jumped back to 20.3% of free float — up 16% in a single week — erasing the unwind and then some. Nine days…
TLT heads into the back half of September with an unusual divergence: short sellers are trimming exposure while options traders have shifted more decisively into call territory than at any point in the past year. The…
TLT spent most of August wrong-footed by a rally, but the past week has started to vindicate rate bears — the ETF fell 1.9% to $81.87 even as short interest climbed further, and the question now is whether this is the…
TLT just posted its sharpest weekly short-interest jump in months — and the ETF is rallying anyway, creating the clearest tension in the long-duration Treasury trade right now. Short sellers have added aggressively…
TLT enters the back half of August with short sellers quietly adding exposure and the long end of the yield curve still offering little comfort for bulls — a setup where the bond market's most-watched ETF sits caught…
TLT ended the week on the back foot — the brief bear capitulation documented in Monday's note has stalled, with short interest edging back up and the ETF dropping another 1.2% to close at $82.25, now down nearly 5%…
TLT has broken the consolidation that defined the past two weeks: bears are trimming, availability has expanded sharply, and the options market has rotated toward its most call-skewed stance in months. The prior four…
TLT enters the second half of July in a state of uneasy equilibrium: bears rebuilt aggressively three weeks ago, have held that ground through the subsequent consolidation, and are now drifting sideways with no clear…
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