Archer-Daniels-Midland arrives at its November 3 earnings report with short sellers still cutting positions and options traders maintaining the most call-heavy stance the stock has seen in a year. Short interest has fallen 5% over the past week and nearly 10% over the past month, reaching 2.5% of free float. That is a low and declining number. The borrow market offers no tension at…
ADM short interest jumped 20.4% over one week to 2.8% of float, driven by a sharp 21% surge in short shares from late August as bearish positioning intensified in the agricultural commodities name.
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Options traders at ADM are leaning bullish even as the stock slides. The put-to-call ratio fell to 0.39 on October 20, sitting 1.81 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.50. That call-heavy positioning comes…
ADM short sellers are exiting fast. That divergence — with options hedging still elevated — is the defining tension in this stock right now. Short interest in Archer-Daniels-Midland fell 28% in one week. It now stands…
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