QBTS short sellers face a wall: utilization hits 100%, availability crashes to 0.38%, making new short positions nearly impossible to establish ahead of earnings November 5.
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QBTS short sellers face a wall: utilization hits 100%, availability crashes to 0.38%, making new short positions nearly impossible to establish ahead of earnings November 5.
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QBTS retail attention surges 5.6 standard deviations above its own 90-day average, Wikipedia views and ORTEX page traffic both spiking, per ORTEX Alt Data; as of October 26, attention signal only, not predictive of revenue.
Short sellers have pushed their position in D-Wave Quantum to 23.0% of the free float, up 10.0% in a single week. That is the highest level in at least a year, and the weekly move is 1.8 standard deviations above the…
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