$Tesla (TSLA.US)$ turned into a scalpers’ market Friday, as traders of zero-days-to-expiration traders piled onto $350 call options, hopeful for a slight breakout, while skeptics kept selling, and others sought downside protection.
Call options that give their holder the right to buy Tesla shares at $350 each by the end of the day attracted the second heaviest volume, with about 215,600 contracts changing ha...

$Amazon (AMZN.US)$ shares climbed Friday, undeterred by short sellers who have crowded into the stock, amid signs of how divided Wall Street remains on Chief Executive Andy Jassy’s all-in wager on artificial intelligence.
Trading in borrowed Amazon shares that were sold short rose to 8.2 million shares Thursday, from 5.52 million shares a day earlier, exchange data compiled by moomoo showed. That accounted for...

$Palantir (PLTR.US)$ shares tumbled 7.3%, signaling mounting investor worries over heightened competition from AI that have fueled increasing demand for put options used by many as insurance against a sustained slump.
Open interest, or the tally of outstanding put options stood at 1.76 million contracts, bigger than the 1.69 million outstanding call options, according to exchange data tracked by moomoo.  The term...

Trading in borrowed $CoreWeave (CRWV.US)$ shares that were sold short rose, setting the bears up for a clash with the bulls after the AI cloud company unveiled a $21 billion expanded infrastructure deal with $Meta Platforms (META.US)$.  
CoreWeave shares advanced  more than 5% Thursday, after climbing as much as 6.8% to $94.96 earlier following its announcement on the long-term deal for Meta to use its...

$Applied Digital (APLD.US)$ reported a surprise profit for its fiscal third quarter, fueled by increasing demand for high-performance AI data center.
The Dallas-based digital infrastructure company posted adjusted earnings of 9 cents per share, significantly outperforming Bloomberg consensus that expected a 10-cent loss. Revenue for three months ended ended Feb. 28 climbed 139% to $126.6 million, well above the average analyst estima...

$Meta Platforms (META.US)$ shares climbed more than 8%, boosting the appeal of its zero-day-to-expiration (0DTE) call options after the company launched its latest artificial intelligence model, giving investors a look at the progress of its initiatives that have driven company's huge spending on AI infrastructure buildout.
Shares jumped to $622.37 at 1:20 p.m. in New York, pushing the three of ...

$Intel (INTC.US)$ shares jumped more than 10% Wednesday, extended their rally and strengthening the case for short sellers to close out their bearish positions on the semiconductor company that's been recently tapped to work with $Tesla (TSLA.US)$, SpaceX and xAI on Elon Musk's Terafab project.  
The chipmaker is rising at more than quadruple the pace of the tech heavy $Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC.US)$ an...

$Broadcom (AVGO.US)$'s options market is signaling optimism that the stock could sustain Tuesday's 6.2% gains over the next few months after the AI chip giant announced an expanded collaboration with   $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$'s Google and Anthropic.
Shares of the AI chip giant stayed in the green throughout the trading day, closing at $333.94 Tuesday, and defying the downward pressure seen across the stock market t...

$UnitedHealth (UNH.US)$ shares jumped more than 9% Tuesday, bolstering the case for the short sellers to close out their wagers against the largest U.S. health insurer, after the government finalized a bigger-than-expected increase in Medicare Advantage payments for next year.
Trading in borrowed UnitedHealth shares that were sold short rose to 636,600 shares Monday, before the Centers for Medicare & ...

$Netflix (NFLX.US)$ shares fluctuated Monday as short sellers stepped in, selling into the rally that sent the stock above $100 in early trading Monday.
Trading in borrowed shares that were sold short rose to 8.24 million shares Thursday, representing more than 22% of the shares that changed hands that day when the stock price advanced 3.25%. Short interest, or the tally of short positions that haven't been closed, ...