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July 2026 Monthly Activist Short Selling Report
August 4, 2026
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Short sellers brought receipts. The market shrugged and bought.
August 2, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, August 2, 2026 Some weeks the market listens, and some weeks it does not. Two reports landed on Wednesday, both aimed at miners, and...
Shorts are back: Lyft, Rackspace & Owlet all targeted this week
July 26, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, July 26, 2026 If you needed a sign that short selling is having a moment, this was the week for it. CNN ran a feature on how shorts...
Weekly Wrap Up: A Fraud-Tainted Rebrand and a Rare Grizzly Sit-Down
July 19, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, July 19, 2026 Quiet week on the report front, with just one new short campaign to walk through, but it is a worthwhile one. White...
Bloom Energy Targeted Twice in Two Days as Sadot Collapses 54%
July 12, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, July 12, 2026 Consolidation arrived in activist short selling this week, and so did a pile of new reports. Hunterbrook Media's...
Five New Short Reports and a Big Week for the AI Bears
July 5, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, July 5, 2026 The trading week ended a day early with markets closed Friday for the July 4th holiday, but short sellers packed plenty...
Viceroy Takes the Crown: June's Short Selling Report Is Live
July 2, 2026
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Short Sellers Went 4-for-4 This Week
June 28, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, June 28, 2026 Short sellers spent the week testing how far conviction travels when the target is a household name. The loudest story...
A heavy week for activist shorts: four new reports land
June 21, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, June 21, 2026 Short selling rarely stays quiet for long, and this week the loudest story was happening in a courtroom rather than on...
SpaceX Takes Off, and Short Sellers Keep Firing Everywhere Else
June 14, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, June 14, 2026 The activist short selling world spent the week watching two heavyweight investigators converge on the same target....
May 2026 Activist Short Selling Report
June 10, 2026
May 2026 Activist Short Selling Performance Report Header Monthly Performance Report May 2026 Activist Short Selling Performance Report Stats row 21 Reports...
Andrew Left convicted of fraud as 5 new short reports land this week
June 7, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, June 7, 2026 If you follow short selling, you didn't talk about much else this week. On June 1 a federal jury in Los Angeles...
Andrew Left fraud trial closes, plus 2 new shorts: INV & ALT
May 31, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, May 31, 2026 Happy Sunday. It was a week where the short selling world spent as much time in the courtroom and on the macro desk as...
7 short reports in one week: shells, sham credits, and fake orders
May 24, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, May 24, 2026 It was a relentless week on the short side, with research firms publishing back to back across nearly every sector. The...
Culper Takes On NVIDIA as Andrew Left's Federal Trial Opens
May 17, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, May 17, 2026 Quite a week. Andrew Left's federal trial opened in LA Monday, shaping up as the most consequential courtroom test of...
Weekly Wrap SUnday 5/10/2026
May 10, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, May 10, 2026 Big week. Four reports landed, and one stock dropped more than 50% by Friday. Fugazi Research turned in another haymaker...
April 2026 Monthly Short Selling Report
May 5, 2026
April 2026 Activist Short Selling Performance Report HIDDEN PREHEADER Mid Caps got hammered. Large Caps held the line. One campaign drove a 55% decline in...
Weekly Wrap 5/3/2026
May 3, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, May 3, 2026 Five activist reports landed in five days, and Blaize Holdings (BZAI) absorbed two of them in 72 hours. Pelican Way...
5 Activist Reports Avis -54%, Sportradar -21%, FRMI -18%
April 26, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, April 26, 2026 This was one of the loudest weeks for activist short research in memory. Fugazi Research's takedown of Avis Budget on...
Weekly Wrap Up Sunday 4/19/2026
April 19, 2026
Weekly Wrap Up: Sunday, April 19, 2026 Welcome to the Weekly Wrap Up. This was a week of structural shifts for the short selling world, alongside three...
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