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Professional-grade terminal for retail traders. en-us Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:41:10 GMT Tapeboard build-blog-index https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-06-05 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-06-05 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT U.S. stocks suffered their worst day since October on June 5, 2026, as the S&P 500 fell 2.6% to 7,383.74 and the Nasdaq dropped 4.2% after a hot May jobs report pushed Fed rate-hike odds to 57% and deepened the semiconductor selloff. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayJune 52026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-06-05 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-06-05 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The most shorted stocks on June 5, 2026 are led by Cemtrex (CETX) with a perfect 100 squeeze score and short interest at 77.1% of float, in a board dominated by heavily shorted small caps and extreme-borrow-fee names like GOVX at 416.8%. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeJune 52026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/weekly-recap-2026-06-05 https://tapeboard.com/blog/weekly-recap-2026-06-05 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT A soft AI-chip outlook from Broadcom and a hot May jobs report sparked a $1.3 trillion semiconductor selloff that dragged the Nasdaq down 4.7% on the week, even as money rotated into healthcare and financials and the Dow set a fresh record. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) weekly-recapweeklystock-market-this-week https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-06-04 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-06-04 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT U.S. stocks split on June 4, 2026 as the Dow surged 1.73% to a record 51,561.93 and money rotated into health care and financials, while a 12% Broadcom plunge dragged the Nasdaq fractionally lower. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayJune 42026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-06-04 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-06-04 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Groupon (GRPN) tops Tapeboard's most-shorted leaderboard on June 4, 2026 with a perfect squeeze score of 100 and 58.1% short interest, while GOVX carries an extreme 434.1% borrow fee. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeJune 42026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/2026-06-04-pdt-rule-gone https://tapeboard.com/blog/2026-06-04-pdt-rule-gone Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT As of June 4, 2026, the $25,000 PDT wall is down. For sub-$25k accounts that's real freedom — and the moment people are most likely to blow up. Here's what changed, and the unglamorous way to use the new freedom without giving it back to the market. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) day-tradingregulationeducationsmall-accounts https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-06-03 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-06-03 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT U.S. stocks fell on June 3, 2026 as the S&P 500 dropped 0.74% to 7,553.68, snapping a nine-day win streak after fresh U.S.-Iran tensions drove oil and Treasury yields higher. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayJune 32026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-06-03 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-06-03 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Groupon (GRPN) tops Tapeboard's most-shorted leaderboard on June 3, 2026 with a perfect squeeze score of 100 and 58.1% short interest, while GOVX carries an extreme 434.1% borrow fee. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeJune 32026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-06-02 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-06-02 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The S&P 500 and Nasdaq edged to fresh record closes on June 2, 2026, as a 33% melt-up in Marvell powered chip stocks and offset a 3.9% slide in Alphabet. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayJune 22026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-06-02 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-06-02 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT On June 2, 2026, Groupon (GRPN) tops Tapeboard's most-shorted leaderboard with a perfect squeeze score of 100 and short interest at 58.1% of float, leading a board where 20 of the top 25 names carry the FINRA threshold flag. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeJune 22026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/monthly-recap-2026-05 https://tapeboard.com/blog/monthly-recap-2026-05 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT U.S. stocks closed May 2026 at record highs — the Nasdaq up 8.2%, the S&P 500 up 5.0%, and the Dow up 2.9% — as an AI-infrastructure earnings boom led by Nvidia and Dell overpowered a hot April inflation report and a late-month oil crash. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) monthly-recapmarket-recapMay 2026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-06-01 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-06-01 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at record highs on June 1, 2026 — the Nasdaq's first finish above 27,000 — as a new Nvidia AI PC chip powered tech while a U.S.–Iran flare-up spiked crude and dragged the Russell 2000 lower. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayJune 12026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-06-01 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-06-01 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT On June 1, 2026, Groupon (GRPN) tops Tapeboard's most-shorted leaderboard with a perfect 100 squeeze score on 58.1% short interest, while GOVX carries a 551.2% borrow fee and gene-editing biotech names crowd the rest of the top 25. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeJune 12026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-29 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-29 Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT U.S. stocks closed higher on May 29, 2026, with the S&P 500 up 0.22% to 7,580.06 as a 33% surge in Dell capped an AI-fueled record May, even as energy slid on Iran ceasefire hopes. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayMay 292026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-05-29 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-05-29 Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Groupon (GRPN) tops Tapeboard's most-shorted leaderboard on May 29, 2026 with a perfect squeeze score of 100 and 58.1% short interest, while GOVX carries an extreme 551.2% borrow fee. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeMay 292026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/weekly-recap-2026-05-29 https://tapeboard.com/blog/weekly-recap-2026-05-29 Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT U.S. stocks closed a holiday-shortened week at record highs, with the S&P 500 up 1.7% to 7,580.06 for its ninth straight weekly gain as a 33% blowout in Dell reignited the AI-infrastructure trade and a U.S.-Iran ceasefire deal sank crude oil 6%. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) weekly-recapweeklystock-market-this-week https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-28 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-28 Thu, 28 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed at fresh record highs on May 28, 2026, with the S&P up 0.58% to 7,563.63 as a 36% surge in Snowflake powered AI-software gains — even after April PCE inflation jumped to 3.8%, its hottest in nearly three years. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayMay 282026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-05-28 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-05-28 Thu, 28 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT GRPN tops Tapeboard's most shorted stocks leaderboard on May 28, 2026 with a perfect 100 squeeze score and 58.1% short interest, leading a board where borrow costs split between three triple-and-double-digit-fee outliers and a deep group of high-SI biotech and clean-energy names. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeMay 282026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-27 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-27 Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Dow closed at a fresh record on May 27, 2026 while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq finished flat, as rumored U.S.-Iran progress and a 5.5% crude oil collapse rotated money out of energy and chips into consumer names. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayMay 272026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-05-27 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-05-27 Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Groupon (GRPN) tops Tapeboard's most shorted stocks list on May 27, 2026 with a perfect 100 squeeze score, 59.2% short interest, and 58.1% float utilization, leading a board where 18 of 25 names sit on the FINRA threshold list. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeMay 272026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-failure-to-deliver https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-failure-to-deliver Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A failure to deliver (FTD) occurs when a party in a securities trade fails to deliver the shares or cash by the standard settlement date, most often associated with short selling and tracked publicly by the SEC. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsmarket-structure https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-symmetrical-triangle https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-symmetrical-triangle Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A symmetrical triangle is a continuation chart pattern in which price compresses between a descending resistance line of lower highs and an ascending support line of higher lows, with both trendlines converging toward an apex at roughly mirror-image angles. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionschart-patterns https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-cumulative-delta https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-cumulative-delta Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Cumulative delta is a running sum of buy-initiated minus sell-initiated volume, measuring net aggressive participation in a security to reveal whether buyers or sellers are paying up to get filled. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsorder-flow https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-stochastic-rsi https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-stochastic-rsi Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Stochastic RSI is a momentum oscillator that applies the stochastic formula to RSI values rather than to raw price, measuring where the current RSI sits within its recent range to produce a faster, more sensitive overbought/oversold signal. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsindicators https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-awesome-oscillator https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-awesome-oscillator Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Awesome Oscillator is a momentum indicator developed by Bill Williams that plots the difference between a 5-period and 34-period simple moving average of bar midpoints, oscillating around a zero line to flag momentum shifts before they appear in slower moving-average crossovers. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsindicators https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-26 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-26 Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The S&P 500 closed 0.61% higher at a record 7,519.12 on May 26, 2026, as Micron surged 19% on a UBS upgrade, semiconductors led the Nasdaq up 1.19%, and easing Strait of Hormuz tensions knocked WTI crude down 5.2%. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayMay 262026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-box-spread https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-box-spread Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A box spread is a four-leg options strategy combining a bull call spread and a bear put spread at the same strikes to lock in a risk-free interest rate equivalent to a synthetic loan. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsoptions https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-synthetic-position https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-synthetic-position Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A synthetic position is an options or stock combination that replicates the payoff profile of another instrument, derived from put-call parity to achieve identical economics through different legs. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsoptions https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-put-call-parity https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-put-call-parity Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Put-call parity is the no-arbitrage relationship stating that a European call minus a European put at the same strike and expiration equals the underlying price minus the present value of the strike. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsoptions https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-high-low-index https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-high-low-index Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The High-Low Index is a market breadth indicator that measures the percentage of stocks making new 52-week highs versus new 52-week lows, smoothed by a 10-day moving average. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsmarket-breadth https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-mcclellan-summation-index https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-mcclellan-summation-index Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The McClellan Summation Index is a long-term breadth indicator that sums daily McClellan Oscillator values to track the cumulative momentum of advancing versus declining stocks on the NYSE. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsmarket-breadth https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-25 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-25 Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT US stock markets were closed Monday, May 25, 2026 in observance of Memorial Day, with the Dow heading into the long weekend at a fresh record of 50,579.70 and trading set to resume Tuesday with a packed slate including the April PCE inflation print and earnings from Salesforce, Dell, and Costco. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayMay 252026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-05-25 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-05-25 Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Enveric (ENVB) tops Tapeboard's most-shorted-stocks board on May 25, 2026 with a perfect 100 squeeze score and a 249% annualized borrow fee, leading Groupon (GRPN), RH, CleanSpark (CLSK), and Recursion (RXRX) into a holiday-shortened week dominated by FINRA threshold names. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeMay 252026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-diagonal-spread https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-diagonal-spread Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A diagonal spread is a two-leg options position combining different strikes and different expirations, designed to harvest time decay on the short leg while holding directional exposure on the long leg. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsoptions-strategies https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-hanging-man https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-hanging-man Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A hanging man is a single-candle bearish reversal pattern with a small body at the top of the range and a long lower shadow, signaling distribution at the end of an uptrend. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionscandlestick-patterns https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-stock-split https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-stock-split Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A stock split is a corporate action that increases the number of outstanding shares while proportionally reducing the share price, leaving market capitalization unchanged. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsequity-events https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-an-ipo https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-an-ipo Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a private company's shares to public investors through a regulated stock exchange listing. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsequity-events https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-vix-term-structure https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-vix-term-structure Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The VIX term structure is the curve of S&P 500 implied volatility across multiple forward horizons — 9-day, 30-day, 3-month, 6-month, and 1-year — used to identify volatility regime. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsvolatility https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-renko-chart https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-renko-chart Sun, 24 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A Renko chart is a Japanese price-only chart that prints a new fixed-size brick each time price closes beyond the prior brick by that brick's value, stripping time and minor noise from the visual to expose trend structure. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionstechnical-analysischarting https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-chaikin-money-flow https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-chaikin-money-flow Sun, 24 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Chaikin Money Flow is a volume-weighted oscillator developed by Marc Chaikin that sums money-flow volume over a 20-bar window and divides by total volume, producing a value between -1 and +1 that quantifies sustained buying or selling pressure. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsindicatorsvolume https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-hull-moving-average https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-hull-moving-average Sun, 24 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Hull Moving Average is a low-lag moving average developed by Alan Hull in 2005 that combines three weighted moving averages — one at half the period, one at the full period, and a final smoothing at the square root of the period — to track price with materially less lag than EMA or SMA. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsindicatorstechnical-analysis https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-move-index https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-move-index Sun, 24 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The MOVE Index measures the bond market's 30-day expected volatility, derived from the implied volatility of one-month over-the-counter options on 2-, 5-, 10-, and 30-year US Treasury futures. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsvolatilityfixed-income https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-wyckoff-method https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-wyckoff-method Sun, 24 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Wyckoff Method is a price-and-volume framework developed by Richard D. Wyckoff in the 1930s that maps every market cycle into four phases — accumulation, markup, distribution, and markdown — driven by a hypothetical Composite Operator representing institutional flow. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsmarket-structuretechnical-analysis https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-liquidity-sweep https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-liquidity-sweep Sat, 23 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A liquidity sweep is a price-action pattern where price briefly trades through a known stop-loss cluster above a swing high or below a swing low, triggers resting orders, and then reverses sharply. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsprice-action https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-pair-trading https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-pair-trading Sat, 23 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Pair trading is a market-neutral strategy where a trader goes long one security and short a correlated security, betting on convergence of the spread rather than the direction of either name. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsquantitative-strategy https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-nyse-tick-index https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-nyse-tick-index Sat, 23 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT The NYSE TICK Index is a real-time market breadth indicator that measures the net number of NYSE-listed stocks trading on an uptick versus a downtick, used by day-traders to gauge intraday conviction. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsmarket-internals https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-vvix https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-vvix Sat, 23 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT VVIX is the Cboe 'VIX of the VIX' Index — it measures the market's expected 30-day volatility of VIX itself, calculated from VIX option prices, and signals demand for tail hedges. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsvolatility https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-value-at-risk https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-value-at-risk Sat, 23 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Value at Risk (VaR) is a quantitative risk metric that estimates the maximum expected loss of a portfolio over a defined horizon at a specified confidence level under normal market conditions. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsrisk-management https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-22 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-05-22 Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT US stocks closed higher on May 22, 2026, with the Dow gaining 294 points to a fresh record and the S&P 500 booking an eighth straight weekly advance as 10-year Treasury yields eased into the Memorial Day weekend. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayMay 222026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-05-22 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-05-22 Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Groupon (GRPN) leads Tapeboard's most-shorted leaderboard on May 22, 2026 with a maximum squeeze score of 100 and 59.2% short interest, in a session dominated by FINRA-threshold names and a handful of triple-digit borrow-fee outliers. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeMay 222026