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@Barcode：$Amazon.com(AMZN)$ $Wal-Mart(WMT)$ $MasterCard(MA)$ 📊💰🔥 Hedge Funds Are Refusing to Short the Real Market Leaders 🔥💰📊 TODAY’S UNUSUAL OPTIONS ACTIVITY, 14Jan26 If hedge funds control roughly 85% of U.S. short interest and still refuse to lean into names like $WMT, $AMZN, $MA, $LLY and $CB, that is not passive behaviour, it is institutional conviction. That positioning signals where real money sees durable earnings power, pricing leverage, balance sheet dominance and secular growth insulated from macro volatility, liquidity cycles and regime shifts. When shorts avoid platform monopolies with expanding margins, recurring revenue, scale economics and fortress free cash flow, it tells me exactly where the downside risk is not. What makes this even more powerful is that the live options tape is confirming it. On 14Jan26, unusual volume exploded across defensive growth and macro hedging vehicles, with $WMT, $XOM, $SLV, $JPM, $XLE, $VIX and $LQD all printing multi-times average volume as dealers, funds and systematic strategies repositioned around earnings, rates and cross-asset volatility. That kind of skew is not retail noise, it is institutions using gamma, convexity and liquidity to protect exposure to dominant platforms while hedging macro risk everywhere else. In a market driven by options flow, ETF rebalancing, volatility targeting and dealer hedging, the smartest money is not betting against companies that own demand, data, distribution and pricing. I read that alignment between hedge fund short avoidance and same-day options flow as structural bullish positioning, not complacency, especially with inflation prints, Fed policy and earnings injecting constant regime shifts into the tape. 📢 Don’t miss out! Like, Repost and Follow me for exclusive setups, cutting-edge trends, and insights that move markets 🚀📈 I’m obsessed with hunting down the next big movers and sharing strategies that crush it. Let’s outsmart the market and stack those gains together! 🍀 Trade like a boss! Happy trading ahead, Cheers, BC 📈🚀🍀🍀🍀 @Tiger_comments @Daily_Discussion @TigerObserver @TigerWire @TigerPicks @TigerStars
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