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Written from the tape, not the press release. en-us Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:06:44 GMT Tapeboard build-blog-index https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-09-03 https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-09-03 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT BIAF carries the costliest borrow fee on the market at 689.6% annualized as of September 3, 2026, with 19 names sitting in the hard-to-borrow or extreme tier. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) borrow-feehard-to-borrowdailyshort-sellingSeptember 32026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-09-03 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-09-03 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT On September 3, 2026, the S&P 500 rose 1.06% to 7,747.71, the Nasdaq gained 1.40% to 26,584.06, and the Dow added 1.18% to 53,686.11 as financials led all 11 sectors and the VIX fell 5.79% to 14.32. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todaySeptember 32026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-09-03 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-09-03 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT VIR leads the most shorted stocks on September 3, 2026 with a 28.3 squeeze score, 15.2% short interest, and 13.6 days to cover, while extreme borrow fees at RGC (231.3%) and WKHS (28.4%) define the day's board. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeSeptember 32026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/squeeze-candidates-2026-09-03 https://tapeboard.com/blog/squeeze-candidates-2026-09-03 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT VIR tops Tapeboard's September 3, 2026 squeeze leaderboard with a 28.3 composite score, on a day when every name in the top 17 sat on the FINRA short-volume threshold list. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezesqueeze-candidatesdailysqueeze-scoreSeptember 32026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-09-02 https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-09-02 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT BIAF carries the costliest borrow fee in Tapeboard's market-wide ranking at 689.6% annualized as of September 2, 2026, with 18 names in the hard-to-borrow or extreme tier. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) borrow-feehard-to-borrowdailyshort-sellingSeptember 22026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-09-02 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-09-02 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT On September 2, 2026, the S&P 500 rose 0.46% to 7,666.60, the Nasdaq gained 0.45% to 26,217.83, the Dow added 0.56% to 53,061.95, and the Russell 2000 jumped 1.13% to 2,953.17 as energy and health care led while technology lagged. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todaySeptember 22026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-09-02 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-09-02 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT ChargePoint (CHPT) tops the most shorted stocks leaderboard on September 2, 2026 with a squeeze score of 44.8, 24.2% short interest, and 15.61 days to cover, while Regencell (RGC) carries an extreme 236.8% borrow fee. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeSeptember 22026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/trading-halts-2026-09-02 https://tapeboard.com/blog/trading-halts-2026-09-02 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT 28 trading halts were recorded on September 2, 2026 — 25 LULD/volatility halts, 0 T1 news-pending halts, and 3 other regulatory halts — with APGE the most notable name after a T12 additional-information halt that remained pending into the evening. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) trading-haltsluldmarket-eventsdailySeptember 22026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/monthly-recap-2026-08 https://tapeboard.com/blog/monthly-recap-2026-08 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT August 2026 was a strong month for U.S. stocks: the S&P 500 gained 5.06% to close at 7,686.14, the Nasdaq jumped 7.89%, and technology led all sectors with an 11.96% advance while gold rallied 8.14% and the VIX fell to 15.71. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) monthly-recapmarket-recapAugust 2026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/alerts-you-control-2026-09 https://tapeboard.com/blog/alerts-you-control-2026-09 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT We shipped the alert controls weeks after shipping the alerts. That was backwards. Today: a real mute, per-channel control, quiet hours that work, and a cap on the scanner firehose. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) productalertsnotificationsrelease https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-09-01 https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-09-01 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT ATPC carries the highest borrow fee in the market-wide ranking at 652.5% annualized as of September 1, 2026, with 17 names sitting in the hard-to-borrow or extreme tier. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) borrow-feehard-to-borrowdailyshort-sellingSeptember 12026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-09-01 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-09-01 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT On September 1, 2026, RGC leads the Tapeboard squeeze leaderboard with a score of 52.4 driven by a 236.8% annualized borrow fee, while the board is dominated by threshold-flagged names with elevated days to cover. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeSeptember 12026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/squeeze-candidates-2026-09-01 https://tapeboard.com/blog/squeeze-candidates-2026-09-01 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT RGC leads Tapeboard's September 1, 2026 squeeze leaderboard with a 52.4 composite score, on a day dominated by elevated borrow fees and heavy FINRA threshold-list concentration across biotech names. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezesqueeze-candidatesdailysqueeze-scoreSeptember 12026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/trading-halts-2026-09-01 https://tapeboard.com/blog/trading-halts-2026-09-01 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Tapeboard tracked 34 trading halts on September 1, 2026 — 28 LULD/volatility pauses, zero T1 news-pending halts, and 6 other regulatory halts, with ACHR.W the most notable after an H11 regulatory halt that remained pending into the evening. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) trading-haltsluldmarket-eventsdailySeptember 12026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/what-we-built-august-2026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/what-we-built-august-2026 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT One month, one terminal: a voice that reads you the market, alerts that meet you where you are, paper trading with no account, and the whole thing got faster and kinder on mobile. Here's what changed — and why. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) productchangelog https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-08-31 https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-08-31 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT ATPC carries the costliest borrow fee on August 31, 2026 at 663.6% annualized, with 19 names sitting in the hard-to-borrow or extreme tier. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) borrow-feehard-to-borrowdailyshort-sellingAugust 312026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-52-week-high https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-52-week-high Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A 52-week high is the highest price a stock has traded at during the trailing 52 weeks, a level that acts as both a psychological anchor and a statistically validated momentum signal. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionstechnical-analysis https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-consolidation https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-consolidation Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A consolidation is a sideways price range where a stock digests a prior move, with volatility and volume contracting until supply and demand resolve into the next directional break. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionstechnical-analysis https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-gap-up https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-gap-up Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A gap up occurs when a stock opens above the prior session's high, leaving an untraded price void on the chart, usually driven by overnight news such as earnings or guidance. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionstechnical-analysis https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-pullback https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-pullback Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A pullback is a temporary price decline within an established uptrend that does not break the trend's structure, offering traders a lower-risk entry in the direction of the prevailing move. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionstechnical-analysis https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-trading-range https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-trading-range Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A trading range is the horizontal band between established support and resistance within which a security oscillates when neither buyers nor sellers control the trend. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsmarket-structure https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-call-option https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-call-option Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A call option is a contract that gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy 100 shares of an underlying stock at a fixed strike price before a set expiration date. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsoptions https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-put-option https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-put-option Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A put option is a contract that gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell 100 shares of an underlying stock at a fixed strike price before a set expiration date. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsoptions https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-vertical-spread https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-vertical-spread Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A vertical spread is an options strategy that buys one option and sells another option of the same type and expiration but at a different strike, capping both maximum profit and maximum loss. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsoptions https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-an-etf https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-an-etf Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT An ETF (exchange-traded fund) is a pooled investment fund that holds a basket of securities and trades on an exchange intraday like a single stock. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsetfs https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-dollar-cost-averaging https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-dollar-cost-averaging Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Dollar-cost averaging is the strategy of investing a fixed dollar amount into an asset at regular intervals regardless of price, buying more shares when prices are low and fewer when prices are high. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsinvesting https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-08-28 https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-08-28 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT JZ carries the highest borrow fee on August 28, 2026 at 743.3% annualized, with 18 names on today's market-wide list sitting in the hard-to-borrow or extreme tier. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) borrow-feehard-to-borrowdailyshort-sellingAugust 282026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-08-28 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-08-28 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT On August 28, 2026, the S&P 500 fell 0.25% to 7,711.76, the Nasdaq dropped 0.52% to 26,402.42, and the Russell 2000 sank 1.39% as technology led sectors lower while communication services and consumer discretionary gained. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayAugust 282026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-08-28 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-08-28 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT On August 28, 2026, RNA leads Tapeboard's most shorted stocks leaderboard with a squeeze score of 45.4, 22.4% short interest, and 28.4 days to cover, while RGC's 252.2% borrow fee headlines a board where every name sits on the FINRA threshold list. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeAugust 282026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/squeeze-candidates-2026-08-28 https://tapeboard.com/blog/squeeze-candidates-2026-08-28 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT RNA leads Tapeboard's August 28, 2026 squeeze leaderboard with a 45.4 composite score, on a day where every top-25 name sits on the FINRA short-volume threshold and extreme borrow fees separate the leaders. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezesqueeze-candidatesdailysqueeze-scoreAugust 282026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/trading-halts-2026-08-28 https://tapeboard.com/blog/trading-halts-2026-08-28 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Tapeboard tracked 29 trading halts on August 28, 2026: 18 LULD/volatility halts, 10 T1 news-pending halts, and 1 other regulatory halt, with KXIN the most-halted name of the session. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) trading-haltsluldmarket-eventsdailyAugust 282026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/weekly-recap-2026-08-28 https://tapeboard.com/blog/weekly-recap-2026-08-28 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The S&P 500 rose 0.49% to 7,711.76 and the Nasdaq gained 0.85% to 26,402.42 in the week ending August 28, 2026, as tech and communication services led while small caps fell 1.51% and crude oil dropped 4.16%. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) weekly-recapweeklystock-market-this-week https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-z-score https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-z-score Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A z-score measures how many standard deviations a data point sits above or below the mean of its distribution, letting traders quantify how unusual a price, spread, or indicator reading is relative to its own history. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsquantitative-concepts https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-cagr https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-cagr Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the constant annual rate at which an investment would have grown to go from its starting value to its ending value over a given period, smoothing out year-to-year volatility. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsquantitative-concepts https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-pin-risk https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-pin-risk Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Pin risk is the risk that an options seller faces when the underlying stock closes at or very near the strike price of a short option at expiration, leaving assignment uncertain until after the market closes. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsoptions https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-quadruple-witching https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-quadruple-witching Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Quadruple witching is the quarterly expiration day when stock index futures, stock index options, single-stock options, and single-stock futures all expire simultaneously, producing some of the highest-volume trading sessions of the year. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsmarket-events https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-nbbo https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-nbbo Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The NBBO (National Best Bid and Offer) is the highest displayed bid price and lowest displayed ask price for a stock across all U.S. exchanges, and it defines the best available price at which an order can be executed. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsmarket-structure https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-08-27 https://tapeboard.com/blog/most-shorted-stocks-2026-08-27 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT On August 27, 2026, CELU leads Tapeboard's most shorted stocks leaderboard with a squeeze score of 39.2 and 10.24 days to cover, while RGC carries an extreme 258.9% borrow fee and 21 of the top 25 names sit on the FINRA threshold list. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezemost-shorted-stocksdailyborrow-feeAugust 272026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/squeeze-candidates-2026-08-27 https://tapeboard.com/blog/squeeze-candidates-2026-08-27 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT CELU leads Tapeboard's August 27, 2026 squeeze leaderboard at 39.2/100 on a day when 14 of the top 15 names sat on the FINRA short-volume threshold list. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) short-squeezesqueeze-candidatesdailysqueeze-scoreAugust 272026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/trading-halts-2026-08-27 https://tapeboard.com/blog/trading-halts-2026-08-27 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT On August 27, 2026, Tapeboard tracked 45 trading halts — 42 LULD/volatility halts, 2 T1 news-pending halts, and 1 other regulatory halt — led by BRNX, which was halted 11 times, and capped by T1 news-pending halts in CYCU and CYCUW at 7:50 PM ET. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) trading-haltsluldmarket-eventsdailyAugust 272026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-married-put https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-married-put Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A married put is an options strategy where an investor buys shares of a stock and simultaneously buys a protective put option on the same shares, capping downside while preserving unlimited upside. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsoptions https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-volume-spike https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-volume-spike Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A volume spike is a sudden, statistically abnormal surge in trading volume — typically two to five times the average — that signals new information entering the market and often precedes or confirms a major price move. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionstechnical-analysis https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-backtesting https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-backtesting Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Backtesting is the process of applying a trading strategy's rules to historical price data to measure how the strategy would have performed, quantified through metrics like return, drawdown, and Sharpe ratio. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsquantitative-trading https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-fed-put https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-fed-put Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Fed put is the market's belief that the Federal Reserve will ease monetary policy in response to sharp equity declines, effectively placing a floor under stock prices like a put option. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsmacro https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-greeks https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-the-greeks Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Greeks are a set of sensitivity measures — delta, gamma, theta, vega, and rho — that quantify how an option's price responds to changes in the underlying price, time, volatility, and interest rates. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionsoptions https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-08-26 https://tapeboard.com/blog/highest-borrow-fee-stocks-2026-08-26 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT JZ tops Tapeboard's market-wide hard-to-borrow ranking at an 815.9% annualized borrow fee as of August 26, 2026, with 14 names sitting in the hard-to-borrow or extreme tier. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) borrow-feehard-to-borrowdailyshort-sellingAugust 262026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-08-26 https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-08-26 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT On August 26, 2026, US stocks closed essentially flat — the S&P 500 slipped 0.02% to 7,675.70, the Nasdaq fell 0.08% to 26,130.20, and the Dow dropped 0.21% to 53,463.88 — while industrials led sectors and the Russell 2000 held a +19.84% year-to-date gain. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) market-pulsedailystock-market-todayAugust 262026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/trading-halts-2026-08-26 https://tapeboard.com/blog/trading-halts-2026-08-26 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Tapeboard tracked 33 trading halts on August 26, 2026 — 23 LULD/volatility halts, 8 T1 news-pending halts, and 2 other regulatory halts — with IMCC's evening T1 news-pending halt the most recent of the session. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Desk) trading-haltsluldmarket-eventsdailyAugust 262026 https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-gap-fill https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-gap-fill Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A gap fill occurs when a stock's price retraces back through the price range it skipped over during an overnight or intraday gap, 'filling' the void left on the chart. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionstechnical-analysis https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-spin-off https://tapeboard.com/blog/glossary-what-is-a-spin-off Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT A spin-off is a corporate action in which a parent company distributes shares of a subsidiary to its existing shareholders on a pro-rata basis, creating an independent publicly traded company. editor@tapeboard.com (Tapeboard Staff) glossarydefinitionscorporate-actions