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CAR · Avis Budget Group $113.01 -2.23 (-1.94%) 2026-SEP-18 12:41 EST

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2026-JUN-28 · Jay Singh · Weekly SSR research call (premium) · Neutralinsight · source page ↗$164.65

In short: "Some pretty interesting option trades" here: a proposed ~$650M cash windfall from Pentwater under the Section 16(b) short-swing-profit rule (the fund liquidated too soon after a >600% squeeze) — the stock rallied on the 8-K.

In plain English

An unusual windfall: a hedge fund (Pentwater) had to hand Avis a proposed ~$650 million in cash under the "short-swing profit" rule — a law that forces big insiders who buy and sell a stock within six months to give back the gains. The fund sold too soon after a massive squeeze, so it owes the profits to the company. Avis rose on the news; Singh had "interesting option trades" around it.

Full passage: premium transcript (PDF).

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2026-APR-21 · Paulo Macro · Paulo Macro (Substack, paid) · Neutralinsight · read ↗ · source page ↗$624.00

In short: The "Max Stupid" subject: a single short-squeezing stock jamming a whole index to new highs — a false-breadth top tell, not a stated short. As the #1 Dow Transports constituent (18% of a price-weighted index), its squeeze drove the Transports from -10% off highs to "an upside crash," exactly as it did to the Russell (>40bps) with a $174→$545 one-day rip on Nov 2 2021 — which marked the start of the long unwind.

In plain English

Avis is the car-rental company. Paulo isn't making a buy or sell call — he's using it as a warning sign about the whole market. When a stock has a lot of bets against it (short sellers) and suddenly rockets, those shorts are forced to buy back in, sending it even higher — a "short squeeze." The catch is that some stock-market indexes are built so that a single company can count for a huge share of the index; if that one stock explodes, it can drag the entire index to a new high even though almost nothing else is participating. That's fake strength.

He saw exactly this in November 2021, when an Avis squeeze single-handedly pushed the small-cap Russell index to new highs right before the market's long decline began. Today Avis is 18% of the Dow Transportation index and is doing it again — hauling the Transports "up through the sky" on its own. To Paulo that's not a healthy rally; it's a flush and a top-tell: "this tape is not well."

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