$WEN option chain expiring today (July 10 2026) over 180K volume in puts. Shorts are not taking profits in order to prevent the price from going up. Puts expiring in the money convert into naked short positions

Currently a hedhe position of about 6 million worth of stock is expected to be closed by market makers and delivered directly to the shorts accounts. If they manage to crash the price by the end of the trading day to under $7 that's gonna be 18 million shares.

If however, institutions or retail push the price by 10-12 percent bellow break-even for the $8.5 puts, that's 18 million worth of shares expiring worthless.

Curret SI sits at around 35 percent or 51 million shares making it an increase of over 20 percent assuming market makers opened these with exemptions which is highly probable but speculative. Official FTD data from the past months will only report on July 17th. Updated short interest releasing today after market close.

Borrowing pool has fluctuating between 0 to 1 million since July 24th. Whether it's 6 million, or 18 millon, There is no realistic way to locate this amount of shares to short.