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Stocks that are heavily shorted

  • 10-05-2013 6:07pm
    #1
    Carnegie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭


    Does anyone know where to get a list of stocks that are heavily shorted? Or how can you find out what % of the share float of a company is shorted?


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  • #2
    delux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭delux


    Yep.
    Nasdaq stocks here:
    http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspx

    and UK & Irish stocks here:
    https://www.euroclear.com/en/web-apps/stock-loan-data.html?ev=event2

    I did spend quite some time a few years ago looking for a correlation between short interest/days to cover, and predicting future price movements and didn't come up with anything of use though. Anyway, good luck to you.


  • #3
    Carnegie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭Carnegie


    Thanks, its good to just keep an eye on these stocks for any good news. The likes of solar stocks, tesla, yahoo, RIM have seen massive gains in the last year due to being heavily shorted and then having better than expected earnings or outlooks.


  • #4
    delux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭delux


    there's also this website:
    http://shortsqueeze.com/

    I havent looked at it in years though so not sure how good it is now.


  • #5
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,781 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Sorry for the newbie question but if I have a stock in mind I am thinking about shorting - how do I actually do this?


  • #6
    strmin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭strmin


    Zascar wrote: »
    Sorry for the newbie question but if I have a stock in mind I am thinking about shorting - how do I actually do this?

    Check with your broker if any stock available to short. Pay borrowing fee, sell it and hope share price will go lower.


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