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Unlock a detailed view of the short score for securities. This endpoint provides ORTEX's proprietary composite score (0–100), offering rich and actionable insights into relative short-selling pressure and a clear perspective on market dynamics and investor positioning.
This API returns data for multiple stocks — every constituent of a market index, or of one of your own universes — for the specified date.
Available Data Points:
- Date: The specific date for which the data is retrieved (
YYYY-MM-DDformat). - Exchange Symbol: Symbol of the exchange where the security trades.
- Ticker: The ticker symbol associated with the security.
- Company Name: The name of the company issuing the security.
- Ortex Company ID: Unique id for a company.
- Ortex Security ID: Unique id for a security issued by a company.
- Ortex Tradable Item ID: Unique id for a listing of a security.
- Short Score: ORTEX composite score (0-100) indicating relative short-selling pressure.
Try it out! You can test the API with the trial key TEST. Simply include it in your request headers; either here, or add the header "Ortex-Api-Key": "TEST" to your http request.
Trial key restrictions: Trial keys may be limited to a specific date range and set of regions. Requests outside the allowed regions or entirely outside the allowed date range are rejected; a date window that partially overlaps the allowed range is trimmed to it, reported in meta.restriction.
Get full access! Get a key at app.ortex.com/apis