Short Interest

API to retrieve short interest for a given ticker on a given exchange

This API provides the raw number of shares estimated to be shorted, the widely used short-interest percentage of free float, the number of shares available to trade, and the USD value of the estimated short position.

Available Data Points:

  • Date: Date for the short interest data. (YYYY-MM-DD format).
  • Short Interest Percentage of Free Float: Short interest estimate as % of free float.
  • Short Interest Shares: Short interest estimate in number of shares.
  • Short Interest USD: USD value (shortInterestShares * closing price).

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: A list of randomly selected rows will be returned

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Path Params
string
required

Exchange symbol (e.g. "nyse", "nasdaq"), MIC code (e.g. "xnys", "xnas") or two character ISO country code (e.g "us", "ca" for ALL country exchanges)

string
required

Ticker symbol

Query Params
string
enum
Defaults to json

Format of the response. Can be "json" or "csv". Default is "json".

Allowed:
date

Starting date for short interest data (defaults to one month ago). Format: YYYY-MM-DD

integer

A page number within the paginated result set.

integer

Number of results to return per page.

date

Ending date for short interest data (defaults to today). Format: YYYY-MM-DD

Headers
string
enum
required
Allowed:
Responses

400

Invalid request parameters

403

Not authorized

404

Data not found

429

Rate limit exceeded

500

Internal server error

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