Bridging the Data Gap
Official exchange-reported short interest, such as the data published by FINRA, is accurate but inherently stale, often lagging by over a week. Ortex provides a critical alternative by modeling short interest on a daily basis using securities-lending data. This allows analysts to track 'live' changes in short interest, utilization rates, and cost-to-borrow metrics. By monitoring these estimates, traders can identify when short positions are growing or shrinking well before the official bi-monthly reports are released, providing a significant informational advantage in volatile markets.
Signal data sourced from Ortex. This post is an original analysis prepared by The Forensic Ledger from publicly available data. Not investment advice.
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