The Short Interest of a given stock is a simple measure defined as the number of shares shorted divided by the totally available float (the float are the number of shares available to the public for buying or shorting).

Below, a live list of top shorted stocks in terms of their Short Interest are shown. Note that there is a limit: Only stocks with a Short Interest above 0.1 are shown.

Download the whole dataset with the Short Interest for each stock here. Note that you have to be logged in (but an account is free). For developers: Just send the cookie in the headers.

Example:
import requests cookies = {'session': '2a326712bc71a7cb16b2...'} r = requests.get( 'https://alphalerts.com/live-top-short-interest/download', cookies=cookies ) print(r.content.decode()) # WKHS,0.54 # SPRT,0.41 # ...

Live Top Shorted Stocks in terms of Short Interest