I would like to know a website that will show me the percentage of investors who have gone long on a particular stock versus those who have gone short.
2007-02-12 05:28:27 · 4 answers · asked by answer? 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
Short interest is listed as public information BUT it only comes out monthly and therefore is normally outdated.
You can find it in Yahoo! Finance.
Look at GOOG (see link)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=GOOG
Look at "Share Statistics" and "Short % of Float"
The short interest is 1.9% (of Float - available shares) are SHORT the stock leaving 98.1% LONG. But notice that has a Jan 9th date. (so it is not current).
So what many will do is look at the TREND over the past few months. On that page you see there were 6.16M shares short in Dec bu only 5.81M on Jan. Therefore the SHORTS have been covering from Dec to Jan.
Try the link below for SHORT data
2007-02-12 05:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by random_market_investor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Short interest on any stock can change from day to day.To short a stock the broker has to loan you the stock if they have any shares.If the stock falls in price then you can sell the stock back to the broker at a lower price and you make the difference.That's called buy to cover shorting is dangerous some times especially if the stock rises in price.Most of the time to do this kind of trading you have to have a margin account set up with the broker.
http://pennystocks.forumsfourfree.com
2007-02-12 05:50:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want real time data, then you must pay for it through an exchange.
Check out these sites.
2007-02-12 06:55:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wherever you get your financial news, look for something called "short interest."
2007-02-12 05:35:57 · answer #4 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋