Daily and intraday estimated short interest, cost to borrow, utilization, availability and disclosed positions for 52,700+ securities.
- Coverage
- 52,700+ securities
- History
- Daily from 2012
- Speed
- Pre-open daily; intraday for 15,800 US securities
Positioning, filings, research, events, alternative data and reference data, on one set of identifiers, so any of them joins onto any other. Point-in-time history, scored against the official record where there is one, and delivered however your desk works.
Who is short, who is hedged, and how crowded the trade has become.
Daily and intraday estimated short interest, cost to borrow, utilization, availability and disclosed positions for 52,700+ securities.
Full US option chains since 2012, put/call ratios, moneyness, implied volatility, dealer gamma, unusual flow and squeeze score.
What insiders, officials, companies and activists are doing with their own money.
Director and officer dealings from 80+ official sources in 50+ markets, 7.1m transactions, scored for conviction.
All three branches of US government in one feed, within a minute of publication, including paper filings.
233,000+ buyback announcements since 1989 across 21,000 companies, plus executed spend read from filings.
13D/13G activist stakes checked every 10 minutes, 13F holdings from 9,000+ managers, Form 144 and fund portfolios.
The numbers behind the price, and what the Street thinks of them.
Rating and target changes as published, 71,500 a year from 500 firms, consensus and estimates, analyst track records.
Standardized income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, ratios and valuation, annual and quarterly.
Value, quality, momentum, growth and total scores for 47,200 companies daily, plus correlation-based peer groups.
Every date that can move a position, and the forced trades around index reviews.
Pre-earnings briefs two to three days ahead, plus the earnings calendar, surprises, past reactions and call summaries.
Dividends, splits, M&A, spin-offs, buyback programs, index changes and lock-ups: 110,000+ events a year.
Earnings dates, calls and conferences, plus a global macro calendar with actual, forecast, previous and surprise.
Daily forecasts of additions and deletions for 28 indices in 10 markets, with conviction and flow; 87% of calls right on the major rules-based benchmarks.
Real-world activity, published before the companies report it.
122 datasets, 734 series from 155 publishers in 50+ countries: vehicles, transport, financials, healthcare, energy, consumer and macro.
The data, written up: what moved, by how much, against what baseline.
Stock Pulses, Earnings Previews, Trader Notes, Convergence Reports, Commentary and Stock Reports, written from ORTEX data.
The foundation layer every other dataset joins onto.
End-of-day prices for 95,000+ securities from 1964, market cap, shares, free float, volume and volatility.
Daily NAV, shares outstanding, net assets and money flow for 17,800 ETFs from the issuers, history from 1984.
Reviewed logos for 52,000+ companies and 18,600+ funds in light and dark, plus 2,200 portraits.
One measured proof point per dataset, read from ORTEX production data in September 2026.
of estimates within one percentage point of free float of the official figure, across 2.1m official prints.
of add and delete calls right the day before announcement on the major rules-based benchmarks; 90% on the FTSE 100, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000.
median lead on reported revenue for the 55 series with a significant, out-of-sample lead.
from publication to the ORTEX feed, for all three branches, paper filings included.
the insider trading days of the leading global aggregator, from reading regulators directly.
option contract records: every listed US contract, every day since 2012.
pieces published since March 2026, each triggered by a move in ORTEX data.
rating and target changes captured in the last 12 months, each with the prior values.
funds with a daily NAV, shares and flow figure, read from the issuers.
Short-interest estimates scored against 2.1 million official prints. Index forecasts scored after every review. Alternative data tested for lead. The numbers are in this brochure.
Regulators, exchanges, issuers and official statistics offices read directly, not resold second-hand. Every figure traces back to where and when it was published.
Insider and government filings within a minute of publication, short data before the US open and intraday, analyst actions every ten minutes, index forecasts before the open.
Every dataset is dated to when the market could first have known it, and late corrections never rewrite history. Backtests see only what was knowable.
95,000 securities priced from 1964, 52,700 with daily short interest, insider data from more than 50 markets, alternative data from more than 50 countries.
Every dataset shares one set of identifiers and one API, so adding the next dataset is a query, not a project.
One set of identifiers, one API and a delivery route for every kind of team.
A documented REST API returning JSON or CSV: one stock's full history, a whole region on a single date, or your own universe in one call. A free test key gets a developer started in minutes.
An entire region's data for a date in a single request, complete before the US open and published only when the day is final.
Scheduled daily files delivered over SFTP or straight to your own Amazon S3 bucket, for teams that load data into a warehouse rather than call an API.
A Python SDK for research pipelines and a native Microsoft Excel add-in, so the same numbers reach models and spreadsheets without re-keying.
RSS, webhooks and email for Market Intelligence and alerts, filterable by ticker, type, theme and severity.
The ORTEX platform on web and mobile, and ORTEX data on Nasdaq Data Link, the Benzinga Data Marketplace and Exchange Data International.
When short interest makes headlines, ORTEX estimates are often the figures quoted, by Reuters, Bloomberg and financial media around the world.
ORTEX daily short-interest estimates, published as a Nasdaq Data Link database.
ORTEX short interest and securities lending data, distributed since April 2026.
ORTEX short interest data and analysis, distributed since June 2025.
ORTEX Market Intel insights published to Smartkarma's institutional research network.
Tools built on the catalog, for ORTEX platform subscribers.
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Coverage, history and figures are as at September 2026. 18 datasets. Provided for information purposes only; not investment advice.