This Week in the Market

    Thursday, December 6, 2007

    short interest

    Bernie Schaeffer writes, "Brokerage firms are required to report the number of shares that have been shorted in their client accounts. This information is compiled for each security and then released to the public. By monitoring a stock’s short-interest figures, we are able to get an idea of the level of pessimism toward the stock." (Option Advisor, December 2007, volume 27 issue 12)

    YBH? (Yes But How) Where does an individual investor go to retrieve this raw data in a timely manner for any particular stock?

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