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DroneShield starts October as the most shorted company on the ASX at 15.07%, with Boss Energy, Lotus Resources and Iperionx behind it. The October 2026 edition of the short list, from ASIC data to 30 September: the top ten, the four-week builders and coverers, the uranium, lithium and defence clusters, and the positions that would take weeks of ordinary trading to unwind.
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Shorted's new stock picker runs four named strategies over every ASX stock we track, starting with Dan Zanger's breakout method. Every rule is scored pass, fail or unknown against published data: ASIC short positions, daily prices and volume, the S&P/ASX 200 trend and newly typed company fundamentals. Here is what each rule tests, where the numbers come from, and what the picker cannot see.
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The national dwelling stock is now worth $12.8 trillion and the average home $1.11 million, but that average hides a two-speed market: Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide and Darwin houses are up 15 to 25 per cent in a year while Sydney and Melbourne are flat. Here is the March-quarter picture from ABS, RBA and Valuer-General data, state by state, with the caveats that matter.
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A suburb page on Shorted carries a Valuer-General median, a Census profile, four SEIFA indexes, amenity and school counts, electorates, elevation and hazard shares, recent asking-price cuts and the suburbs most like it. Here is how each layer is built, what it can and cannot tell you, and how to read them together, using Altona North as the worked example.
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Across the 500 suburbs Shorted tracks, 1,661 homes cut their asking price in the past 30 days, a median cut of 4.3 per cent and $110 million of reductions in total. Victoria leads with one in eight listings discounted, and in a handful of outer-Melbourne suburbs it is one in four. What the price-drops data measures, what it does not, and where sellers are blinking first.
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Paste one URL into Claude or ChatGPT and it can read ASIC short positions, house prices, economic series and politicians' declared interests — no API key, no scraping, no setup. Here's what we built and the decisions behind it.
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Glaucus, Bonitas, VGI. A short report can take a third off an ASX company in a session, and Australian outcomes have run the full range from vindication to a Supreme Court finding of misleading conduct. Here's what activist shorting is, what ASIC's INFO 255 asks of everyone involved, and how the landmark campaigns actually resolved.
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Australian reporting season compresses hundreds of results into a few weeks in February and August. For heavily shorted stocks it is the window where a thesis either gets confirmed or gets run over, and ASIC's four-day reporting lag means you watch the covering arrive after the fact. Here is how the season works and how to read short data through it.
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Short interest on the ASX is not spread evenly. It piles into materials, energy and a handful of consumer and healthcare names, and it rotates as commodity cycles turn. Here's how sector-level short interest is actually constructed, what drives it, and how to read the industry view without being misled by a handful of microcaps.
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Shorting an ASX stock costs more than brokerage. Borrow fees accrue daily, margin ties up capital, and the short seller pays the dividend to the lender. Here's how each cost is calculated, what the ranges look like in Australia, and why the borrow rate you're quoted is broker-specific.
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Days to cover measures how long the shorts would need to exit at normal trading volume. It's the metric that separates a crowded short you can walk away from and one that's trapped. Here's the formula, ASX-calibrated bands, and what ASIC's T+4 reporting does to the calculation.
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Short selling is expensive, risky and asymmetric, which is why the positions that survive tend to be well researched. The academic record broadly agrees that short sellers are informed. But the strongest results are about the whole market rather than individual stocks, and the cross-sectional evidence has a robustness problem worth understanding before you trade on it.
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There are four practical ways to take short exposure to Australian shares, and they differ far more in risk and structure than in headline cost. Here's how covered short selling works under the Corporations Act, what ASIC's CFD rules actually restrict, where options and inverse ETFs fit, and how to check where the crowd already is before you commit.
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Ten ASX stocks carry short interest above 10% of issued capital right now — but crowded shorts alone don't make a squeeze. Here's the four-part checklist, the live screen from ASIC data, and what Zip and Pilbara Minerals teach about how squeezes actually unfold.
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Two weeks after we mapped ASX energy shorts, the tape rotated: Beach bears banked profits, Karoon bears reloaded, and Santos shorts tripled off a record low — all before US strikes on Iran reignited the oil risk premium.
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Lotus Resources tops the ASX short list at 22.81% of issued capital — shorts have added 12.4pp in 90 days. Three uranium names, Domino's, DroneShield, Telix and Flight Centre fill out July's ten most crowded bear positions, from official ASIC data.
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The Iran war sent Brent to US$120+ and back. Yet ASX short sellers didn't pile into oil — they piled into Beach Energy. Here's what the short data reveals about how the pros really played the 2026 oil shock.
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A look at everything new on Shorted — from AI-generated weekly reports and financial highlights to a completely redesigned dashboard experience.
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Hedge funds, pension funds, and retail traders all short the ASX — but their strategies, timeframes, and impact are vastly different. Here's how to tell them apart using ASIC data.
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Every trade has two sides. Learn the fundamental differences between short selling and traditional long investing, the risk profiles of each, and how understanding both makes you a better investor.
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New to short interest data? This plain-English guide explains what short selling data means, why it matters, and how to start using it in your ASX investment research today.
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What triggers a short squeeze on the ASX? Learn the mechanics behind short squeezes, famous Australian examples, and how to spot the warning signs using ASIC data.
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Learn how to interpret and analyze ASX short interest data like a pro. This comprehensive guide covers reading ASIC reports, understanding metrics, and making informed investment decisions.
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Complete guide to short selling in Australia - from ASIC regulations to market impact. Learn how short positions work on the ASX with historical context and expert analysis.
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Explore how Shorted brings clarity to short selling activities in the Australian stock market.
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