# Shorted.com.au > Shorted.com.au tracks official ASIC short position data on ASX-listed securities, and publishes four related Australian datasets: short selling, house prices by suburb, ABS/RBA economic series by state, and the federal register of members' and senators' interests. It provides daily short selling reports, historical analysis back to 2010, industry heatmaps, and reference material on the Corporations Act 2001 short selling framework and ASIC Regulatory Guide 196. ## About Shorted aggregates and visualises official ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) short position data for all ASX-listed securities, alongside Australian house prices, economic series and parliamentary declarations of interest. It serves retail investors, researchers and journalists. - Website: https://shorted.com.au - Contact: support@shorted.com.au ## Key Content - [Most Shorted ASX Stocks](https://shorted.com.au/top): Live rankings of the most shorted stocks on the Australian Securities Exchange, updated daily with ASIC data. - [ASX Short Selling Statistics](https://shorted.com.au/statistics): Aggregate market-wide short interest — total dollars short-sold on the ASX, sector baskets, and weekly movers. Citable, updated daily. - [Battlegrounds — ASX Short Squeeze Candidates](https://shorted.com.au/battlegrounds): Daily-scored short squeeze radar combining short interest, days-to-cover, and price momentum. - [Short Interest Scans](https://shorted.com.au/scans): Fixed daily scans — rising short interest, short covering, heavily shorted (10%+), days-to-cover extremes, covering-into-strength, and shorted-and-falling. - [Daily Market Snapshots](https://shorted.com.au/market): Dated snapshot pages of ASX short positions for every trading day (e.g. /market/2026-07-09). - [Short Position Seasonality](https://shorted.com.au/seasonality): Seasonal patterns in ASX short positions. - [Industry Treemap](https://shorted.com.au/industry): Visual breakdown of short positions by ASX industry sector. - [Industry Intelligence](https://shorted.com.au/industry-intelligence): FY-aggregated tax, government-contract, political-donation and lobbying evidence joined to ASX industries and short interest. - [Individual Stock Pages](https://shorted.com.au/shorts/BHP): Detailed short position analysis for each ASX-listed security with historical charts. - [Compare Stocks](https://shorted.com.au/compare): Side-by-side short interest comparisons across ASX stocks. - [Per-stock News Hub](https://shorted.com.au/shorts/BHP/news): Latest news articles tagged to each ASX stock with AI-classified sentiment. - [ASX News & Editorial Hub](https://shorted.com.au/news): Original short-selling editorial (Shorted Takes) plus aggregated ASX news with AI-classified sentiment, sourced from Stockhead, Motley Fool AU, Small Caps, Kalkine Media, ABC, SMH, AFR and Google News. - [Short Selling Reports](https://shorted.com.au/reports): Weekly, monthly and yearly LLM-narrated reports covering biggest movers, sector shifts, and short-position trends. - [Stock Screener](https://shorted.com.au/screener): Filter ASX stocks by short %, days-to-cover, industry, and other criteria. - [Search ASX Stocks](https://shorted.com.au/search): Search ASX stocks by code or company name. - [Insider Trading & Director Trades](https://shorted.com.au/insider-trading): Per-stock director and insider trades sourced from ASX Appendix 3Y filings. - [Open Data Hub](https://shorted.com.au/data): Public dataset catalog with Dataset schema for Google Dataset Search. - [Australian House Prices Tracker](https://shorted.com.au/housing): ABS/RBA house-price tracker plus a national suburb explorer with census and electoral overlays. - [Residential Price Drops](https://shorted.com.au/price-drops): Suburbs where asking prices are being cut, as derived aggregates. Individual listings are never republished. - [Australian Economy Explorer](https://shorted.com.au/economy): ABS and RBA economic series by state — CPI, labour, trade, GDP proxy, retail, approvals, population — with per-state pages and operations-weighted company exposure. - [Parliament's Portfolio](https://shorted.com.au/politicians): What federal MPs and senators declare in the Registers of Members'/Senators' Interests, joined to ASX companies and suburbs. What is held, never how much. - [Company Directory](https://shorted.com.au/directory): Browsable index of ASX-listed companies. - [Methodology](https://shorted.com.au/methodology): How each dataset is sourced, derived and bounded. - [The Widow-Maker Trade](https://shorted.com.au/features/the-widow-maker): Investigative feature on why betting against Australian housing keeps failing, with interactive dashboards. - [Authors](https://shorted.com.au/authors): Editorial author profiles and credentials. - [API Documentation](https://shorted.com.au/docs/api): Every public endpoint, generated from the service definitions. Machine-readable at /openapi.json; JavaScript-free at /docs/api.md. - [LLM Context Documentation](https://shorted.com.au/docs/llm-context): Detailed platform and data documentation optimised for AI/LLM consumption. ## Programmatic access **Read this before fetching HTML.** The pages listed above are built for browsers and sit behind a bot challenge: an automated client that is not a verified search or AI crawler gets a 403 on them. That is deliberate, and it is not a rate limit — retrying will not help. Everything an agent needs is published separately and is always fetchable, with no challenge and no authentication: `/llms.txt` · `/llms-full.txt` · `/ai.txt` · `/robots.txt` · `/sitemap.xml` · `/feed.xml` · `/openapi.json` · `/openapi.yaml` · `/docs/` (the whole tree) · `/.well-known/` (the whole tree) · `/api/search/stocks` · and the API and MCP endpoints below. If you want the data rather than the page, use the API or the MCP server — both return the same figures the pages render, as JSON, and neither is challenged. - [OpenAPI 3.1 description](https://shorted.com.au/openapi.json): Machine-readable description of every public endpoint. YAML twin at /openapi.yaml. - [API reference (markdown)](https://shorted.com.au/docs/api.md): JavaScript-free reference with worked curl examples. - [API catalog (RFC 9727)](https://shorted.com.au/.well-known/api-catalog): Link set pointing at everything on this list. - [MCP server](https://api.shorted.com.au/mcp): Model Context Protocol endpoint (streamable HTTP, protocol 2026-07-28). 24 read-only tools across short positions, housing, economy and the federal register of interests. Every endpoint is a Connect-RPC method. Call it with an HTTP POST, a JSON body, and the `Connect-Protocol-Version: 1` header. Send an identifying `User-Agent`: the edge rejects the default `curl/...` agent with a 403. curl -X POST https://api.shorted.com.au/shorts.v1alpha1.StockService/GetStock \ -A 'my-app/1.0' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'Connect-Protocol-Version: 1' \ -d '{"productCode":"BHP"}' Authentication is optional: public endpoints work unauthenticated at the anonymous tier (30 requests/minute, 500/month). A bearer token raises those limits — see https://shorted.com.au/docs/api.md ## Educational Resources - [How to Short the ASX](https://shorted.com.au/learn/how-to-short-the-asx): Practical pillar guide to shorting Australian stocks — brokers, instruments (CFDs, options, BBOZ), costs, and regulation. - [What is Short Selling on the ASX?](https://shorted.com.au/learn/what-is-short-selling): Beginner's guide to short selling mechanics, risks, and regulation. - [ASIC Short Selling Regulations & Reporting Requirements](https://shorted.com.au/learn/asic-short-selling-regulations): Comprehensive guide covering the Corporations Act 2001 (s1020B naked short selling prohibition, s1020AB transaction reporting, s1020AC position reporting), ASIC Regulatory Guide 196, the 0.01% reporting threshold, net short position reporting, and the daily ASX short sales report. - [Understanding ASIC's T+4 Delay](https://shorted.com.au/learn/understanding-t4-delay): Why ASIC publishes short position data with a 4 trading day delay. - [How to Read Short Interest Data](https://shorted.com.au/learn/how-to-read-short-interest): Interpreting short interest percentages and market sentiment. - [History of Short Selling on the ASX](https://shorted.com.au/learn/asx-short-selling-history): Evolution of short selling regulation in Australia from the GFC to modern ASIC reporting. - [Short Selling Glossary](https://shorted.com.au/glossary): Key terms including net short position, covered vs naked short selling, and ASIC reporting terminology. - [FAQ](https://shorted.com.au/faq): Answers to common questions about ASIC data, reporting thresholds, and short selling in Australia. ## Regulatory Framework Australian short selling is regulated under the **Corporations Act 2001** and guided by **ASIC Regulatory Guide 196** (RG 196): - **Section 1020B** prohibits naked short selling — sellers must have a securities lending arrangement before executing a short sale. - **Section 1020AB** requires short sale transactions to be flagged and reported to the market operator (ASX) at execution. - **Section 1020AC** requires holders of net short positions to report their positions to ASIC when they reach the reporting threshold. - **Reporting threshold**: 0.01% of a company's total issued capital or $100,000, whichever is less. - **Publication**: ASIC aggregates individual reports and publishes total short positions daily with a T+4 trading day delay. - **ASX approved short sell products**: Only securities meeting ASX liquidity and market capitalisation criteria are eligible for short selling. - **ASX short sales report**: Published daily, containing product code, product name, reported short positions, total shares in issue, and short position percentage for all ASX-listed securities with reportable short positions. ## Data Source All short position data is sourced directly from official ASIC publications. Data is updated daily after ASIC releases new reports, typically in the late afternoon Australian Eastern Time. Historical data is available from 2010 onwards when ASIC began publishing daily aggregated short position data following the Global Financial Crisis. ## MCP Server (for AI agents) Shorted exposes a Model Context Protocol server with read-only tools over all of the data described above — no authentication required, and OAuth 2.1 available to identify a caller: - **Endpoint** (streamable HTTP): `https://api.shorted.com.au/mcp` — protocol 2026-07-28, negotiating back through 2025-11-25, 2025-06-18, 2025-03-26 and 2024-11-05 - **Server card**: [https://shorted.com.au/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json](https://shorted.com.au/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json) - **Tool catalog**: [https://api.shorted.com.au/mcp/catalog.json](https://api.shorted.com.au/mcp/catalog.json) · **Connection guide**: [https://shorted.com.au/docs/mcp.md](https://shorted.com.au/docs/mcp.md) - **Tools** (24): short positions and market (`list_top_shorts`, `get_stock`, `get_stock_history`, `screen_stocks`, `list_squeeze_candidates`, …), housing (`get_house_price_series`, `get_suburb_profile`, …), economy (`list_economic_series`, …) and the register of members' interests (`search_politicians`, `get_politician`, …) - **OAuth 2.1 (optional)**: adding the endpoint URL is the whole setup — the client discovers [/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp](https://api.shorted.com.au/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp) and [/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server](https://api.shorted.com.au/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server), registers itself, and opens a browser once for consent. Scopes are read-only: `shorts:read`, `housing:read`, `economy:read`, `politics:read`. It unlocks nothing, because no tool is reserved for a paid plan. - **Limits**: the ceiling in force is tier-blind and per IP, at the Cloudflare edge — 60 requests per 10s and 300 per minute for anonymous MCP callers, counted per HTTP request. Per-caller tier quotas (anonymous 30/min and 500/month; free 60/min and 1,000/month; paid 120/min and 10,000/month, counted per tool call) are documented entitlements that are **not currently applied** on this deployment; `authentication.rateLimits.enforced` in [the catalog](https://api.shorted.com.au/mcp/catalog.json) reports which is true. A 429 carries `X-RateLimit-Detail` and `Retry-After`. - `https://shorted.com.au/api/mcp/mcp` is the **deprecated** predecessor: 4 tools, and it sits behind the frontend bot challenge, so an MCP client is likely to get a 403 from it. Use the endpoint above. ## Reports - [Reports](https://shorted.com.au/reports): Weekly, monthly and yearly analysis of ASX short selling activity with top movers, industry trends, and AI-generated market narratives. - [RSS Feed](https://shorted.com.au/feed.xml): Blog posts, Shorted Takes editorial, and weekly reports via RSS. ## Blog (LLM-Optimised) - [Blog](https://shorted.com.au/blog): Articles on short selling, market analysis, and platform updates. - Blog posts have a plain-text variant at `/blog/{slug}/llm` — e.g. `/blog/short-squeeze-explained/llm`. Like the rest of the site's HTML it is served to browsers and verified crawlers; an unverified automated fetch gets a 403. ## Optional - [About](https://shorted.com.au/about): Platform mission and team information. - [Privacy Policy](https://shorted.com.au/privacy): Data handling and privacy practices. - [Terms of Service](https://shorted.com.au/terms): Usage terms and conditions. - [Full Documentation](https://shorted.com.au/llms-full.txt): Extended documentation with API reference and detailed platform context.