Press & media kit
Shorted.com.au tracks short selling on the Australian Securities Exchange using official ASIC short position reports, with daily updates and history back to 2010. Journalists and researchers are welcome to cite and quote this data.
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How to cite us
For a figure quoted in an article, cite the page you took it from and the date — our numbers move daily.
Suggested wording
“According to Shorted.com.au, $88.3 billion was short-sold across 3267 ASX-listed companies as of 2026-07-20, including $10.2 billion against the big four banks.”
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Dataset citation (academic / research)
Shorted.com.au (2026). ASX Short Position Data, aggregated from ASIC daily short position reports. https://shorted.com.au/data
What you may republish
- Our aggregate figures — totals, percentages and rankings derived from ASIC data — may be quoted freely with attribution and a link.
- Our charts may be embedded live (see below) or screenshotted with a visible credit.
- The underlying ASIC data is public. Our compiled datasets are offered under CC BY 4.0 — attribute both Shorted.com.au and ASIC. See the open data hub.
- Read the methodology before quoting a figure — in particular the T+4 reporting delay, which means every number describes positions four trading days earlier.
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Quick facts
- Data source
- ASIC daily short position reports
- Coverage
- 4,500+ ASX-listed securities, 2010 to present
- Update cadence
- Daily, with ASIC's T+4 trading day delay
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 for our compiled datasets
- Total short-sold
- $88.3 billion
- As at
- 2026-07-20
Contact
Shorted.com.au is built and run by Ben Ebsworth. For data questions, interview requests, a custom cut of the data, or corrections, email [email protected]. Corrections are welcome and acted on quickly — if a figure looks wrong, please say so before publishing.