Short Side

ShortSide.com is an ASP application which provides short selling market color, via securities lending analytics, to investment management professionals.  Often, Stock Exchanges only offer short interest data twice a month and with several days lag, if any at all, leaving investors in the dark regarding daily short selling activity. ShortSide.com fills this void with daily, up-to-date information from the global securities finance market, and enables users to gauge changes in investor sentiment.

Features

  • Designed with a trader’s time constraints in mind
  • Achieves sub-second response times to crucial pre-trade queries
  • Shows graphical representation for quick data interpretation
  • Contains data that is only one-day old, updating by 7:30 am EST each morning with borrows that were outstanding as of the market open
  • Helps enable users to view and/or download up to 15 months of historical data
  • Contains user definable watch lists
  • Provides a database infrastructure and application design built, owned and maintained by SunGard
  • Protects all data through external and internal non-disclosure agreements

Benefits

  • Facilitates better informed execution and trading decisions which can lead to increased performance and higher profitability
  • Allows you to gauge potential trading costs for short sales before committing to a deal and its impact on your bottom line
  • Provides risk management insights which can help protect against possible short squeezes by monitoring changes in borrowed shares

Who Could Benefit from Short Side?

Analysts, traders and portfolio managers at:

  • Hedge Funds
  • Proprietary Trading Desks
  • 130/30 Funds
  • Long-only Hedge Funds
  • Long/Short Hedge Funds
  • Institutional Investors
  • Research Analysts

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