Short Side
ShortSide.com is an ASP application which provides short selling market color, via securities lending analytics, to investment management professionals. Each trading day, SunGard's Astec Analytics monitors more than 2.4 million securities lending transactions at 30 financial institutions, tracking more than 29,000 unique securities on loan.
Features
- Displays market color to facilitate better informed execution and trading decisions: Determine the number of shares of a stock that have already been borrowed and shorted before executing your trade; monitor trends and trend reversals in short selling activity
- Gauge potential trading costs for short sales: Track fees paid to borrow stock, as required for short sales. Use borrowing fees to identify hard-to-borrow issues.
- Provides risk management insights: Protect against possible short squeezes by monitoring changes in borrowed shares; use this information to be one of the first to cover a short before an identified impending squeeze
- Allows you to compare similar stocks in any sector: See whether a stock has been shorted more or less than its peers in its respective sector
Benefits
- Contains data that is only one-day old, updating by 7:30 am NY time
- Offers easy access to 15-months historical data
- Shows graphical representation for quick data interpretation
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