Tracking short interest

[MikeC]

How do i know if my shares have been loaned out to shorts ? I just let my shares be in my Schwabb account.

They can only be loaned out if you bought them on margin or explicitly agreed to lend them out.

 

[SimplyThis]

They can only be loaned out if you bought them on margin or explicitly agreed to lend them out.

Could be you agreed on that by signing the conditions when you opened the account.
Just ask them, that's what I did.
They can tell you how to prevent loaning as well.

 

[tander]

Anybody loaning right now? Getting .373% from Fidelity right now.

 

[neroden]

Anybody loaning right now? Getting .373% from Fidelity right now.

I probably should but I'm not, long story about margins and different brokerage accounts and no free time...

 

[Yonki]

Anybody loaning right now? Getting .373% from Fidelity right now.

Yes, but Fidelity’s giving me a whopping 0.375%.

 

[Yonki]

Fidelity interest rate up to 0.5%. 90,505 shares available to short. Unlike the last few years, when you go to short the stock, it's not showing what rate they are currently charging to short (historically it's been about twice the loan rate).

 

[neroden]

Dammit no time to move shares to Fidelity too busy buying another Tesla car

 

[Yonki]

Weird - Fidelity has practically no TSLA shares left to borrow (3,530), and Ihor says short interest rates are rising, but Fidelity's rate to loan just went from 0.5% to 0.375%.

 

[EinSV]

Weird - Fidelity has practically no TSLA shares left to borrow (3,530), and Ihor says short interest rates are rising, but Fidelity's rate to loan just went from 0.5% to 0.375%.

There may have been some covering yesterday. Be interesting to see if the rate goes up again after this morning's antics.

 

[Watts_Up]

Interesting comments at 1:22 Tesla Short Squeeze! | In Depth

" 34.72 % of Tesla shares are shorted shares " ... while only " 1% of Apple stock is being shorted "​

 

[Stars aligned]

TSLA has low borrow fee, close to borrow fee of top notch companies and far away of ...ahem... new age stocks...

Any insights what high / low borrow fees mean in terms of quality of shorted stock?


Ihor Dusaniwsky‏ @ihors3

 

[neroden]

I think there are a lot of longs loaning their stock out now, more than there used to be. Probably accounts for the low borrow fee.

 

[Stars aligned]

I think there are a lot of longs loaning their stock out now, more than there used to be. Probably accounts for the low borrow fee.

Maybe, but something makes me think that stocks with low borrowing rates are seen as inherently stabler and companies have a safer / brigther future than stocks with excessive lending rates. 25 to 74% lending rates is a huge multiple to 0.99%, and the short ratio of those is maybe double that of Tesla.
My conclusion is that Tesla shorts can't be taken seriously. They seem to be either fake (short position neutralised/hedged by whatever means) or dumb....

 

[EinSV]

Lending rate at Fidelity increased from 0.375% to 0.50%. Not definitive but suggests increased share price lately is due to buying interest, not short covering.

 

[MikeC]

I'm curious what rates, if any, people are seeing now? I stopped lending so can't see that info any more.

 

[MikeC]

I'm curious what rates, if any, people are seeing now? I stopped lending so can't see that info any more.

Anybody? @EinSV @Yonki @tander

 

[kengchang]

0.26% from IB

 

[Yonki]

A friend just had her TSLA shares loaded out for 0.125% at Fidelity. (I have many more shares but Fidelity hasn't tapped mine yet.) So to the extent I understand any of this (which is not much), it seems to be getting harder to borrow shares.

 

[JRod0802]

The updated short interest just came in, and it looks like we're at 22,752,621, which is a low point in the last 12 months.
Tesla, Inc. Common Stock (TSLA) Short Interest

Does anyone know how to get data from more than just the trailing 12 months? I'm asking because I'm thinking of putting together a graph like the one that chickensevil put together, but I'd like to do it starting with when TSLA went public and ending it now, so that I can see the whole trend of short interest over time compared to stock price.

 

[Oil4AsphaultOnly]

The updated short interest just came in, and it looks like we're at 22,752,621, which is a low point in the last 12 months.
Tesla, Inc. Common Stock (TSLA) Short Interest

Does anyone know how to get data from more than just the trailing 12 months? I'm asking because I'm thinking of putting together a graph like the one that chickensevil put together, but I'd like to do it starting with when TSLA went public and ending it now, so that I can see the whole trend of short interest over time compared to stock price.

Using the wayback machine, you can only go back to Oct '19: Wayback Machine

Edit: Actually, if you're willing to comb the 201x investor/trading threads, the short interest was almost always referenced by someone, so it can definitely be pieced together.