What it returns
Daily short-sale volume for every US-listed and OTC ticker, from FINRA's official Reg SHO daily files, plus SEC fails-to-deliver records, in one clean JSON feed.
Short volume** (2009-08 to today): date, symbol, short volume, short-exempt volume, total volume, **short ratio**, reporting markets. Exchange-listed (NMS) or OTC. Fails-to-deliver**: settlement date, symbol, CUSIP, quantity, description, price, and dollar value.
Common uses
Short-pressure and squeeze screens: rank tickers by short ratio on any day. Backtests: complete point-in-time history keyed by trade date. Track FTD spikes for a ticker over months.
Request
POST https://api.pushbuild.com/finra-short-volume/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
dataset | string: shortVolume, failsToDeliver | Which dataset to return. Default: "shortVolume". |
symbols | list of strings | e.g. GME, AMC. Leave empty to scan every ticker (date range then limited to 31 days). |
dateFrom | string | YYYY-MM-DD. Short volume goes back to 2009-08. Default: 30 days ago with symbols, 3 days without. |
dateTo | string | YYYY-MM-DD. Default: today. |
market | string: nms, otc | Short volume only. Default: "nms". |
minShortRatio | number | Short volume / total volume, 0-1. Short volume only. |
minTotalVolume | integer | Short volume only. |
minQuantity | integer | Fails-to-deliver only. |
sort | string: newest, oldest | Date order. Default: "newest". |
maxItems | integer | Maximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100. |
Example
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/finra-short-volume/run \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"symbols": ["GME"], "maxItems": 20}'Response
{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.
Pricing
Pay only for results returned: $0.16 per 1,000 rows. No charge for errors or empty searches.
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