See where crowded shorts meet a turning market.
The Short Interest Scanner pairs short interest data with the trend read and surfaces the squeeze candidates, so you can spot where heavy short positioning lines up with a market starting to lean the other way.
Short interest is only half the story.
A crowded short is not an edge on its own. The scanner adds the trend read, so you see which heavily shorted names are also turning, and which are still falling.
See the crowding
Short interest is laid out for every name we cover, so you can tell at a glance where positioning is one-sided.
Add the trend read
Market Pulse layers in where each name sits on the trend. A crowded short that is bottoming reads very differently from one still in decline.
Surface the candidates
Where heavy short interest meets a turning trend, the scanner flags it. That overlap is where covering can build.
Filter to the setups
Presets narrow the list to high short float, high borrow cost, and squeeze candidates, so you skip the noise and see the names that matter.
When the crowd is short and the trend turns.
A name with heavy short interest that is still trending down is doing exactly what the shorts expected. Buying it just because the float is crowded is how you catch a falling knife. The crowding alone tells you nothing about timing.
That same name reads as a different setup once the trend starts to turn. A reversal can force crowded shorts to cover, and that pressure builds on itself. Pairing short interest with the trend read turns raw positioning into something you can time.
The numbers that time a squeeze.
Crowded float is only the start. The scanner lays out short interest as a percentage, days to cover, and the recent change for every name, so you can tell a genuinely cornered short from one with room to keep falling.
- Read short interest and days to cover side by side, so you see how crowded a name is and how long a cover would take.
- Filter with one click to high short float, high borrow cost, or squeeze candidates, instead of scrolling the whole list.
- Check the trend read on each name, so you act when a crowded short is actually starting to turn.
A crowded short is a setup waiting for a trigger.
Finding heavily shorted names is easy. Knowing which ones are actually ready to move is the part that matters. The scanner keeps you patient while the trend is against the squeeze and ready when it starts to turn.
Wait for the turn
A crowded short in a downtrend is just a short that is working. The read tells you to leave it alone until the trend shifts.
Act on the overlap
When heavy short interest meets a turning trend, that is where covering pressure can build. The scanner puts those names in front of you.
Watch days to cover
A high short float with many days to cover is the setup with the most fuel. When the trend turns on a name like that, covering has the furthest to run.
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Stop screening short float in isolation. Let the trend read tell you which crowded names are ready to move.