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Where the data comes from

Every position published here comes from the official registers of the market authorities. Nothing is estimated, nothing is filled in. The table below says, for each market, whether the last collection succeeded and how far the data goes: a market falling behind must be visible, not guessed.

State of the last collection, market by market.
MarketAuthorityStateData up toOpen positions
FranceAMFup to dateAugust 3, 2026193
BelgiumFSMAup to dateJuly 29, 202614
NetherlandsAFMup to dateAugust 3, 202681
GermanyBundesanzeigerup to dateAugust 4, 2026465
AustriaFMAup to dateJuly 30, 20263
SpainCNMVup to dateAugust 3, 202627
ItalyConsobup to dateAugust 4, 2026108
PolandKNFup to dateAugust 4, 202627
United KingdomFCAup to dateAugust 4, 2026369
NorwayFinanstilsynetup to dateAugust 4, 202636
IrelandCentral Bank of Irelandup to datenone0
SwedenFinansinspektionenup to dateAugust 5, 2026258
DenmarkFinanstilsynetup to dateMay 29, 202644
FinlandFinanssivalvontaup to dateAugust 3, 202639

The trace of every figure

A figure you cannot check is a figure you have to believe, and this site asks for neither. For each market: the exact file that answered, the time it was read, how many rows came out of it and how many were set aside for being unreadable.

Provenance and volume of the last collection.
MarketCollected onRows readSet asideFile downloaded
France2026-08-05 13:48401230export_od_vad_20260805111500_20260805123001.csv
Belgium2026-08-05 13:49140shortselling
Netherlands2026-08-05 13:489030export.aspx?type=8a46a4ef-f196-4467-a7ab-1ae1cb58f0e7&format=csv,export.aspx?type=3ca31b3d-23d9-4fa2-b846-29c7e3f0e5ff&format=csv
Germany2026-08-05 13:484740nlp?0--top~csv~form~panel-form-csv~resource~link
Austria2026-08-05 13:49251QryNetShortPositions.aspx
Spain2026-08-05 13:48270NetShortPositions.xls
Italy2026-08-05 13:481082fbefe0a2-795b-bad3-9369-beccbeb14f27
Poland2026-08-05 13:49280index.html
United Kingdom2026-08-05 13:484250aggregated-current-net-short-positions.csv,aggregated-historic-net-short-positions.csv
Norway2026-08-05 13:49103290instruments
Ireland2026-08-05 13:4900table-of-significant-net-short-positions-in-shares.xlsx?sfvrsn=49c7d61d_968
Sweden2026-08-05 13:492585259GetAktuellFile,GetHistFile
Denmark2026-08-05 13:49883702026-05-ss-over-05-pct.xlsx
Finland2026-08-05 13:49390current

The rows set aside are the ones a regulator publishes without a readable position: a below-threshold marker, an empty date cell, a separator line. They are counted rather than hidden, because a silent drop is how a tracker starts lying.

What to know about these registers

A net short position must be reported from 0.1% of capital but is only made public from 0.5%. The totals shown here therefore never represent all short selling.

A fund rediscloses its position at every move. The current position is its most recent disclosure; the earlier ones are history.

The FSMA no longer publishes a file: the positions are read from its public page.

The FMA no longer publishes a file: the positions are read from its public page.

The KNF no longer publishes a file: the positions are read from its public page.

Since 13 July 2026 the FCA no longer publishes the name of the funds, only the total per company.

The Finanstilsynet updates its file only once a month: this market is behind the others by construction, and the "Data up to" column says by how much.