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Short-sale volume API

Daily short-volume data, one clean API call.

Daily short-sale volume for every US-listed ticker, straight from FINRA's Reg SHO consolidated tape — short, short-exempt and total share volume per trade date, with the short-of-total percentage computed for you. Public-domain data, delivered the agent-native way.

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Short, short-exempt and total volume for every trade date
Computed short % of total volume on each row
Every US-listed ticker FINRA publishes (~11,500/day)
Posted same day, ~6pm ET — resolved CIK ↔ ticker
One agent-native JSON envelope with honest as_of
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curl -H "Authorization: Bearer clous_live_sandbox_public_demo" \
  "https://api.clous.ai/v1/short-volume/320193?limit=3"

{
  "data": [
    { "trade_date": "2026-06-15", "short_volume": 5556486.8,
      "short_exempt_volume": 57192, "total_volume": 13557231.7,
      "short_pct": 40.99, "markets": "B,Q,N" }
  ],
  "page": { "limit": 3, "next_cursor": null, "has_more": false },
  "as_of": "2026-06-15", "source": "finra_reg_sho", "warnings": []
}

Pass any cik (Clous resolves CIK ↔ ticker for you). Need fails-to-deliver too? See the FTD API.

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Short data is one of ~60 endpoints.

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Short-sale volume is published by FINRA under Regulation SHO and is in the public domain. Clous is independent of, and not affiliated with, FINRA. Data is context for research, not investment advice.