WPP - WPP.LSE 

What is Shortics?

Shortics is a financial market platform that provides investors with a different perspective on publicly available data through key market indicators and cutting edge visualization.
At Shortics, we believe that each piece of data can be turned into insight to help investors make more informed investment decisions.

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What does Shortics offer?

Shortics offers short positions analytics on French, UK, Dutch, German, Italian, Swedish and Belgium stock markets, along with market days required to cover positions and benchmark against the sector.
Shortics also offers insider trading analytics for French stocks - what better for an investor than analyzing company's executives positions before making an investment decision?

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How does it work?

A range of cutting edge technologies and techniques have been used to build Shortics, including Python for data manipulation (acquisition,cleansing,mapping etc.), and D3 for data visualization.

Our algorithms use raw data from the French (http://www.amf-france.org/), UK (http://www.fca.org.uk/), Dutch (http://www.afm.nl), German (https://www.bundesanzeiger.de),Italian (http://www.consob.it/), Swedish (http://www.fi.se/) and Belgium (http://www.fsma.be/) market regulators.
Market data used by our algorithms is sourced from our third party provider, http://www.eoddata.com.

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How much does it cost?

Shortics is currently free.

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What's next?

We are always working to improve Shortics and give investors the most complete picture of current public information on a stock.
A few things we are working on a the moment include:
- Shortics 360: An overview of shorts across stock exchanges and, & sectors
- Fund exposure: Calculation of exposure of investment funds at a point in time.

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We'd love to hear your ideas, send us a message!

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What is Shortics 360?

Shortics 360 is currently under development - its aim is to provide an aggregated view of shorting positions by sector, fund and company in order to help investors make the most informed decision.

In the meantime, we would recommend to search for the company you would like to investigate using the search bar below or browse our company list.

What is Insider Trading?

Insider trading is when executives or directors of a company take positions on their company's stock on the market, either by buying or selling stocks, or by exercising their stock options. This gives a good indication of confidence on whether they expect the share price to rise or not.
What better than a company executive's position to know whether to buy or sell a stock?

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