Short interest % and Short interest ratio labels?

[whoof]

Anyway to throw these on the chart as a label? I know the data is delayed but it's still good to have. I have an api endpoint I could call to get it if this is supported by thinkscript.

 

[Slippage]

Anyway to throw these on the chart as a label? I know the data is delayed but it's still good to have. I have an api endpoint I could call to get it if this is supported by thinkscript.

Unfortunately, TOS doesn't provide this data and there's no way to call out to an external API. When this was still relevant to me I solved it with a semi-manual process which could be automated a bit further.

These numbers are old now and just for demonstration of a way to solve this.

DefineGlobalColor("LabelColor", Color.YELLOW);
AddLabel(GetSymbol() == "MREO", "Short Float: 57.51%", GlobalColor("LabelColor"));
AddLabel(GetSymbol() == "KOSS", "Short Float: 53.50%", GlobalColor("LabelColor"));

I'd copy/paste 20 lines at a time from finviz (without paid account where you can export) into a code editor that allows making the same change on multiple lines at the same time. I used Visual Studio Code. CTRL-ALT-Shift and cursor at the same time (if I remember the combo correctly) puts you into a multiline edit mode. Everything you type happens on all of the selected lines. So I'd take the finviz data I pasted and turn it into 100 lines like those above for the top 100 highest short interest stocks.

I figured eventually I'd write javascript to run on my computer and get data from finviz and output a file that has the code above so I don't have to do any manual editing. I stopped trading those stocks so I never got around to it.

 

[whoof]

Unfortunately, TOS doesn't provide this data and there's no way to call out to an external API. When this was still relevant to me I solved it with a semi-manual process which could be automated a bit further.

These numbers are old now and just for demonstration of a way to solve this.

DefineGlobalColor("LabelColor", Color.YELLOW);
AddLabel(GetSymbol() == "MREO", "Short Float: 57.51%", GlobalColor("LabelColor"));
AddLabel(GetSymbol() == "KOSS", "Short Float: 53.50%", GlobalColor("LabelColor"));

I'd copy/paste 20 lines at a time from finviz (without paid account where you can export) into a code editor that allows making the same change on multiple lines at the same time. I used Visual Studio Code. CTRL-ALT-Shift and cursor at the same time (if I remember the combo correctly) puts you into a multiline edit mode. Everything you type happens on all of the selected lines. So I'd take the finviz data I pasted and turn it into 100 lines like those above for the top 100 highest short interest stocks.

I figured eventually I'd write javascript to run on my computer and get data from finviz and output a file that has the code above so I don't have to do any manual editing. I stopped trading those stocks so I never got around to it.

If you output a generated file, is there any way to have TOS automatically pick it up and changes? Or do you have to re-import each time?

 

[rad14733]

If you output a generated file, is there any way to have TOS automatically pick it up and changes? Or do you have to re-import each time?

@whoof You need to manually import each time...

 

[Slippage]

It's manual, as rad indicated. Just copy/paste to replace the previous code.

Short interest data is only updated twice a month so doing it manually isn't too terrible.
https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=ShortIntPubSch

 

[Buckbull]

What is the best way to monitor a stock's short interest to see if it's rising or falling?

 

[MerryDay]

What is the best way to monitor a stock's short interest to see if it's rising or falling?

The ToS data feeds do not provide this information.