Most Shorted Stocks Scanner
The names with the highest short interest as a percent of float, sorted live. Tapeboard pulls short interest from FINRA via Schwab, ranks the universe by SI%, and surfaces the names where institutional short positioning is most crowded. Crowded shorts are not automatic squeeze plays, but every short squeeze starts here.
Triggers for most shorted
- Short interest as % of float >= 5% (filters the long tail of low-conviction shorts)
- Days to cover (short interest / average daily volume) as a tie-breaker within a tied SI bucket
- FINRA bi-monthly short interest reporting (most recent settlement-date snapshot)
- Live price + change % so you can see which crowded shorts are running and which are bleeding
- Optional: combine with the borrow-fee leaderboard for the canonical squeeze-candidate intersection
Top tickers right now
// As of 2026-08-06 20:58 UTC · cached 30s · delayed 15 min
| SYMBOL | PRICE | %CHG | VOL | RVOL | SECTOR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLSK | $13.06 | -3.26% | 22.6M | 1.0x | |
| MARA | $10.73 | -4.58% | 36.0M | 0.8x | |
| NBIS | $194.19 | -11.32% | 26.3M | 1.0x | |
| PATH | $14.04 | +1.59% | 73.4M | 1.2x | |
| IOVA | $6.14 | +41.47% | 73.2M | 5.7x | |
| TE | $5.64 | +3.11% | 60.0M | 1.3x | |
| PLUG | $2.08 | -1.00% | 50.2M | 1.0x | |
| HIVE | $2.75 | -3.16% | 14.9M | 1.0x | |
| MP | $48.34 | +0.91% | 7.6M | 1.1x | |
| OPEN | $3.44 | -8.64% | 46.3M | 0.9x | |
| TTD | $13.80 | -27.22% | 78.7M | 4.5x | |
| BTBT | $1.37 | -0.83% | 15.5M | 0.6x | |
| RKT | $12.35 | -10.91% | 39.0M | 1.4x | |
| IQ | $1.28 | -0.81% | 3.9M | 0.6x | |
| TEAM | $145.25 | +28.18% | 7.1M | 1.6x | |
| DKNG | $21.79 | +0.14% | 25.0M | 2.2x | |
| NIO | $4.60 | -1.08% | 23.7M | 1.0x | |
| TIGR | $4.74 | -1.42% | 906.4K | 0.5x | |
| AMC | $2.56 | -4.10% | 18.4M | 0.4x | |
| NKE | $41.99 | -1.08% | 15.9M | 0.8x |
Editorial notes
When this preset earns its keep
Squeeze setup screening + risk awareness. A name with 30%+ SI and 8+ days-to-cover is a squeeze candidate when the tape turns; the same name on the long side is a position you do not want to be early on. This scanner answers 'who is the most crowded short right now' so you can decide whether to fade the squeeze, ride it, or stay out. Pair with the highest-borrow-fee page to find names where the squeeze cost is asymmetric.
How Tapeboard runs this scanner
- Streaming real-time, rows update as prints land. No 10-second refresh delay.
- Click-through to full research: chart + 50 indicators, L2 book, time & sales, SEC filings, insider transactions, and news recency on every row.
- Paper-trading simulator (Terminal tier), size the setup against L2-walked fills before risking capital.
- AI research briefings summarize news and filings behind a ticker without opening six tabs.
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Short interest as a percent of float is the cleanest single number for "how crowded is the bear case on this name." It does not predict squeezes by itself. Most names with high short interest stay shorted for a reason: deteriorating fundamentals, accounting concerns, broken charts, dilution catalogs, regulatory risk. The shorts are usually right. But the same crowding that makes the bear thesis work is the structural raw material for every short squeeze on record. The most-shorted scanner is where that universe is observed live.
What we filter on. Short interest as a percent of float at or above 5% as the inclusion floor. Days to cover, computed as short interest divided by average daily volume, used as a tie-breaker within a tied SI bucket. Live price plus session change percent so a crowded short already running gets surfaced alongside one that is not. The data source is FINRA bi-monthly short interest reporting, exposed through Schwab fundamentals on the most recent settlement-date snapshot.
Why the cutoffs. The 5% floor strips the long tail of low-conviction shorts and routine hedging. Below 5% the short side is generally not crowded enough to matter for squeeze mechanics. Above 20% is where the structural setup gets interesting: half of the recent meme-stock squeezes that lasted more than a session started with names in the 25 to 50 percent SI band. Above 50% you are looking at the rare structurally-broken-cohort names where short positioning has gone into uncoverable territory.
What the signals mean together. SI percent and days to cover are the supply side of the squeeze equation. They tell you how many shorts must buy to close out and how long, in average-volume days, the cover takes. They do not tell you whether the demand side is going to show up. That is what the unusual-volume, top-gainers, and gap-and-go scanners are for. The crowded short becomes a squeeze candidate only when the tape turns. Until then it is a setup waiting for a trigger, and most setups never trigger.
How to use this scanner. Two distinct workflows. As a long-side trader, screen here for crowded shorts with rising volume and a recent positive catalyst, then layer the borrow-fee leaderboard to see which names also have asymmetric short-cost. As a long-only investor, screen here as a risk filter: names with 30 percent SI plus deteriorating fundamentals are positions you do not want to be early on. Combine with the highest-borrow-fee page for the canonical squeeze-candidate intersection.
// Marcus Reilly, Editor.