Short Sale Information

A reader was asking how to get Spanish market short sales data. Here goes...

1). Go to http://www.bolsamadrid.es/esp/bolsamadrid/publicacion/boletin/boletin.htm. That will bring up this page which gives direct access to the last five days' reports.















2). Click on any date to bring up this screen. Click on 'Operaciones a crédito, préstamo de valores'.















3). Which should bring up the following PDF file. Sometimes they include extraneous stuff. In this case, just scroll down until you find tables entitled 'Comunicaciones de Prestamos de Valores'. The columns list, from left to right the day's: new stock loans, new re-loans, total loans, loan cancellations, loans less cancellations, and accumulated short position for all the companies listed in the left hand column.















4). For dates earlier than the last five sessions, hit the 'Boletines Anteriores' button at the top right of the first screen. This will bring up the following calendar. As far as I can tell, changing the date range in the drop-down list in the top centre of the page will only get results to January, 2009. However, if the reader needs historical data badly enough to spend half his or her life getting it, the manual date entry box at the top right does the trick. Note that prior to April 12, 2007, the reports were presented in a different format. We defy our readers to make heads or tails of those... and do not ask here.















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