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Read this first: nobody can show you who is short

A 13F does not disclose short positions. Short sales are exempt from it, so no site can list a fund's shorts, including this one. Two different things are knowable and this page keeps them apart: short interest tells you how heavily a stock is shorted by the whole market and names nobody, and 13F puts tell you which named fund holds put options.

Neither one sees a swap. A fund short through total-return swaps or plain borrow appears in neither dataset, which is why Archegos was invisible until it was not. An empty put list is not evidence that nobody is betting against a name.

Most shorted

By short interest as a percent of float. Above 100% is real rather than an error: borrowed shares get sold and re-lent. Settlement September 15, 2026, so this is positioning as of that date and not today.

Symbol% of float shortShares shortDays to covervs lastPriceToday
QS
QuantumScape Corporation Class A Common Stock
108.4%
97.8M10.5-0%$4.56-7.1%
GRPN
Groupon, Inc.Common Stock
86.7%
13.1M14.3+11%$19.74-7.3%
TTAN
ServiceTitan, Inc. Class A Common Stock
82.4%
10.0M4.3+35%$59.92+3.2%
KITT
Nauticus Robotics, Inc. Common stock
73.3%
908K1.0+48%$1.81-22.0%
HTZ
Hertz Global Holdings, Inc Common Stock
67.4%
115.9M8.5+1%$1.69-2.9%
EOSE
Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. Class A Common Stock
64.2%
120.0M4.1+8%$3.07-3.0%
JAGX
Jaguar Health, Inc.
62.8%
326K1.0+35%$6.02-21.8%
FLNC
Fluence Energy, Inc. Class A Common Stock
56.6%
27.9M5.0+7%$7.50-4.5%
PINS
Pinterest, Inc. Class A Common Stock
50.1%
59.1M4.3+23%$18.41-2.6%
SHOE
Shoe Station Group, Inc. Common Stock
48.8%
8.8M5.4+24%$13.21+1.6%
GCT
GigaCloud Technology Inc Class A Ordinary Shares
44.0%
3.5M6.8-4%$52.62-2.5%
BELFB
Bel Fuse Inc
42.3%
721K5.0-5%$248.07-1.8%
ONDS
Ondas Inc. Common Stock
42.2%
237.1M3.9+5%$7.68+0.5%
METC
Ramaco Resources, Inc. Class A Common Stock
41.7%
13.5M6.0-2%$8.98-0.4%
CHYM
Chime Financial, Inc. Class A Common Stock
40.9%
21.3M2.7-0%$26.69-0.3%
DUOL
Duolingo, Inc. Class A Common Stock
40.8%
6.6M5.0-13%$134.30-6.4%
LEU
Centrus Energy Corp.
40.1%
5.4M7.0-1%$140.37-4.6%
SERV
Serve Robotics Inc. Common Stock
39.7%
32.1M11.4+5%$4.43-0.4%
DERM
Journey Medical Corporation Common Stock
38.6%
2.9M22.5-1%$6.43+4.7%
LENZ
LENZ Therapeutics, Inc. Common Stock
38.3%
10.6M14.6-2%$3.96+1.1%
RH
RH
37.2%
5.0M5.1+3%$122.08-1.7%
NAVI
Navient Corporation
36.9%
12.0M9.4+5%$8.86-2.9%
PCT
PureCycle Technologies, Inc. Common stock
36.8%
56.3M18.0+1%$4.66-7.2%
CAPR
Capricor Therapeutics Inc
36.5%
19.7M5.9-11%$8.71+4.2%
NNE
Nano Nuclear Energy Inc. Common Stock
35.5%
15.5M9.8+3%$16.16-4.9%

Being added to

Short interest rising fastest since the prior settlement, among names with a real base already on. This is fresh money taking the other side, not an old position sitting there.

Funds holding puts

Named 13F filers with put positions. Quarterly and roughly 45 days behind, so treat it as what a fund held at quarter end rather than what it holds now.

FundAgainstContract sharesExposureQuarter
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putMU19.3M$22.25B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putSNDK5.2M$11.72B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putTSLA22.8M$9.59B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putAMD16.1M$9.36B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putNVDA45.9M$9.18B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putMSFT17.0M$6.33B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putAAPL21.6M$6.24B2026-06-30
Millennium Management (Englander)putNVDA25.5M$5.10B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putMETA9.0M$5.08B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putTSM9.7M$4.65B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putGOOG12.6M$4.51B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putINTC31.2M$4.35B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putAMZN15.6M$3.73B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putWDC5.8M$3.69B2026-06-30
Millennium Management (Englander)putMU2.8M$3.26B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putGOOG8.7M$3.06B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putSEAGATE TECHNOLOGY HLDNGS PL3.2M$3.05B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putAVGO7.8M$2.96B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putCAT2.7M$2.91B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putASML HLDG NV1.4M$2.86B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putMRVL9.6M$2.85B2026-06-30
Citadel Advisors (Griffin)putELI LILLY & CO2.3M$2.82B2026-06-30
Millennium Management (Englander)putAMD4.7M$2.75B2026-06-30
Millennium Management (Englander)putAAPL9.1M$2.63B2026-06-30
Millennium Management (Englander)putAMZN10.6M$2.54B2026-06-30

How to read these numbers

  • % of float short is the crowding. It says how much of the tradeable supply is already sold short, which is what makes covering move a price.
  • Days to cover is how many normal sessions the short base would need to buy back. A high number means the exit is narrow.
  • Exposure on a put is notional, not money at risk. A $912M put is 5,000,000 shares of exposure; the premium paid is a fraction of that and is never disclosed.
  • A crowded short is not a signal on its own. It says the disagreement is large, not who is right. Names stay heavily shorted for years.
  • Float we cannot corroborate is left blank rather than shown. A stale share count inflates the percentage badly, and a wrong 205% is worse than an honest gap.

Research and commentary, not investment advice.