Sweden and Denmark – Aggregate Short Positions API

Unlock deeper insight into the Scandinavian equity markets with our daily short-selling data solutions for Sweden and Denmark. We provide full API access to the datasets as disclosed by Finansinspektionen (Sweden's financial supervisory authority) and the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority respectively, enabling you to closely monitor short positioning across both exchanges. Whether you are an institutional investor, quant fund, risk manager, or research team, our data gives you the transparency you need to understand how short interest evolves across these two major Scandinavian markets.

Both regulators publicly report the aggregate net short position for every listed company that exceeds the mandatory reporting threshold, and we deliver all of this through our API:

Percentage of Aggregate Net Short Positions (reported by Swedish and Dannish regulator)

Our system ingests, normalizes, and quality-checks these values every day as they are published by the respective regulators, ensuring reliability and consistency across the entire dataset.

Clients can access the data via our API, that delivers data in CSV, XML, and JSON file formats. This dataset is part of our broader suite of short-selling intelligence, including EU/UK short disclosure feeds, Saudi Exchange and Australia aggregate short positions data, activist short selling data and analytics, and our retail investors popularity and sentiment datasets.

As a specialized data and analytics company, we help professional investors transform raw regulatory disclosures into actionable insights. If you're looking to incorporate Swedish or Danish short-selling activity into your models, dashboards, or risk engines, we offer the suitable solution.

If you would like a trial API key or a deeper walkthrough of the dataset, we are happy to help. Contact us at info@breakoutpoint.com or by clicking here.

Sample of our API return in JSON format for Denmark (CSV and XML are also available):
{
       "id": 57069,
       "company": "Novo-Nordisk A/S",
       "company_code": "21780",
       "isin": "DK0062498333",
       "date": "20260406",
       "position": "0.48",
       "processed_on": "20260406181114"
}

Sample of our API return in JSON format for Sweden (CSV and XML are also available):
{
       "id": 118440,
       "company": "EMBRACER GROUP AB",
       "company_code": "28693",
       "lei": "549300RFXXKT652HB549",
       "latest_position_date": "20260402",
       "date": "20260406",
       "position": "9.53",
       "processed_on": "20260406211540"
}

APIs "position" field 

This shows how much of the company's total issued shares are currently held as net short positions, as disclosed via Finansinspektionen (Sweden) or the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (Denmark). The sum includes all short positions that exceed 0.1 per cent of the issued share capital. Please note that it is not required to report positions below 0.1 per cent, and such positions are therefore not included in the figure.

Formula (conceptually):

Net Short Shares / Total Issued Share Capital × 100%

Understanding the Three Disclosure Tiers

The EU Short Selling Regulation (EU SSR) — which underpins the disclosure frameworks applied in both Sweden and Denmark — establishes three distinct tiers of transparency based on the size of the net short position. It is important to understand what each tier discloses, and crucially, what it does not.

Why the aggregate matters — bridging the gap between named (with position holder names) and total short interest

Users of named short-position data (positions ≥ 0.5%) will be familiar with tracking which specific funds are short a given stock. However, that named feed only shows part of the picture. A meaningful — and often substantial — share of total short interest sits in the 0.1%–0.5% band: positions large enough to require regulatory reporting, but below the public naming threshold.

The aggregate sum dataset we provide captures all reported short interest — both the publicly named positions above 0.5% and the privately reported positions between 0.1% and 0.5% — rolled into a single company-level figure. This makes it possible to assess the true scale of short positioning in a stock, not just the portion that has crossed 0.5% public disclosure line.

A concrete example: if a stock shows 0.8% in named disclosures but 2.1% in the aggregate figure, approximately 1.3 percentage points of short interest is sitting in positions that are reported to the regulator but never appear in any public named feed. That delta is only visible through the aggregate dataset.

Positions below 0.1% remain entirely outside all regulatory reporting and are therefore not reflected in any publicly available short-selling data — including ours. This is a structural limitation of the regulatory framework itself, not of our data ingestion.

Data Illustration and Practical Insights

Our API enables you to easily identify the most shorted stocks on the Swedish and Danish exchanges by tracking short interest relative to total issued share capital:

Our API enables you to easily track how short-selling interest evolves over time for individual companies:

Our API enables you to easily monitor changes in short interest levels and identify companies with the most rapid movements in short positioning:

Get our API for the Sweden and Denmark Public Disclosures of Aggregate Sum of Net Short Positions.

Contact us at info@breakoutpoint.com or by clicking here.