# Stock Short Selling & Short Interest Data

> Short selling data: net short positions, short sellers and short interest for EU and US stocks.

- name: io.github.dell-mic/shortselling-vanilla
- version: 1.0.1
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 80/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 79/100 (good)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/io.github.dell-mic%2Fshortselling-vanilla
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/io.github.dell-mic%2Fshortselling-vanilla/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shortselling-vanilla": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://shortsell.net/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 100
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 45
- drivers: +website +reachable +uptime-100% +updated-9d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 79/100 (good)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-06-18; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 71 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- fail `tools.annotations`: no tool declares readOnlyHint or destructiveHint, so clients cannot tell safe calls from risky ones
- fail `tools.directory_hints`: no tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: search_companies (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_trending_short_positions (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_shortseller_positions (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); …
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 601 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 100 (weight 15)

- pass `stability.changes`: no tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 7, about 601 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: 3359b3b2c57735087f23a576efaef714
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/io.github.dell-mic/shortselling-vanilla.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/io.github.dell-mic/shortselling-vanilla)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

_No tool definition changes recorded._

## Remotes

- https://shortsell.net/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 1)
- https://www.leerverkauf.de/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 1)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (7)

- `get_company_price_history`: Daily closing prices (adjusted) of one company, newest first (company page chart). Pass symbol OR isin.
- `get_company_short_positions`: All published short positions of one company: current positions per holder, historic positions and the statistics timeseries (totalShortPct + holderCount over time). Pass symbol OR isin.
- `get_recently_updated_positions`: Most recently published short position changes (feed page): positionPctChange > 0 means the position was increased, < 0 reduced.
- `get_shortseller_positions`: All current short positions of one short seller (shortseller page), largest position first.
- `get_top_short_positions`: Companies with the currently largest cumulative net short positions (home page top lists): EU = European registers, US = FINRA short interest.
- `get_trending_short_positions`: Companies whose total net short position moved the most over 7 or 28 days (home page trend lists), direction = increase or decrease.
- `search_companies`: Find companies with published short positions by name, ticker symbol or ISIN. Returns up to 5 matches (name, symbol or isin, totalShortPct, website url). Pass the returned symbol or isin to get_company_short_positions.