Code Snippets
curl "https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=CME&key=API_KEY"import requests
url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=CME&key=API_KEY'
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())
const url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=CME&key=API_KEY';
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
Sample Response
[
{
"trading_symbol": "CME",
"title_of_security": "CME Group Inc. Class A Common",
"market_code": "NNM",
"settlement_date": "2026-09-30",
"shorted_securities": 5526063,
"previous_shorted_securities": 5801564,
"change_in_shorted_securities": -275501,
"percentage_change_in_shorted_securities": -4.75,
"average_daily_volume": 1744545,
"days_to_cover": 3.17,
"is_stock_split": false
},
...
]Query Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| identifier | string | The trading symbol for a security. (e.g., MSFT) |
| offset | integer | (Optional) The initial position of the record subset, which indicates how many records to skip. Defaults to 0. (e.g., 100) |
| format | string | (Optional) The format of the returned data, either JSON or CSV. Defaults to JSON. (e.g., json, csv) |
Endpoint Overview
Short interest represents the number of shares of a company that are currently sold short and have not yet been covered. The short interest ratio, also known as days to cover, represents the number of days it would take for all short-sold shares to be covered or repurchased in the market. Our API provides short interest data for over 15,000 securities. There is a limit of 100 records per API call.
Company Profile
CME GROUP INC.
NASDAQ: CME- Market Cap:$98.90B
- ISIN:US12572Q1058
- Fiscal Year End:12/31
- CEO:Terrence A. Duffy
- Employees:3875
CME Group Inc. (formerly Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, operates exchanges and provides clearing services for trading in financial derivatives such as futures contracts, options, and swaps. Its exchanges include the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and the Commodity Exchange (COMEX). The company also owns 27% of S&P Dow Jones Indices. The company operates the Globex Trading System, an electronic trading platform that allows customers in approximately 150 countries to trade futures and options contracts. The company also operates two platforms for spot market trading: BrokerTec, which facilitates dealer-to-dealer trading in fixed-income products, and EBS, which provides spot trading in foreign exchange markets. CME Clearing serves as a counterparty to every transaction cleared by the company.