About ShortingDash

Why this exists ?

SLBM is one of the least understood but most important parts of market structure. It enables lenders to earn income from idle holdings and allows borrowers to obtain shares for short selling, hedging, settlement needs, and other market use cases. Despite its importance, the data is often fragmented, difficult to read, and spread across exchange files that are not easy to interpret without context. That creates friction for anyone trying to monitor the market efficiently. Shorting Dash exists to remove that friction by making the underlying SLBM data easier to explore, compare, and understand.

What SLBM is ?

Securities Lending and Borrowing Mechanism, or SLBM, is a system in which securities can be temporarily lent by one participant and borrowed by another for a fixed tenure and fee. The lender keeps economic ownership of the shares, while the borrower receives the shares for a defined use case such as short selling, arbitrage, or delivery settlement. At its core, SLBM adds flexibility to the market. It helps improve liquidity, supports price discovery, and creates a mechanism for investors to earn income from shares that would otherwise sit idle in a portfolio.

What I built ?

Shorting Dash currently focuses on Indian SLBM data and turns it into a cleaner, faster market dashboard. It surfaces the main signals that matter most:
• Fixed open interest.
• Recallable open interest.
• Combined totals.
• Eligibility flags.
• Profiler status.
• Market structure and risk context.