Top 10 shorted stocks template

The technique of profiting from a price fall is called short-selling, otherwise known as “shorting,” “to go short” or simply “short.” Basically, short-selling is the reverse of how we’re traditionally taught to invest, to buy at the lowest possible price and sell at the highest. When shorting, you aim to jump in at a high and out at a low – with the sequence of events also in reverse, since you sell first and buy back afterwards. Indeed, as confusing as it sounds, this involves selling something that you don’t already own.

Each day we feature the top 10 shorted stocks on the ASX. In the table below you will find the percentage of each stock shorted and the previous day’s percentage. If you’re interested in more information about each company, further down we have 1-year share price charts, plus links to more charting, news and each companies investor centre.

Company	Stock Code	Shorts	% of shorts	Previous %
JB Hi Fi	JBH	15226145	15.45	16.45
Fairfax	FXJ	300565094	12.78	12.99
David Jones	DJS	39722758	7.62	6.51
Billabong	BBG	15856948	6.24	5.97
Perpetual	PPT	2472530	5.54	6.23
iShares Sm. Ords	ISO	208082	5.34	5.34
Elders	ELD	22174748	4.92	3.79
Aristocrat	ALL	25791956	4.81	4.89
Flight Ctre	FLT	4595760	4.61	4.58
Wotif.com	WTF	9749604	4.60	3.39