Patent ID: 7567935

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for presenting short-sale trade information associated with at least one of a plurality of securities, comprising the steps of: receiving into a computer storage digital data comprising said short-sale trade information from at least one source, wherein said short-sale trade information includes amounts of short interest in each of said at least one of said plurality of securities; filtering said short-sale information with a processor operatively connected to the computer storage; wherein said filtering includes retrieving short-sale trade information associated with at least one of said plurality of securities from said computer storage; determining, for each of said at least one of said plurality of securities, the number of unique entities to which said retrieved short-sale trade information is attributable; and determining, for each of said at least one of said plurality of securities, the amount of said retrieved short-sale trade information that is attributable to a single entity; and forwarding for presentation said short-sale trade information associated with any one or more of said plurality of securities if, for such security, at least one of: said short-sale information is attributable to more than a minimum number of unique entities, and no amount of said of said short-sale information attributable to a single entity is within a predetermined threshold amount; and presenting said filtered short-sale information.