Activ8 Insights

Activ8 Short Report Dashboard

The short side of Wall Street, in full view.

Activist short sellers move markets. Most investors find out after the drop. Activ8 tracks every report in real time, so you're never late to a move that matters.

4,226
Stocks Tracked
1,432
Reports Covered
97
Investigators Watched

Stop watching from the sidelines.

Get instant access to the full platform, completely free.* Gain real-time access to recent short reports, or evaluate the full history of activist short sellers and their performance.

Short Royalty

21% OFF

The data behind the short. Unlock every report we publish, plus the full stock dashboard — screeners, financials, and the data you need to make informed decisions, all in one place.

$99$78/month

$235/quarter • Save 21% · Cancel any time · 30-Day Free Trial

  • Browse all posts and short reports on the site
  • Save posts to a reading list
  • End-of-day (EOD) stock prices only
  • Monthly Report Summaries
  • Full dashboard access
  • Real-time stock prices on for recent reports
  • Stock diagnostic scoring (Business Model, Balance Sheet, Governance)
  • Ability-to-Borrow crowd data
  • Watchlist with live price updates
  • Priority email support
  • Cheaper Price, Same Dashboard
  • Early access to every new feature
  • Early access to new data elements
  • Rate locked for life

API Access – Standard

  • Standard email support
  • 50 calls/min · 1k calls/mo

Founder's Edition

50% OFF

We're launching Activ8 Insights and we want the right people in the room from day one. You get two full years of Premium access at a discount, plus perks that will never be offered again.

$1,199/one-time

~$50/mo • Save 50%

  • Browse all posts and short reports on the site
  • Save posts to a reading list
  • End-of-day (EOD) stock prices only
  • Monthly Report Summaries
  • Full dashboard access
  • Real-time stock prices on for recent reports
  • Stock diagnostic scoring (Business Model, Balance Sheet, Governance)
  • Ability-to-Borrow crowd data
  • Watchlist with live price updates
  • Priority email support
  • Cheaper Price, Same Dashboard
  • Early access to every new feature
  • Early access to new data elements
  • Rate locked for life

API Access – High Volume

  • Priority email support
  • 250 calls/min · 5k calls/mo

*30-day free trial. Credit card required.

For Institutions

Activ8 Enterprise

For funds, banks, and desks that need API access to the data. Complete data access, including proprietary scoring, and options for commercial licensing.

Full historical corpus (20+ years)
Bulk & batch export
Proprietary success scoring
Easy to use REST API endpoints
Commercial licensing
99% SLA & uptime guarantee
Per-seat / per-entity licensing
Premium support & account management

Activ8 Alert System

Stop monitoring. Start trading.

Following activist short sellers used to mean refreshing Twitter, skimming newsletters, and hoping you caught something before it moved. Activ8 replaces all of that. Get alerted the moment a report drops, with full report impact data, so you can make your move while the window is still open.

Not just for short sellers. Built for every investor with skin in the game.

Short sellers see things most investors miss. Activ8 brings that intelligence to anyone willing to look at the full picture.

Due Diligence Investors

Short sellers spend months investigating companies you already own. Their findings are public. Most investors never read them. Activ8 puts every report, every allegation, and every verified track record in one place, so you always know what the other side of your trade is seeing.

Short Strategy Traders

Know which Investigators actually move markets and which don't. Track win rates, sector patterns, and timing tendencies across 81 ranked Investigators, and time your positions with confidence.

Buy-the-Dip Traders

Not every short report is right. When a report drops from an Investigator with a weak track record, a thin thesis, or a history of missing on that sector, that’s information too. Identify the overreactions and buy the recovery.

Squeeze Hunters

When a heavily-shorted stock gets a new report on top of existing pressure, conditions shift fast. Track report stacking, sector clustering, and short pressure signals to spot where risk is concentrating before the move happens.

Rank them by results. Not reputation.

Every Investigator ranked by what actually matters: verified stock impact across 1D, 5D, 1M, and 1Y windows. Deep profile pages show the full picture — campaign history, sector patterns, and how their timing holds up over time.

Win Rate Rankings

See who consistently moves markets and who just publishes noise.

Impact Scatter Plot

One view that separates high-conviction specialists from high-volume noise makers.

Full Campaign History

Every report, every price reaction, every outcome. The track record doesn't lie.

Sector Patterns

Know where each Investigator hits hardest before their next report drops.

Deep Stock Analysis

Don't just see the target. Understand the thesis.

Short reports allege. The data confirms or contradicts. Every stock page runs independent analytics across three categories — business model, balance sheet, and governance — each scored against sector peers. Updated daily, so you always have an objective baseline sitting underneath whatever an Investigator is claiming.

Activ8 dashboard showing a stock scored across business model, balance sheet and governance metrics

Short King Mode

Green means down. Red means up.

Short King Mode flips the color logic so the dashboard speaks the language of traders who profit when stock prices fall.

Activ8 price chart with inverted colour logic, gains shown in red and declines in green

Personalized Watchlist

The return that matters is the one from your entry point.

Most return data is measured from the report date. That's useful, but it's not your return. Activ8 lets you set your own baseline — the day you added a stock, the day a report dropped, or any date relevant to your position. Everything you follow is tracked from the moment that matters to you, with live price changes updating against that anchor.

Activ8 dashboard overview listing tracked stocks with returns measured from a chosen baseline