# Short Interest Alerts: New Settlement Period Monitor

**Use case:** 

Set up short interest alerts for COIN, HOOD, and MSTR that fire only when FINRA publishes a new settlement period. Monitor mode remembers the last period collected and returns nothing until fresh data appears, so a schedule gives you a clean feed with no duplicates. Send each update to Slack, Zapier, or Google Sheets to track crowding twice a month.

## Input

```json
{
  "symbols": [
    "COIN",
    "HOOD",
    "MSTR"
  ],
  "market": "exchange",
  "latestOnly": true,
  "monitorMode": true,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "symbol": {
    "label": "Ticker",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "issueName": {
    "label": "Security",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "market": {
    "label": "Market",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "settlementDate": {
    "label": "Settlement",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "shortInterest": {
    "label": "Short interest",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "shortInterestChangePercent": {
    "label": "Change %",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "daysToCover": {
    "label": "Days to cover",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "averageDailyVolume": {
    "label": "Avg daily volume",
    "format": "number"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [US Short Interest Scraper: NYSE, Nasdaq and OTC via FINRA Data](https://apify.com/getascraper/short-interest-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/getascraper/short-interest-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/getascraper/short-interest-scraper.md

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).