Re:  access to daily data on shorts interest, viewing special term orders (e.g. stop losses), out-of-the-money bid/asks:  I was offered a package of full access by Etrade, and if I recall Questrade as well.

One of the problems is that you have to stack their offerings to see shorts on the Venture, so the costs mount.

You have to order their professional-level Level, then add the Venture stuff on top.

One key thing is to look at the brokerages' offereing to professionals, which is on a different page from what they offer retail.

Here is a sample of the top level retail side from Etrade

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You have to add the Venture fees on top of that.

I have their Professionals page cached somewhere but can't find it now.  Just as quick to phone them.

Would you consider spending a few hundred $ a month on this?  I thought about it, but decided in the end that I couldn't keep up with all the data I've got anyways.  I have a mountain of Claimaps to go through, for example.

What think you?