FINRA Alert! Short Interest โ What It Is, What It Is Not. In post, FINRA calls out how some websites might be redistributing the Short Sale Volume Daily File and refer to the data as โshort interest,โ incorrectly.
Source: https://www.finra.org/investors/insights/short-interest
What Is Short Interest?
To understand what short interest is, we should first talk about short sales. Put simply, a short sale involves the sale of a stock an investor does not own. When an investor engages in short selling, two things