Short interest in First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII FT Vest U.S. Equity Max Buffer ETF - August (BATS:AUGM) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 9.69K to 12.19K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII FT Vest U.S. Equity Max Buffer ETF - August gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII FT Vest U.S. Equity Max Buffer ETF - August's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 4.53K shares traded per day, it would take 2.69 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.