Short interest in Bancroft Fund Ltd (AMEX:BCV) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 9.74K to 10.03K. This put 0.18% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Bancroft Fund gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Bancroft Fund's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 24.21K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.