Short interest in First Trust Long/Short Equity (ARCA:FTLS) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 78.52K to 140.50K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for First Trust Long/Short Equity gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of First Trust Long/Short Equity's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 126.26K shares traded per day, it would take 1.11 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.