Short interest in First Trust Long/Short Equity (ARCA:FTLS) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 47.11K to 74.86K. 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 177.66K 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.