Short interest in First Trust Senior Loan Fund (NASDAQ:FTSL) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 64.19K to 978.92K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 393.63K shares traded per day, it would take 2.49 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.