Short interest in First Trust Materials AlphaDEX Fund (ARCA:FXZ) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 6.95K to 9.01K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 27.50K 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.