Short interest in First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII FT Vest U.S. Equity Max Buffer ETF - September (BATS:SEPM) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 30.33K to 35.17K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII FT Vest U.S. Equity Max Buffer ETF - September gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VIII FT Vest U.S. Equity Max Buffer ETF - September's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 39.47K 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.