Short interest in XAI Octagon Floating Rate & Alternative Income Trust (NYSE:XFLT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 46.27K to 99.11K. This put 0.18% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for XAI Octagon Floating Rate gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of XAI Octagon Floating Rate's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 576.55K 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.