EVNT Short Volume
AltShares Event-Driven ETF (EVNT) operates in the Financial Services sector, specifically the Asset Management industry, with a market capitalization near $6.1M, listed on AMEX, carrying a beta of 0.32 to the broader market. To pursue the fund's investment objective, the adviser employs a "long/short" event-driven strategy, which seeks to profit by investing, long and/or short, in the equity and debt securities of companies whose prices Water Island Capital, LLC (the "adviser") believes are or will be impacted by a publicly announced or anticipated corporate event. public since 2021-09-20.
Short volume measures the number of shares sold short on a given day as reported by FINRA. Tracking short volume relative to total volume helps identify unusual bearish sentiment or short-squeeze potential.
- Latest Date
- 2026-06-01
- Short Volume
- 5.1K
- Total Volume
- 6.1K
- Short %
- 83.94%
- 30-Day Avg Short %
- 38.79%
Showing 30 days of FINRA short volume data for AltShares Event-Driven ETF.
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Frequently asked EVNT short volume questions
- What is the daily EVNT short volume?
- As of Jun 1, 2026, AltShares Event-Driven ETF (EVNT) short volume is 5.1K shares against 6.1K total reported volume, or 83.94% short-side. Short volume measures shares sold short during the day; it is flow, not inventory.
- How is EVNT short volume reported?
- FINRA publishes the Daily Short Sale Volume File for trades reported to FINRA TRFs and the FINRA/Nasdaq ADF on a T+1 basis. The headline figure is the count of shares that printed at the short-sale or short-exempt tick across all reporting venues for the symbol; each exchange separately publishes its own daily short-sale data file.
- What does EVNT short volume tell options traders?
- Daily short-sale flow is one input that helps disambiguate dealer-hedging activity from directional bear flow when the chain shows fresh customer call inventory. It is not a clean MM-only proxy: the headline number mixes directional shorting, options-MM delta-hedging, ETF-creation arbitrage, and convertible-arb hedging. Cross-check against gamma-exposure and OI changes for a cleaner read.