GAIQ Short Volume
Guinness Atkinson Global Innovators Fund: ETF Class Shares (GAIQ) operates in the Financial Services sector, specifically the Asset Management industry, with a market capitalization near $656,607, listed on AMEX, carrying a beta of 1.03 to the broader market. The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing in a high-conviction, roughly equally-weighted portfolio of approximately 30 innovative companies globally across technology, communications, and business process and management sectors, benchmarked to the MSCI World Index. public since 2026-08-12.
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
- 2026-10-15
- Short Volume
- 8
- Total Volume
- 9
- Short %
- 88.89%
- 30-Day Avg Short %
- 57.46%
Showing 30 days of FINRA short volume data for Guinness Atkinson Global Innovators Fund: ETF Class Shares.
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Frequently asked GAIQ short volume questions
- What is the daily GAIQ short volume?
- As of Oct 15, 2026, Guinness Atkinson Global Innovators Fund: ETF Class Shares (GAIQ) short volume is 8 shares against 9 total reported volume, or 88.89% short-side. Short volume measures shares sold short during the day; it is flow, not inventory.
- How is GAIQ 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 GAIQ 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.