ISPY Short Volume
ProShares - S&P 500 High Income ETF (ISPY) operates in the Financial Services sector, specifically the Asset Management - Income industry, with a market capitalization near $1.28B, listed on CBOE, carrying a beta of 0.86 to the broader market. The fund's investment approach involves strategically deploying capital into a collection of financial instruments that ProShare Advisors believes will collectively replicate the performance of the underlying benchmark. public since 2023-12-20.
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
- 2026-08-14
- Short Volume
- 5.2K
- Total Volume
- 28.5K
- Short %
- 18.28%
- 30-Day Avg Short %
- 23.33%
Showing 30 days of FINRA short volume data for ProShares - S&P 500 High Income ETF.
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Frequently asked ISPY short volume questions
- What is the daily ISPY short volume?
- As of Aug 14, 2026, ProShares - S&P 500 High Income ETF (ISPY) short volume is 5.2K shares against 28.5K total reported volume, or 18.28% short-side. Short volume measures shares sold short during the day; it is flow, not inventory.
- How is ISPY 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 ISPY 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.