QID Short Volume
ProShares - UltraShort QQQ (QID) operates in the Financial Services sector, specifically the Asset Management - Leveraged industry, with a market capitalization near $209.9M, listed on AMEX, carrying a beta of -2.34 to the broader market. The ProShares UltraShort QQQ aims to deliver daily investment results, gross of all fees and expenses, that are two times the opposite of the Nasdaq-100 Index's daily performance. public since 2006-07-13.
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
- 8.6M
- Total Volume
- 13.4M
- Short %
- 64.21%
- 30-Day Avg Short %
- 51.26%
Showing 30 days of FINRA short volume data for ProShares - UltraShort QQQ.
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Frequently asked QID short volume questions
- What is the daily QID short volume?
- As of Aug 14, 2026, ProShares - UltraShort QQQ (QID) short volume is 8.6M shares against 13.4M total reported volume, or 64.21% short-side. Short volume measures shares sold short during the day; it is flow, not inventory.
- How is QID 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 QID 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.