QIS Short Volume
Simplify Multi-QIS Alternative ETF (QIS) operates in the Financial Services sector, specifically the Asset Management industry, with a market capitalization near $49.4M, listed on AMEX, employing roughly 97 people, carrying a beta of 0.54 to the broader market. The fund is an actively managed ETF that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, primarily through total return swaps, in a diversified portfolio of third-party quantitative investment strategies across equities, interest rates, commodities, and currencies. Led by Andrew Schwartz, public since 2023-07-11.
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
- 2026-07-16
- Short Volume
- 31
- Total Volume
- 34
- Short %
- 91.18%
- 30-Day Avg Short %
- 46.02%
Showing 30 days of FINRA short volume data for Simplify Multi-QIS Alternative ETF.
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Frequently asked QIS short volume questions
- What is the daily QIS short volume?
- As of Jul 16, 2026, Simplify Multi-QIS Alternative ETF (QIS) short volume is 31 shares against 34 total reported volume, or 91.18% short-side. Short volume measures shares sold short during the day; it is flow, not inventory.
- How is QIS 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 QIS 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.