SHY Short Volume
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY) operates in the Financial Services sector, specifically the Asset Management - Bonds industry, with a market capitalization near $24.85B, listed on NASDAQ, carrying a beta of 0.22 to the broader market. The iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF aims to track the investment performance of an index comprised of U. public since 2002-07-30.
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
- 2026-09-30
- Short Volume
- 1.3M
- Total Volume
- 2.6M
- Short %
- 50.09%
- 30-Day Avg Short %
- 58.62%
Showing 30 days of FINRA short volume data for iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF.
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Frequently asked SHY short volume questions
- What is the daily SHY short volume?
- As of Sep 30, 2026, iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY) short volume is 1.3M shares against 2.6M total reported volume, or 50.09% short-side. Short volume measures shares sold short during the day; it is flow, not inventory.
- How is SHY 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 SHY 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.