AMTD IDEA Group (AMTD) short interest & short volume · 0.4% of float short
AMTD IDEA Group official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
AMTD short interest rose 26188.7% to 873K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (0.4% of float, 1.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 42.4% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 25.9% the 20 sessions before, the 79th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 22, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 873K
- prior 3K
- % of float
- 0.4%
- float 225.7M
- Days to cover
- 1.0
- avg vol 8.1M
- Change vs prior report
- +26188.7%
Days to cover is short interest divided by FINRA's average daily volume for the period: how many average days of trading it would take shorts to buy back.
% of float uses the current float for every report (no float was stored with older reports).
Source: FINRA equity short interest (twice monthly) · Settlement Oct 15, 2026
Daily short volume
Share of each day's volume sold short · FINRA Reg SHO
- Latest (Nov 2)
- 81.7%
- 2K of 3K
- 20-day average
- 42.4%
- prior 25.9%
- Percentile vs own history
- 79th
- 233 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 2, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: +2770.5%
Model, not a forecast: 40 pts short interest % of float (full at 30%), 25 pts days to cover (full at 10), 15 pts rise in short interest since the prior report (full at +50%), 20 pts price gain since the settlement date (full at +25%). Missing inputs score 0.
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Market-wide: most shorted stocks, biggest changes and unusual short volume · AMTD overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 2,476 | 3,029 | 81.7% |
| 2026-10-30 | 649 | 1,715 | 37.8% |
| 2026-10-29 | 233 | 411 | 56.7% |
| 2026-10-28 | 649 | 2,393 | 27.1% |
| 2026-10-27 | 324 | 1,496 | 21.7% |
| 2026-10-26 | 1,265 | 2,185 | 57.9% |
| 2026-10-23 | 1,983 | 2,884 | 68.8% |
| 2026-10-22 | 2,559 | 4,731 | 54.1% |
| 2026-10-21 | 3,582 | 5,444 | 65.8% |
| 2026-10-20 | 2,494 | 6,591 | 37.8% |
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AMTD short interest FAQ
What is AMTD's short interest?
AMTD IDEA Group (AMTD) had 873K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 0.4% of its 225.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does AMTD have?
1.0 days: 873K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 8.1M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is AMTD short interest rising or falling?
AMTD short interest rose (+26188.7%) from 3K to 873K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is AMTD a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores AMTD 38 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 0.5/40, days to cover 2.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 15/15, price change since settlement date 20/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of AMTD daily volume is sold short?
42.4% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 79th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was AMTD's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for AMTD IDEA Group (AMTD) was 2,476 shares, 81.7% of 3,029 total volume.
How many AMTD short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for AMTD IDEA Group (AMTD), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did AMTD short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for AMTD IDEA Group (AMTD) moved from 37.8% on Oct 30, 2026 to 81.7% on Nov 2, 2026, up 43.9 percentage points.
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