Ovid Therapeutics Inc (OVID) short interest & short volume · 35.9% of float short
Ovid Therapeutics Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
OVID short interest fell 4.6% to 18.1M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (35.9% of float, 12.6 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 52.3% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 65.1% the 20 sessions before, the 66th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 18.1M
- prior 18.9M
- % of float
- 35.9%
- float 50.4M
- Days to cover
- 12.6
- avg vol 1.4M
- Change vs prior report
- -4.6%
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)
- 40.8%
- 347K of 849K
- 20-day average
- 52.3%
- prior 65.1%
- Percentile vs own history
- 66th
- 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: +6.2%
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 · OVID overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 346,541 | 849,377 | 40.8% |
| 2026-10-30 | 552,440 | 1,553,858 | 35.5% |
| 2026-10-29 | 316,187 | 702,694 | 45.0% |
| 2026-10-28 | 332,164 | 656,686 | 50.6% |
| 2026-10-27 | 207,943 | 542,194 | 38.4% |
| 2026-10-26 | 132,576 | 202,280 | 65.5% |
| 2026-10-23 | 451,684 | 633,492 | 71.3% |
| 2026-10-22 | 231,101 | 621,922 | 37.2% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,004,852 | 1,797,535 | 55.9% |
| 2026-10-20 | 488,662 | 2,045,590 | 23.9% |
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OVID short interest FAQ
What is OVID's short interest?
Ovid Therapeutics Inc (OVID) had 18.1M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 35.9% of its 50.4M-share float.
How many days to cover does OVID have?
12.6 days: 18.1M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 1.4M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is OVID short interest rising or falling?
OVID short interest fell (-4.6%) from 18.9M to 18.1M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is OVID a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores OVID 70 out of 100 (high) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 40/40, days to cover 25/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 5/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of OVID daily volume is sold short?
52.3% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 66th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was OVID's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Ovid Therapeutics Inc (OVID) was 346,541 shares, 40.8% of 849,377 total volume.
How many OVID short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Ovid Therapeutics Inc (OVID), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did OVID short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Ovid Therapeutics Inc (OVID) moved from 35.5% on Oct 30, 2026 to 40.8% on Nov 2, 2026, up 5.3 percentage points.
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