TME (TME) short interest & short volume · 30.5M shares short
TME official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
TME short interest fell 2.1% to 30.5M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (5.7 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 66.0% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 60.6% the 20 sessions before, the 99th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 30.5M
- prior 31.2M
- % of float
- —
- no float on file
- Days to cover
- 5.7
- avg vol 5.4M
- Change vs prior report
- -2.1%
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.
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)
- 76.2%
- 3.5M of 4.6M
- 20-day average
- 66.0%
- prior 60.6%
- Percentile vs own history
- 99th
- 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: +4.5%
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 · TME overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 3,503,897 | 4,598,958 | 76.2% |
| 2026-10-30 | 817,399 | 1,422,098 | 57.5% |
| 2026-10-29 | 646,650 | 1,203,939 | 53.7% |
| 2026-10-28 | 2,205,632 | 3,452,614 | 63.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 1,051,079 | 1,349,889 | 77.9% |
| 2026-10-26 | 982,798 | 1,619,254 | 60.7% |
| 2026-10-23 | 568,818 | 771,110 | 73.8% |
| 2026-10-22 | 1,269,033 | 2,043,910 | 62.1% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,606,359 | 2,115,391 | 75.9% |
| 2026-10-20 | 732,283 | 1,270,120 | 57.6% |
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TME on Lician stock screens
TME is rated Buy (4.34 of 5) and passes 1 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
TME short interest FAQ
What is TME's short interest?
TME had 30.5M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report.
How many days to cover does TME have?
5.7 days: 30.5M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 5.4M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is TME short interest rising or falling?
TME short interest fell (-2.1%) from 31.2M to 30.5M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is TME a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores TME 18 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: days to cover 14.1/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 3.6/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of TME daily volume is sold short?
66.0% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 99th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was TME's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for TME was 3,503,897 shares, 76.2% of 4,598,958 total volume.
How many TME short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for TME, from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did TME short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for TME moved from 57.5% on Oct 30, 2026 to 76.2% on Nov 2, 2026, up 18.7 percentage points.
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