ProShares Short Financials (SEF) Short Interest Ratio & Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of ProShares Short Financials shares that have been sold short but have not yet been closed out or covered. As of July 15th, investors have sold 3,200 shares of SEF short. Learn More on ProShares Short Financials' current short interest.

ProShares Short Financials saw a decline in short interest in the month of July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,200 shares, a decline of 20.0% from the previous total of 4,000 shares. Changes in short volume can be used to identify positive and negative investor sentiment. Investors that short sell a stock are betting that its price will decline in the future. An increase in short sale volume suggests bearish (negative) sentiment among investors. A decrease on short sale volume suggests bullish (positive) sentiment.

Here is how the short interest of companies compare to ProShares Short Financials: ETRACS Quarterly Pay 1.5x Leveraged MarketVector BDC Liquid Index ETN (1.17%), Gabelli Financial Services Opportunities ETF (0.37%), ProShares UltraShort Financials (2.01%), Tuttle Capital Daily 2X Inverse Regional Banks ETF (1.74%), Themes Global Systemically Important Banks ETF (4.67%), ETRACS MarketVector Business Development Companies Liquid Index ETN (0.02%), Invesco S&P SmallCap Financials ETF (0.15%), Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF (1.13%), Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (11.30%), First Trust NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index Fund (0.65%),

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: Coinbase Global, Inc. ($5.11 billion), Charter Communications, Inc. ($4.76 billion), Reddit Inc. ($2.84 billion), SoFi Technologies, Inc. ($2.79 billion), Seagate Technology Holdings PLC ($2.79 billion), Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. ($2.67 billion), Rocket Lab Corporation ($2.49 billion), AST SpaceMobile, Inc. ($2.12 billion), Moderna, Inc. ($2.09 billion), and Omnicom Group Inc. ($2.04 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling SEF is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from ProShares Short Financials as its price is falling. SEF shares are trading up $0.39 today. To short a stock, an investor borrows shares, sells them and buys the shares back on the public market later to return it to the lender. Short sellers are betting that a stock will decline in price. If the stock does drop after selling, the short seller buys it back at a lower price and returns it to the lender. The difference between the sell price and the buy price is the trader's profit.

A short squeeze for ProShares Short Financials occurs when it has a large amount of short interest and its stock appreciates in price. This forces short sellers to cover their short interest positions by buying actual shares of SEF, which in turn drives the price of the stock up even further.

Short interest is typically published by a stock exchange once per month. However, NASDAQ publishes a report for U.S. stocks, including SEF, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is July, 15 2025.