Short interest // FINRA, biweekly, dated

LOCT short interest

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1,100shares sold short

No percentage is shown because no filed share count exists for LOCT at SEC XBRL. A percentage of an unknown denominator is not a smaller version of the right answer.

As of the 2026-10-15 settlement, which is 26 days ago. FINRA publishes twice a month on the seventh business day after settlement, so this cycle was published around 2026-10-26 and the next is expected around 2026-11-10. No free source anywhere has anything fresher, including sites that display this number next to a live price.

Shares sold short1,100
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceFINRA consolidated short interest
FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity
As of2026-10-15 settlement
HowFile shrt20261015.csv in FINRA's catalog (posted ~7 business days after settlement).
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Prior settlement2,438
Change-54.9%
Days to coverShares short divided by average daily volume. FINRA publishes 1.00 here because it does not report below 1.00.0.24
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceFINRA consolidated short interest
FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity ÷ averageDailyVolumeQuantity
As of2026-10-15 settlement
HowComputed from FINRA’s two published operands. FINRA’s own daysToCoverQuantity field floors at 1.00 and is not used.
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FINRA prints 1.00 (floored)
Average daily volume (FINRA, the days-to-cover denominator)4,561
ExchangeCboe BZX
Reg SHO threshold listPersistent settlement failures under Reg SHO Rule 203. A delivery-failure list, not a “naked shorting” list.no free publisher covers this venue
Short interest, % of shares outstandingPercent of shares outstanding. Not percent of float, and the two are not the same number.no filed share count held

We do not hold a filing-derived share count for LOCT, so the percentage is not computed. A percentage of an unknown denominator is not a smaller version of the right answer, so nothing is shown in its place.

Short interest history

73 settlements on record, oldest 2023-10-13. Biweekly points, from FINRA’s own archive.

Dashed line at the 15 September 2026 settlement: FINRA began quoting every field of its short interest file. What it did to this history, and what we did

SettlementShares shortChange% of shares outDays to coverClose, USDValue short, USD
2026-10-151,100-54.9%no share count within 200 days0.2423.8926,282
2026-09-302,438+38.4%no share count within 200 days2.4923.8158,049
2026-09-151,761+73.2%no share count within 200 days1.0823.8942,061
2026-08-311,017+95.6%no share count within 200 days0.6823.8524,255
2026-08-14520-60.9%no share count within 200 days0.3923.9212,438
2026-07-311,330+355.5%no share count within 200 days0.6323.8831,754
2026-07-15292+160.7%no share count within 200 days0.2923.936,988
2026-06-30112+0.0%no share count within 200 days0.3523.882,675
2026-06-15112-95.8%no share count within 200 days0.0123.952,682
2026-05-292,637-4.6%no share count within 200 days0.8023.9163,051
2026-05-152,764+3.4%no share count within 200 days0.5423.9366,143
2026-04-302,673-16.0%no share count within 200 days0.7123.8663,791
Show the other 61 settlements, back to 2023-10-13
SettlementShares shortChange% of shares outDays to coverClose, USDValue short, USD
2026-04-153,183+4.4%no share count within 200 days1.0123.8976,026
2026-03-313,048-46.4%no share count within 200 days0.6023.5671,811
2026-03-135,686+1854.0%no share count within 200 days5.7423.66134,510
2026-02-27291-83.4%no share count within 200 days0.0723.776,919
2026-02-131,758+35.8%no share count within 200 days0.6523.8341,895
2026-01-301,295+25.9%no share count within 200 days0.4323.8530,886
2026-01-151,029-8.0%no share count within 200 days0.1923.9024,593
2025-12-311,119-36.3%no share count within 200 days0.5623.8726,711
2025-12-151,757+4.2%no share count within 200 days0.4123.8841,957
2025-11-281,686+32.4%no share count within 200 days0.3923.8140,139
2025-11-141,273-30.7%no share count within 200 days0.3023.7830,272
2025-10-311,837-63.3%no share count within 200 days0.3423.7943,708
2025-10-155,008-25.3%no share count within 200 days0.5923.78119,080
2025-09-306,708+6.4%no share count within 200 days1.1423.81159,717
2025-09-156,305-51.1%no share count within 200 days2.5323.87150,500
2025-08-2912,905-2.8%no share count within 200 days8.1423.82307,397
2025-08-1513,274+7.5%no share count within 200 days9.6723.88316,983
2025-07-3112,348-1.9%no share count within 200 days21.8523.83294,253
2025-07-1512,591+2.3%no share count within 200 days30.3423.88300,673
2025-06-3012,306-25.3%no share count within 200 days8.7323.83293,252
2025-06-1316,466+46.7%no share count within 200 days12.8523.80391,891
2025-05-3011,223-6.0%no share count within 200 days0.3723.76266,650
2025-05-1511,934+10.0%no share count within 200 days10.2123.82284,268
2025-04-3010,846-0.1%no share count within 200 days15.1123.54255,333
2025-04-1510,853-61.9%no share count within 200 days4.5123.42254,181
2025-03-3128,492+89.3%no share count within 200 days9.4323.67674,366
2025-03-1415,055-14.3%no share count within 200 days2.0723.72357,067
2025-02-2817,561-8.9%no share count within 200 days17.4623.76417,249
2025-02-1419,269+1.9%no share count within 200 days8.1323.90460,529
2025-01-3118,907+68.5%no share count within 200 days5.3023.84450,743
2025-01-1511,218-20.3%no share count within 200 days2.6423.86267,661
2024-12-3114,080+47.5%no share count within 200 days12.3523.80335,174
2024-12-139,544-28.5%no share count within 200 days4.3223.89228,006
2024-11-2913,343+31.6%no share count within 200 days4.1323.87318,487
2024-11-1510,137+137.8%no share count within 200 days4.2523.83241,565
2024-10-314,262-56.2%no share count within 200 days1.3123.66100,819
2024-10-159,735+47.2%no share count within 200 days1.9223.81231,837
2024-09-306,612-15.0%no share count within 200 days6.2423.80157,366
2024-09-137,783+27.2%no share count within 200 days4.4523.87185,780
2024-08-306,117+34.0%no share count within 200 days7.3223.82145,707
2024-08-154,564+47.8%no share count within 200 days5.8723.91109,125
2024-07-313,089+75.0%no share count within 200 days2.1023.8673,704
2024-07-151,765+21.3%no share count within 200 days1.2423.9442,254
2024-06-281,455+9.0%no share count within 200 days1.30before stored barsno close to value it
2024-06-141,335+196.7%no share count within 200 days1.00before stored barsno close to value it
2024-05-31450+221.4%no share count within 200 days0.43before stored barsno close to value it
2024-05-15140-98.6%no share count within 200 days0.01before stored barsno close to value it
2024-04-309,701-24.9%no share count within 200 days6.97before stored barsno close to value it
2024-04-1512,916-1.8%no share count within 200 days4.55before stored barsno close to value it
2024-03-2813,148+14.8%no share count within 200 days4.11before stored barsno close to value it
2024-03-1511,450-30.8%no share count within 200 days4.60before stored barsno close to value it
2024-02-2916,557+88.8%no share count within 200 days1.49before stored barsno close to value it
2024-02-158,768+103.2%no share count within 200 days3.76before stored barsno close to value it
2024-01-314,314-37.0%no share count within 200 days0.96before stored barsno close to value it
2024-01-126,846-58.6%no share count within 200 days0.84before stored barsno close to value it
2023-12-2916,546-9.2%no share count within 200 days2.22before stored barsno close to value it
2023-12-1518,229+20.0%no share count within 200 days2.53before stored barsno close to value it
2023-11-3015,195+6.0%no share count within 200 days0.98before stored barsno close to value it
2023-11-1514,341-31.4%no share count within 200 days0.76before stored barsno close to value it
2023-10-3120,920+406.5%no share count within 200 days1.86before stored barsno close to value it
2023-10-134,130no prior settlementno share count within 200 days0.20before stored barsno close to value it

Change is against the settlement before it, and is left out where one is missing from the archive. Percent of shares outstanding divides by the filed share count dated nearest each settlement, within 200 days, so it moves when the share count does; it is not percent of float. Close and value short (shares short times that day’s close, both as traded) come from our stored daily bars, which begin 2024-07-01; earlier settlements show none rather than a figure from another source. Nothing here is split-adjusted, so a split appears as the step it was.

Different measurement // daily, and not a position

Daily short volume

This is not the number above. Short interest is the position still held short, reported twice a month. Short volume is the share of a single day’s trading that was marked as a sell-short order, published daily. Most of it is market makers hedging and closing within the same session, so a stock printing a high figure here is not that percentage sold short.

Latest session (2026-11-09)
97.2%
Average, last 10 sessions
71.3%
2026-11-0997.2%
2026-11-0694.6%
2026-11-0599.5%
2026-11-0497.9%
2026-11-0348.8%
2026-11-0232.3%
2026-10-3099.5%
2026-10-2948.1%
2026-10-2835.5%
2026-10-2759.1%

FINRA Reg SHO consolidated daily file. Sessions with no row for LOCT are omitted rather than shown as zero.

Price context // daily bars, not short data

Where the price sits

Session of 2026-11-09, from 276 sessions of daily bars. These are price figures, not short figures, and they update daily rather than twice a month.

Close$23.80
Volume, latest session790
Volume vs averageAgainst its own 50-session average of 2,750, same series on both sides0.29x
% from 52-week high ($24.05)-1.0%
% from 52-week low ($23.48)+1.4%
52-week performance-0.2%
% from 50-day average ($23.87)-0.3%
% from 200-day average ($23.87)-0.3%
RSI, 14-dayWilder’s construction, so it matches what charting platforms print47.2

Why there is no “% of float” here

Percent of float is the number the paid trackers lead with, and it is the one number in this category that cannot be published honestly for free. There is no free float share count: the SEC’s XBRL concept for float does not exist, and the closest one, public float, is measured in dollars and is filed once a year with the annual report. For Apple it currently reads as of March 2025, sixteen months ago.

So a free site showing percent of float is doing one of two things: quietly substituting shares outstanding, which for a heavily insider-held small company is a wildly different number, or republishing a commercial estimate it licensed. We publish the percentage that filed data supports, label it as percent of shares outstanding, and where insider Form 4 filings allow it we publish percent of float as an explicit floor: subtracting only filed direct insider holdings from shares outstanding gives a ceiling on float, so the division gives a number the true percentage can only exceed. What we will not do is print a bare “% of float” built on someone else’s estimate. Where a figure is measured, this site says what it was measured against. Read the methodology.

What days to cover means

Open short interest divided by average daily trading volume: roughly how many full sessions of normal volume it would take for every short position to be bought back. FINRA computes it per security at each settlement and we pass their figure through. This matters more than it sounds, because sites that compute their own pick their own volume window and rarely say which, so the same stock shows materially different values depending on where you look.

High short interest and high days to cover describe fuel, not ignition. They say a crowded position exists; they say nothing about whether it unwinds, and heavily shorted stocks frequently keep falling. Educational information, not investment advice.

FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data. Free on every plan; not for redistribution.

LOCT short interest FAQ

How old is this LOCT short interest figure?

It is the 2026-10-15 settlement, which is 26 days ago. FINRA collects short interest twice a month and publishes on the seventh business day after each settlement date, so this was published around 2026-10-26 and the next cycle is expected around 2026-11-10. There is no fresher short interest available anywhere for free, including from tools that display it next to a live price.

Why does this show percent of shares outstanding rather than percent of float?

Because float share counts are not published by any free source. The SEC XBRL concept for float does not exist, and the nearest one is measured in dollars and comes only from the annual report. Every free site showing a float percentage is republishing a commercial estimate. We publish the percentage we can compute from filed data and label it for what it is, rather than passing shares outstanding off as float.

Where does days to cover come from?

Shares short divided by average daily volume, using FINRA’s own two published figures. We do not use FINRA’s own days-to-cover field, because it is floored at 1.00: across the current file, 7,869 securities, over a third of the market, are published at exactly 1.00 and nearly all of them are genuinely below it. One stock with a true ratio of 0.03 is published as 1.00. Sites that instead invent their own average-volume window produce a different problem, which is why the operands here are both FINRA’s.

Is high short interest a buy signal?

No. High short interest is frequently the market pricing real problems, and many heavily shorted stocks keep falling. This page measures positioning. It makes no recommendation.

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