The most recent short interest data has been released for the 11/15/2018 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average by "days to cover." There are a number of ways to look at short data, for example the total number of shares short; but one metric that we find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares typically traded. The number of shares short is then compared to the average daily volume, in order to calculate the total number of trading days it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed.
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Caterpillar Inc. , where a total volume of 38,757 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.9 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares).
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 10/31/2018 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel like to sift through this fresh data and order the underlying components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average by "days to cover." There are a number of ways to look at short data, for example the total number of shares short; but one metric that we find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares typically traded. The number of shares short is then compared to the average daily volume, in order to calculate the total number of trading days it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed.
Global stocks gained Monday, with U.S. equity futures pointing to a positive start to the trading week, amid a collection of political and economic risks that. alongside slowing U.S. corporate earnings, cloud the near-term outlook for risk markets ahead of next week's mid-term elections in the United States.
U.S. stock futures are higher on Monday as investor concerns revolve around slowing U.S. corporate earnings; IBM reaches deal to buy Red Hat for $34 billion; Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the tweet he sent in August about taking the electric vehicle company private at $420 a share was 'worth it.'