The most recent short interest data has been released for the 01/12/2018 settlement date, which shows a 663,918 share increase in total short interest for Colfax Corp , to 4,093,061, an increase of 19.36% since 12/29/2017. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded.
Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Colfax Corp , where a total of 4,101 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 410,100 underlying shares. That amounts to about 88.9% of CFX's average daily trading volume over the past month of 461,490 shares.
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Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Colfax Corp , where a total volume of 11,021 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.1 million underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares). That number works out to 185.8% of CFX's average daily trading volume over the past month, of 593,150 shares.