The clock has stalled — and the bears are reading the silence.
No new bi-monthly short-interest file has landed in the window. FINRA's standing settlement remains 14 August 2026, the last official print, leaving the market to trade on a lagged snapshot while secondary vendors keep the heat on the usual suspects.
The standing print (14 August 2026)
Names still circulating on high-short-interest vendor lists built off the August print include:
- WOLF — Wolfspeed
- ONDS — Ondas Holdings
- SOUN — SoundHound AI
- RXRX — Recursion Pharmaceuticals
- HTZ — Hertz Global
These are vendor-compiled reads, not the primary FINRA file. The next official settlement is expected around month-end.
Why the lag matters
FINRA publishes short interest twice monthly on an aggregate, settlement-date basis. Between prints, the only "live" short data comes from borrow desks and alternative vendors — which can move faster than the official clock but reflect only their own book.
Read the standing print as a map of where disclosed shorts were, not where they are.
Source: FINRA — Short Interest data
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