Short interest in First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II (NYSE:FCT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 136.70K to 145.30K. This put 0.76% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for First Trust Senior gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of First Trust Senior's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 94.57K shares traded per day, it would take 1.54 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.