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BlackRock Science & Technology Term Trust

BSTZ
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SEC CIK
0001768666

No open-market purchases or sales by BlackRock Science & Technology Term Trust insiders were filed in the last 90 days; 153 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $660.7M in total; no superinvestor holds it.

Four kinds of short-selling data, each measuring something different:

  • Short interest: shares sold short and not yet bought back, as of a settlement date. FINRA publishes it twice a month, about eight business days after the settlement date.
  • Daily short volume: shares sold short each day in off-exchange trades reported to FINRA. It counts trades, not open positions, and is published the next day.
  • Fails-to-deliver: shares not delivered by the settlement date. The SEC publishes them twice a month, about two weeks late.
  • ATS (dark pool) volume: weekly volume on alternative trading systems and other off-exchange venues. FINRA publishes it two to four weeks after the week.

More in the glossary.

Short interest

Shares sold short and not yet bought back, from FINRA, on every settlement date in the last two years.

Short interest
69.1K
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
+24.4K
+54.4% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
1.00
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
151.5K
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 63,963 sharesNov 15, 2024: 151,672 sharesNov 29, 2024: 135,176 sharesDec 13, 2024: 72,232 sharesDec 31, 2024: 72,842 sharesJan 15, 2025: 87,004 sharesJan 31, 2025: 63,435 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 78,036 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 119,376 sharesMar 14, 2025: 176,908 sharesMar 31, 2025: 271,936 sharesApr 15, 2025: 123,145 sharesApr 30, 2025: 122,096 sharesMay 15, 2025: 115,916 sharesMay 30, 2025: 141,613 sharesJun 13, 2025: 32,709 sharesJun 30, 2025: 34,805 sharesJul 15, 2025: 174,657 sharesJul 31, 2025: 93,414 sharesAug 15, 2025: 95,112 sharesAug 29, 2025: 119,372 sharesSep 15, 2025: 71,226 sharesSep 30, 2025: 159,339 sharesOct 15, 2025: 181,382 sharesOct 31, 2025: 94,696 sharesNov 14, 2025: 220,928 sharesNov 28, 2025: 215,800 sharesDec 15, 2025: 247,898 sharesDec 31, 2025: 75,893 sharesJan 15, 2026: 254,684 sharesJan 30, 2026: 16,431 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 44,311 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 33,837 sharesMar 13, 2026: 29,045 sharesMar 31, 2026: 57,419 sharesApr 15, 2026: 57,959 sharesApr 30, 2026: 38,713 sharesMay 15, 2026: 110,997 sharesMay 29, 2026: 127,957 sharesJun 15, 2026: 102,048 sharesJun 30, 2026: 23,635 sharesJul 15, 2026: 42,045 sharesJul 31, 2026: 91,032 sharesAug 14, 2026: 102,994 sharesAug 31, 2026: 94,308 sharesSep 15, 2026: 76,716 sharesSep 30, 2026: 38,954 sharesOct 15, 2026: 44,759 sharesOct 30, 2026: 69,118 shares
Short interest in BSTZ by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 202669.1K+24.4K+54.4%151.5K1.00
Oct 15, 202644.8K+5.80K+14.9%200.2K1.00
Sep 30, 202639.0K−37.8K−49.2%167.7K1.00
Sep 15, 202676.7K−17.6K−18.7%170.9K1.00
Aug 31, 202694.3K−8.69K−8.4%141.3K1.00
Aug 14, 2026103.0K+12.0K+13.1%180.7K1.00
Jul 31, 202691.0K+49.0K+116.5%202.7K1.00
Jul 15, 202642.0K+18.4K+77.9%226.5K1.00
Jun 30, 202623.6K−78.4K−76.8%350.0K1.00
Jun 15, 2026102.0K−25.9K−20.3%204.1K1.00
May 29, 2026128.0K+17.0K+15.3%217.0K1.00
May 15, 2026111.0K+72.3K+186.7%230.3K1.00
Apr 30, 202638.7K−19.2K−33.2%239.2K1.00
Apr 15, 202658.0K+540+0.9%162.0K1.00
Mar 31, 202657.4K+28.4K+97.7%174.2K1.00
Mar 13, 202629.0K−4.79K−14.2%331.2K1.00
Feb 27, 202633.8K−10.5K−23.6%132.5K1.00
Feb 13, 202644.3K+27.9K+169.7%231.9K1.00
Jan 30, 202616.4K−238.3K−93.6%334.1K1.00
Jan 15, 2026254.7K+178.8K+235.6%308.1K1.00
Dec 31, 202575.9K−172.0K−69.4%190.9K1.00
Dec 15, 2025247.9K+32.1K+14.9%165.5K1.50
Nov 28, 2025215.8K−5.13K−2.3%202.5K1.07
Nov 14, 2025220.9K+126.2K+133.3%217.5K1.02
Oct 31, 202594.7K−86.7K−47.8%227.0K1.00
Oct 15, 2025181.4K+22.0K+13.8%237.6K1.00
Sep 30, 2025159.3K+88.1K+123.7%269.1K1.00
Sep 15, 202571.2K−48.1K−40.3%235.2K1.00
Aug 29, 2025119.4K+24.3K+25.5%251.5K1.00
Aug 15, 202595.1K+1.70K+1.8%230.0K1.00
Jul 31, 202593.4K−81.2K−46.5%261.7K1.00
Jul 15, 2025174.7K+139.9K+401.8%227.0K1.00
Jun 30, 202534.8K+2.10K+6.4%202.6K1.00
Jun 13, 202532.7K−108.9K−76.9%272.9K1.00
May 30, 2025141.6K+25.7K+22.2%182.1K1.00
May 15, 2025115.9K−6.18K−5.1%195.2K1.00
Apr 30, 2025122.1K−1.05K−0.9%175.3K1.00
Apr 15, 2025123.1K−148.8K−54.7%364.9K1.00
Mar 31, 2025271.9K+95.0K+53.7%235.2K1.16
Mar 14, 2025176.9K+57.5K+48.2%333.9K1.00
Feb 28, 2025119.4K+41.3K+53.0%206.2K1.00
Feb 14, 202578.0K+14.6K+23.0%261.1K1.00
Jan 31, 202563.4K−23.6K−27.1%268.3K1.00
Jan 15, 202587.0K+14.2K+19.4%222.4K1.00
Dec 31, 202472.8K+610+0.8%242.7K1.00
Dec 13, 202472.2K−62.9K−46.6%219.5K1.00
Nov 29, 2024135.2K−16.5K−10.9%160.6K1.00
Nov 15, 2024151.7K+87.7K+137.1%180.7K1.00
Oct 31, 202464.0K+18.1K+39.4%180.1K1.00

Fails-to-deliver

Shares that weren't delivered by the settlement date, from the SEC, for the last 30 dates with fails. The price is the previous day's closing price published by the SEC.

Fails-to-deliver in BSTZ by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 14, 2026207$29.25$6.05K
Oct 9, 2026198$29.91$5.92K
Oct 6, 202658$31.00$1.80K
Oct 5, 2026373$30.88$11.5K
Oct 2, 2026373$30.89$11.5K
Oct 1, 2026373$29.42$11.0K
Sep 16, 2026874$27.81$24.3K
Sep 15, 2026513$30.44$15.6K
Sep 3, 20261,716$30.68$52.6K
Sep 2, 20263,048$31.05$94.6K
Sep 1, 20261,763$31.32$55.2K
Aug 19, 202624,200$31.07$751.9K
Aug 18, 202623,279$31.71$738.2K
Aug 17, 202651$31.48$1.61K
Aug 14, 20262,358$31.66$74.7K
Aug 10, 2026836$30.08$25.1K
Aug 4, 2026200$28.96$5.79K
Jul 31, 202617$27.94$474.98
Jul 27, 2026168$28.69$4.82K
Jul 22, 2026392$28.66$11.2K
Jul 16, 2026224$29.09$6.52K
Jul 9, 2026196$28.61$5.61K
Jul 2, 2026115$30.38$3.49K
Jul 1, 20261,815$30.03$54.5K
Jun 25, 2026249$29.35$7.31K
Jun 15, 2026493$30.74$15.2K
Jun 3, 2026155$31.56$4.89K
May 29, 20263,163$30.32$95.9K
May 19, 2026100$26.75$2.67K
May 11, 2026309$27.97$8.64K

Daily short volume

Off-exchange short-sale volume, not short interest: shares sold short each day in trades reported to FINRA, for the last 30 trading days.

The short volume ratio isn't a sentiment gauge: market makers sell short to fill buy orders and to hedge, so short sales are usually about half of off-exchange volume.

Off-exchange short volume in BSTZ by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 11, 202655,6720129,64542.9%
Nov 10, 202621,268070,08330.3%
Nov 9, 202634,144969110,25431.0%
Nov 6, 202648,5650121,80239.9%
Nov 5, 2026119,509900464,52425.7%
Nov 4, 202658,969367141,86041.6%
Nov 3, 202638,1600101,92437.4%
Nov 2, 202642,4941132,55632.1%
Oct 30, 202657,5340181,98131.6%
Oct 29, 202656,1240117,56647.7%
Oct 28, 202619,208052,08936.9%
Oct 27, 202627,867080,04434.8%
Oct 26, 202623,188057,69940.2%
Oct 23, 202626,816050,89852.7%
Oct 22, 202621,025082,09725.6%
Oct 21, 202636,471070,60251.7%
Oct 20, 202628,029069,48740.3%
Oct 19, 202625,078075,67233.1%
Oct 16, 202644,0540135,93632.4%
Oct 15, 202620,755085,72624.2%
Oct 14, 202619,295079,55224.3%
Oct 13, 202621,95520074,01129.7%
Oct 12, 202630,466065,59646.4%
Oct 9, 202619,696073,31326.9%
Oct 8, 202623,8510101,29723.5%
Oct 7, 202647,9100116,44141.1%
Oct 6, 202635,3830100,29335.3%
Oct 5, 202631,651069,13845.8%
Oct 2, 202631,573085,49836.9%
Oct 1, 2026161,660161397,41340.7%

ATS (dark pool) volume

Weekly volume on alternative trading systems (ATS) and other off-exchange (OTC) venues, from FINRA, for the last 12 weeks. ATS share is ATS volume ÷ (ATS + OTC volume), not a share of all trading.

Weekly ATS and OTC volume in BSTZ
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 5, 2026T270,099825398,9632,68314.9%
Sep 28, 2026T2390,8113,395493,0213,39544.2%
Sep 21, 2026T268,092833257,2711,87920.9%
Sep 14, 2026T2121,3141,386568,4712,99717.6%
Sep 7, 2026T261,7711,882348,9191,98415.0%
Aug 31, 2026T2141,1411,746370,7642,40327.6%
Aug 24, 2026T2118,0131,118364,1062,05324.5%
Aug 17, 2026T266,798720321,5132,03317.2%
Aug 10, 2026T2151,2792,055351,6642,28930.1%
Aug 3, 2026T2160,8611,994411,0442,60028.1%
Jul 27, 2026T2148,4931,463515,0242,68622.4%
Jul 20, 2026T2184,5011,788269,3131,85440.7%