short_side_pressure
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-09-28, from can-you-buy-a-put-without-owning-the-stock.
| symbol | days_to_cover |
|---|---|
| MSFT | 3.73 |
| AAPL | 2.85 |
| KO | 2.79 |
| NVDA | 2.55 |
| SPY | 2.46 |
- Rows × columns
- 5 × 2
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol |
text | 5 distinct values (AAPL, KO, MSFT…) | |
days_to_cover |
number | 2.46 to 3.73 |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
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SELECT
ticker AS symbol,
round(argMax(days_to_cover, settlement_date), 2) AS days_to_cover
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'KO', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY')
AND settlement_date >= today() - 120
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY days_to_cover DESC
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