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Settlement dates per year in the short interest file, 2018–2026

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 2026-07-26, from FINRA Short Interest Data, Explained.

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Settlement dates per year in the short interest file, 2018–2026 — 9 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
yearsettlement_dates
201824
201924
202024
202124
202224
202324
202424
202524
202613
Rows × columns
9 × 2
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Settlement dates per year in the short interest file, 2018–2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
year number 2,018 to 2,026
settlement_dates number 13 to 24

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.

the exact SQL behind every number 
SELECT toYear(settlement_date) AS year,
       uniqExact(settlement_date) AS settlement_dates
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date >= '2018-01-01'
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year

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