GME reported short interest by settlement date: November 2020 to February 2021

Name: GME reported short interest by settlement date: November 2020 to February 2021
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-07-26
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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 GameStop, Jan 28, 2021: $483 to $112 by Noon.

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GME reported short interest by settlement date: November 2020 to February 2021 — 8 rows by 3 columns, computed 2026-07-26 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
settled	shares_short_m	days_to_cover
2020-11-13	67.5	14
2020-11-30	68	8.7
2020-12-15	68.1	6.9
2020-12-31	71.2	6.1
2021-01-15	61.8	2.1
2021-01-29	21.4	1
2021-02-12	16.5	1
2021-02-26	14.2	1

Rows × columns: 8 × 3
Period covered: 2020-11-13 to 2021-02-26
Computed: 2026-07-26
Completeness: No missing values
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence: Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for GME reported short interest by settlement date: November 2020 to February 2021, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`settled`	date	2020-11-13 to 2021-02-26
`shares_short_m`	number	14.2 to 71.2	count
`days_to_cover`	number	1 to 14

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 2026-07-26, and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number

SELECT toString(settlement_date) AS settled,
       round(short_interest / 1e6, 1) AS shares_short_m,
       round(days_to_cover, 1) AS days_to_cover
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE ticker = 'GME'
  AND settlement_date >= '2020-11-01'
  AND settlement_date <= '2021-02-28'
ORDER BY settlement_date

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