How many liquid stocks sit in each days-to-cover bucket

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 2026-08-22, from Hard-to-Borrow Lists and Borrow Fees.

Rows × columns

5 × 2

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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What each column holds

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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    multiIf(dtc < 0.5, 'under 0.5 days',
            dtc < 1,   '0.5 to 1 day',
            dtc < 2,   '1 to 2 days',
            dtc < 3,   '2 to 3 days',
            dtc < 5,   '3 to 5 days',
            dtc < 10,  '5 to 10 days',
                       '10 days or more') AS days_to_cover_bucket,
    count()                               AS stocks_in_bucket
FROM
(
    SELECT
        ticker,
        max(days_to_cover) AS dtc
    FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
    WHERE settlement_date = (
            SELECT max(settlement_date)
            FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
          )
      AND avg_daily_volume >= 250000
      AND days_to_cover > 0
      AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
    GROUP BY ticker
)
GROUP BY days_to_cover_bucket
ORDER BY min(dtc)