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Highest days to cover, latest settlement: 500k average-volume floor

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 Highest Days to Cover Stocks Right Now.

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Highest days to cover, latest settlement: 500k average-volume floor — 12 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerdays_to_covershares_short_mavg_daily_volume_msettled
WCPRF45.626.020.572026-07-31
IPSC40.729.820.732026-07-31
IMO3919.960.512026-07-31
ARAFF34.820.040.582026-07-31
MPT30.8144.274.682026-07-31
IEP28.616.930.592026-07-31
STOK27.715.810.572026-07-31
LCTX26.229.561.132026-07-31
CATX25.623.470.912026-07-31
HRTX24.443.241.772026-07-31
IMNM2317.980.782026-07-31
GPGI22.931.821.392026-07-31
Rows × columns
12 × 5
Period covered
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 Highest days to cover, latest settlement: 500k average-volume floor, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 12 distinct values (ARAFF, CATX, GPGI…)
days_to_cover number 22.9 to 45.6
shares_short_m number 15.81 to 144.27 count
avg_daily_volume_m number 0.51 to 4.68 count
settled date 2026-07-31

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 ticker,
       round(days_to_cover, 1) AS days_to_cover,
       round(short_interest / 1e6, 2) AS shares_short_m,
       round(avg_daily_volume / 1e6, 2) AS avg_daily_volume_m,
       toString(settlement_date) AS settled
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(settlement_date) FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest)
  AND avg_daily_volume > 500000
  AND days_to_cover > 0
  AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
ORDER BY days_to_cover DESC, ticker
LIMIT 12

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