The receipts: file size, liquid names, thin names, and the liquid median

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.

Rows × columns

1 × 5

Period covered

2026-07-31

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

Licence

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Formats

JSON · CSV · the SQL below

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 count() AS tickers_reported,
       countIf(avg_daily_volume >= 5e6 AND days_to_cover > 0) AS liquid_names,
       countIf(avg_daily_volume < 1e6 AND days_to_cover > 0) AS thin_names,
       round(quantileDeterministicIf(0.5)(days_to_cover, cityHash64(ticker), avg_daily_volume >= 5e6), 1) AS liquid_median_dtc,
       toString(max(settlement_date)) AS settled
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(settlement_date) FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest)
  AND days_to_cover > 0