AAPL days to cover and its rank inside the three-year window

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 How to Read the COT Report: Columns Explained.

Rows × columns

72 × 4

Period covered

2023-07-14 to 2026-06-30

Computed

2026-08-22

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

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.

WITH history AS
(
    SELECT
        settlement_date               AS d,
        max(toFloat64(days_to_cover)) AS dtc
    FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
    WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
      AND settlement_date >= '2023-07-01'
      AND settlement_date <  '2026-07-01'
      AND days_to_cover > 0
    GROUP BY settlement_date
)
SELECT
    toString(a.d)                                     AS settlement_date,
    formatDateTime(a.d, '%b %e, %Y')                  AS as_of_label,
    round(a.dtc, 2)                                   AS days_to_cover_ratio,
    round(100 * countIf(b.dtc <= a.dtc) / count(), 0) AS window_percentile_pct
FROM history AS a
CROSS JOIN history AS b
GROUP BY a.d, a.dtc
ORDER BY a.d