Share of AAPL's reported off-exchange volume marked short, August 2026
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 2026-09-14, from How to Short a Stock, Step by Step.
| session_date | session_label | short_marked_pct | reported_volume_millions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-03 | Aug 3 | 45.9 | 29.4 |
| 2026-08-04 | Aug 4 | 47.6 | 22.29 |
| 2026-08-05 | Aug 5 | 52.1 | 16.28 |
| 2026-08-07 | Aug 7 | 41.6 | 13.33 |
| 2026-08-10 | Aug 10 | 42.4 | 14.91 |
| 2026-08-11 | Aug 11 | 35.9 | 13.13 |
| 2026-08-13 | Aug 13 | 35.9 | 12.7 |
| 2026-08-14 | Aug 14 | 32.9 | 9.13 |
| 2026-08-17 | Aug 17 | 37.5 | 11.84 |
| 2026-08-19 | Aug 19 | 39.6 | 16.15 |
| 2026-08-20 | Aug 20 | 39.3 | 12.38 |
| 2026-08-21 | Aug 21 | 50.4 | 12.55 |
| 2026-08-25 | Aug 25 | 58.5 | 9.67 |
| 2026-08-26 | Aug 26 | 51.8 | 12.34 |
| 2026-08-27 | Aug 27 | 56.7 | 10.25 |
| 2026-08-31 | Aug 31 | 51.5 | 11.91 |
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- 16 × 4
- Period covered
- to
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
session_date |
date | 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-31 | |
session_label |
text | 16 distinct values (Aug 10, Aug 11, Aug 13…) | |
short_marked_pct |
number | 32.9 to 58.5 | percent |
reported_volume_millions |
number | 9.13 to 29.4 | count |
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
toString(date) AS session_date,
concat(formatDateTime(date, '%b'), ' ', toString(toDayOfMonth(date))) AS session_label,
round(100 * toFloat64(max(short_volume)) / toFloat64(max(total_volume)), 1) AS short_marked_pct,
round(toFloat64(max(total_volume)) / 1e6, 2) AS reported_volume_millions
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_volume
WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
AND date >= '2026-08-01'
AND date < '2026-09-01'
GROUP BY date
HAVING max(total_volume) > 0
ORDER BY date
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