Daily short-volume file coverage: tickers on file and short shares, July 20-24

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 2026-08-12, from Market Recap: Week of July 20, 2026.

Rows × columns

5 × 4

Period covered

2026-07-20 to 2026-07-24

Computed

2026-08-12

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 2026-08-12, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT date, tickers_on_file, short_shares_bn,
       round(100.0 * tickers_on_file / max(tickers_on_file) OVER (), 1) AS pct_of_fullest_file
FROM (
    SELECT toString(date) AS date,
           uniqExact(ticker) AS tickers_on_file,
           round(sum(short_shares) / 1e9, 2) AS short_shares_bn
    FROM (
        SELECT date, ticker, max(short_volume) AS short_shares
        FROM global_markets.stocks_short_volume
        WHERE date >= '2026-07-20' AND date <= '2026-07-24'
        GROUP BY date, ticker
    )
    GROUP BY date
)
ORDER BY date