Biggest days-to-cover increases, latest settlement vs. the prior print

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 2026-08-25, from Most Shorted Stocks Right Now, Measured.

Rows × columns

8 × 4

Computed

2026-08-25

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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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 2026-08-25, and the query below is what returned them.

WITH dates AS (
    SELECT DISTINCT settlement_date AS d
    FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
    ORDER BY d DESC
    LIMIT 2
)
SELECT ticker,
       round(anyIf(days_to_cover, settlement_date = (SELECT min(d) FROM dates)), 1) AS prior_dtc,
       round(anyIf(days_to_cover, settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates)), 1) AS latest_dtc,
       round(anyIf(days_to_cover, settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates))
             - anyIf(days_to_cover, settlement_date = (SELECT min(d) FROM dates)), 1) AS dtc_change
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date IN (SELECT d FROM dates)
  AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
  AND days_to_cover IS NOT NULL
  AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
GROUP BY ticker
HAVING count() = 2 AND dtc_change >= 0.1
ORDER BY dtc_change DESC, ticker
LIMIT 8