Largest short positions by shares: latest settlement, liquid names

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

10 × 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.

SELECT ticker,
       round(short_interest / 1e6, 1) AS shares_short_m,
       round(days_to_cover, 1) AS days_to_cover,
       round(avg_daily_volume / 1e6, 1) AS avg_daily_volume_m
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(settlement_date) FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest)
  AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
  AND short_interest IS NOT NULL
  AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
ORDER BY short_interest DESC, ticker
LIMIT 10