The receipts: universe size, filter bite, median crowding, and list churn at the latest 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 2026-10-08, from Most Shorted Stocks Right Now, Measured.
- Rows × columns
- 1 × 5
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
- Licence
- Strasmore terms · free, no signup
What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
tickers_reported |
number | every row is 22,593 | |
liquid_tickers |
number | every row is 693 | |
liquid_median_dtc |
number | every row is 2.2 | |
dtc_top10_repeats |
number | every row is 6 | |
size_top10_min_dtc |
number | every row is 2.6 |
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.
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WITH dates AS (
SELECT DISTINCT settlement_date AS d
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
ORDER BY d DESC
LIMIT 2
),
top10_dtc_latest AS (
SELECT ticker FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates) AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
AND days_to_cover IS NOT NULL AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
ORDER BY days_to_cover DESC, ticker LIMIT 10
),
top10_dtc_prior AS (
SELECT ticker FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT min(d) FROM dates) AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
AND days_to_cover IS NOT NULL AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
ORDER BY days_to_cover DESC, ticker LIMIT 10
),
size10_latest AS (
SELECT ticker, days_to_cover FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates) AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
AND short_interest IS NOT NULL AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
ORDER BY short_interest DESC, ticker LIMIT 10
)
SELECT
(SELECT count() FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates)) AS tickers_reported,
(SELECT count() FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates) AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000) AS liquid_tickers,
(SELECT round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(days_to_cover, cityHash64(ticker)), 1)
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates) AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
AND days_to_cover IS NOT NULL) AS liquid_median_dtc,
(SELECT count() FROM top10_dtc_latest
WHERE ticker IN (SELECT ticker FROM top10_dtc_prior)) AS dtc_top10_repeats,
(SELECT round(min(days_to_cover), 1) FROM size10_latest) AS size_top10_min_dtc
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