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The screened names ranked by short interest against shares outstanding (not float)

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 2026-08-24, from Short Squeeze Candidates This Week.

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The screened names ranked by short interest against shares outstanding (not float) — 10 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickersi_pct_shares_outshares_short_mshares_out_mdays_to_cover
RXRX33.7180.85369.3
WEN30.958.81918.5
AI29.846.31558.4
SLS27.2552027.9
RIG22.8254.411175.6
SOC22.4431925.4
UAMY22.333.41506.2
IOVA22.11004536.3
FLO20.8442128.6
LYFT20.376.73796.3
Rows × columns
10 × 5
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for The screened names ranked by short interest against shares outstanding (not float), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 10 distinct values (AI, FLO, IOVA…)
si_pct_shares_out number 20.3 to 33.7 percent
shares_short_m number 33.4 to 254.4 count
shares_out_m number 150 to 1,117 count
days_to_cover number 5.4 to 9.3

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
WITH latest AS (
    SELECT max(settlement_date) AS d FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
),
sessions AS (
    SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'SPY'
      AND window_start >= now() - INTERVAL 20 DAY
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
        + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= 570
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
        + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) < 960
    GROUP BY session
    HAVING count() >= 380
    ORDER BY session DESC
    LIMIT 6
),
crowded AS (
    SELECT ticker, days_to_cover, short_interest
    FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
    WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT d FROM latest)
      AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
      AND days_to_cover >= 5
      AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
      AND ticker NOT IN ('KORU','SOXL','SOXS','TQQQ','SQQQ','NVDL','NVDS','NVD','TSLL','TSLQ','TSLZ','SPXL','SPXS','UPRO','SPXU','LABU','LABD','FAS','FAZ','TNA','TZA','YINN','YANG','UDOW','SDOW','BOIL','KOLD','UCO','SCO','USD','SSO','SDS','QLD','QID','ERX','ERY','DRN','DRV','CURE','SOXY','MUU','SNXX','UVXY','SVXY','UVIX','SVIX','BULZ','WEBL','WEBS','DPST','DRIP','GUSH','AGQ','ZSL','BITX','ETHU','MSTX','MSTU','CONL','DUST','JNUG','JDST','NUGT')
      AND ticker NOT IN (SELECT ticker FROM global_markets.stocks_splits
                         WHERE execution_date BETWEEN today() - 60 AND today())
),
tape AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS session,
           argMax(close, window_start) AS rth_close
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker IN (SELECT ticker FROM crowded)
      AND toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) IN (SELECT session FROM sessions)
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
        + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) >= 570
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) * 60
        + toMinute(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) < 960
    GROUP BY ticker, session
),
rising AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           round((argMax(rth_close, session) / argMin(rth_close, session) - 1) * 100, 1) AS return_5d_pct
    FROM tape
    GROUP BY ticker
    HAVING count() = 6 AND return_5d_pct > 0
),
share_count AS (
    SELECT ticker, market_cap / price AS shares_out
    FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios
    WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM global_markets.stocks_ratios)
      AND market_cap > 0
      AND price > 0
)
SELECT c.ticker AS ticker,
       round(100.0 * c.short_interest / s.shares_out, 1) AS si_pct_shares_out,
       round(c.short_interest / 1e6, 1) AS shares_short_m,
       round(s.shares_out / 1e6, 0) AS shares_out_m,
       round(c.days_to_cover, 1) AS days_to_cover
FROM crowded c
INNER JOIN rising r ON r.ticker = c.ticker
INNER JOIN share_count s ON s.ticker = c.ticker
ORDER BY si_pct_shares_out DESC, c.ticker
LIMIT 10

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