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GME short interest by settlement date, November 2020 through March 2021

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 2026-08-22, from What Is a Short Squeeze? GameStop, Measured.

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GME short interest by settlement date, November 2020 through March 2021 — 10 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
settledshares_short_mdays_to_cover
2020-11-1367.514
2020-11-30688.7
2020-12-1568.16.9
2020-12-3171.26.1
2021-01-1561.82.1
2021-01-2921.41
2021-02-1216.51
2021-02-2614.21
2021-03-1510.21
2021-03-3110.71
Rows × columns
10 × 3
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for GME short interest by settlement date, November 2020 through March 2021, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
settled date 2020-11-13 to 2021-03-31
shares_short_m number 10.2 to 71.2 count
days_to_cover number 1 to 14

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 
SELECT toString(settlement_date) AS settled,
       round(short_interest / 1e6, 1) AS shares_short_m,
       round(days_to_cover, 1) AS days_to_cover
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE ticker = 'GME'
  AND settlement_date >= '2020-11-01'
  AND settlement_date <= '2021-03-31'
ORDER BY settlement_date

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