GME days to cover, settlement by settlement: June 2020 through the January 29, 2021 squeeze print

Name: GME days to cover, settlement by settlement: June 2020 through the January 29, 2021 squeeze print
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-07-26
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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 2026-07-26, from What Is Days to Cover? Short Interest Ratio.

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GME days to cover, settlement by settlement: June 2020 through the January 29, 2021 squeeze print — 15 rows by 5 columns, computed 2026-07-26 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
settlement_date	days_to_cover	peak_days_to_cover	shares_short_m	avg_daily_volume_m
2020-06-30	17.03	17.03	54.6	3.2
2020-07-15	25.82	25.82	53.5	2.1
2020-07-31	20.82	25.82	54.5	2.6
2020-08-14	15.5	25.82	55.7	3.6
2020-08-31	15.96	25.82	57.9	3.6
2020-09-15	6.1	25.82	66.4	10.9
2020-09-30	5.62	25.82	68.6	12.2
2020-10-15	3.55	25.82	70.3	19.8
2020-10-30	8.11	25.82	66.8	8.2
2020-11-13	14.05	25.82	67.5	4.8
2020-11-30	8.72	25.82	68	7.8
2020-12-15	6.89	25.82	68.1	9.9
2020-12-31	6.14	25.82	71.2	11.6
2021-01-15	2.1	25.82	61.8	29.4
2021-01-29	1	25.82	21.4	96.8

Rows × columns: 15 × 5
Period covered: 2020-06-30 to 2021-01-29
Computed: 2026-07-26
Completeness: No missing values
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence: Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for GME days to cover, settlement by settlement: June 2020 through the January 29, 2021 squeeze print, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`settlement_date`	date	2020-06-30 to 2021-01-29
`days_to_cover`	number	1 to 25.82
`peak_days_to_cover`	number	17.03 to 25.82
`shares_short_m`	number	21.4 to 71.2	count
`avg_daily_volume_m`	number	2.1 to 96.8	count

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 2026-07-26, and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number

SELECT settlement_date,
       round(days_to_cover, 2) AS days_to_cover,
       round(max(days_to_cover) OVER (ORDER BY settlement_date), 2) AS peak_days_to_cover,
       round(short_interest / 1e6, 1) AS shares_short_m,
       round(avg_daily_volume / 1e6, 1) AS avg_daily_volume_m
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE ticker = 'GME'
  AND settlement_date >= '2020-06-30'
  AND settlement_date <= '2021-01-29'
ORDER BY settlement_date

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