Days to cover across all liquid US tickers, latest settlement (min 1M shares/day)
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 2026-10-04, from What Is FINRA Short Interest? Days to Cover.
- Rows × columns
- 1 × 6
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
liquid_tickers |
number | every row is 2,642 | |
liquid_tickers_fmt |
text | 1 distinct value (2,642) | |
median_days_to_cover |
number | every row is 3.1 | |
p90_days_to_cover |
number | every row is 8.4 | |
lowest_days_to_cover |
number | every row is 1 | |
names_at_10_plus |
number | every row is 167 |
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 (SELECT max(settlement_date) FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest) AS latest
SELECT count() AS liquid_tickers,
multiIf(count() < 1000, toString(count()),
concat(toString(intDiv(count(), 1000)), ',', lpad(toString(count() % 1000), 3, '0'))) AS liquid_tickers_fmt,
round(quantileExact(0.5)(dtc), 1) AS median_days_to_cover,
round(quantileExact(0.9)(dtc), 1) AS p90_days_to_cover,
min(dtc) AS lowest_days_to_cover,
countIf(dtc >= 10) AS names_at_10_plus
FROM
(
SELECT ticker, max(days_to_cover) AS dtc, max(avg_daily_volume) AS adv
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = latest
GROUP BY ticker
)
WHERE adv >= 1000000
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