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GameStop, Nov 2020 – Mar 2021: short interest, days to cover and the closing price at each settlement

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 FINRA Short Interest? Days to Cover.

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GameStop, Nov 2020 – Mar 2021: short interest, days to cover and the closing price at each settlement — 10 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
settlement_dateshares_short_mdays_to_covergme_close
November 13, 202067.51411.02
November 30, 2020688.716.57
December 15, 202068.16.913.87
December 31, 202071.26.118.81
January 15, 202161.82.135.49
January 29, 202121.41328.24
February 12, 202116.5152.33
February 26, 202114.21101.6
March 15, 202110.21220.13
March 31, 202110.71190.01
Rows × columns
10 × 4
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 GameStop, Nov 2020 – Mar 2021: short interest, days to cover and the closing price at each settlement, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
settlement_date date December 1 to November 3
shares_short_m number 10.2 to 71.2 count
days_to_cover number 1 to 14
gme_close number 11.02 to 328.24 US dollars

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 px AS
(
    SELECT toDate(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) AS day,
           argMax(toFloat64(close), window_start) AS close_px
    FROM global_markets.delayed_stocks_minute_aggs
    WHERE ticker = 'GME'
      AND window_start >= '2020-11-01 00:00:00'
      AND window_start < '2021-04-02 00:00:00'
      AND toHour(toTimeZone(window_start, 'America/New_York')) BETWEEN 9 AND 15
    GROUP BY day
),
si AS
(
    SELECT settlement_date,
           round(max(short_interest) / 1e6, 1) AS shares_short_m,
           round(max(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'
    GROUP BY settlement_date
)
SELECT concat(monthName(si.settlement_date), ' ', toString(toDayOfMonth(si.settlement_date)), ', ', toString(toYear(si.settlement_date))) AS settlement_date,
       si.shares_short_m AS shares_short_m,
       si.days_to_cover AS days_to_cover,
       round(px.close_px, 2) AS gme_close
FROM si
INNER JOIN px ON si.settlement_date = px.day
ORDER BY si.settlement_date

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