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.
| settlement_date | shares_short_m | days_to_cover | gme_close |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 13, 2020 | 67.5 | 14 | 11.02 |
| November 30, 2020 | 68 | 8.7 | 16.57 |
| December 15, 2020 | 68.1 | 6.9 | 13.87 |
| December 31, 2020 | 71.2 | 6.1 | 18.81 |
| January 15, 2021 | 61.8 | 2.1 | 35.49 |
| January 29, 2021 | 21.4 | 1 | 328.24 |
| February 12, 2021 | 16.5 | 1 | 52.33 |
| February 26, 2021 | 14.2 | 1 | 101.6 |
| March 15, 2021 | 10.2 | 1 | 220.13 |
| March 31, 2021 | 10.7 | 1 | 190.01 |
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- 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 | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
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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