The latest FINRA short interest file: one snapshot of the whole market
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 × 4
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
latest_settlement_date |
text | 1 distinct value (September 15, 2026) | |
tickers_reported |
number | every row is 22,593 | |
tickers_reported_fmt |
text | 1 distinct value (22,593) | |
total_shares_short_b |
number | every row is 55.6 | 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 , and the query below is what returned them.
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This is the exact query behind the result above. Change a ticker, a date or a column and run it against the warehouse — no account, no key. The no-signup tier is smaller than the one this page was computed on; a query that reaches past it comes back saying which plan runs it.
WITH (SELECT max(settlement_date) FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest) AS latest
SELECT concat(monthName(latest), ' ', toString(toDayOfMonth(latest)), ', ', toString(toYear(latest))) AS latest_settlement_date,
count() AS tickers_reported,
multiIf(count() < 1000, toString(count()),
concat(toString(intDiv(count(), 1000)), ',', lpad(toString(count() % 1000), 3, '0'))) AS tickers_reported_fmt,
round(sum(si) / 1e9, 1) AS total_shares_short_b
FROM
(
SELECT ticker, max(short_interest) AS si
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = latest
GROUP BY ticker
)
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