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Short interest reporting dates: recent settlements, weekday, coverage and publication lag

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.

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Short interest reporting dates: recent settlements, weekday, coverage and publication lag — 9 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
settlement_dateweekdaysecurities_on_filesecurities_on_file_fmtpublication_lag_days
May 15, 2026Friday2189421,89426
May 29, 2026Friday2198721,98712
June 15, 2026Monday2217822,17816
June 30, 2026Tuesday2220722,20711
July 15, 2026Wednesday2237322,37317
July 31, 2026Friday2233922,33911
August 14, 2026Friday2248022,48018
August 31, 2026Monday2256722,56710
September 15, 2026Tuesday2259322,59316
Rows × columns
9 × 5
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Short interest reporting dates: recent settlements, weekday, coverage and publication lag, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
settlement_date text 9 distinct values
weekday text 4 distinct values (Friday, Monday, Tuesday…)
securities_on_file number 21,894 to 22,593
securities_on_file_fmt text 9 distinct values (21,894, 21,987, 22,178…)
publication_lag_days number 10 to 26

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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SELECT concat(monthName(d), ' ', toString(toDayOfMonth(d)), ', ', toString(toYear(d))) AS settlement_date,
       weekday,
       securities_on_file,
       multiIf(securities_on_file < 1000, toString(securities_on_file),
               concat(toString(intDiv(securities_on_file, 1000)), ',', lpad(toString(securities_on_file % 1000), 3, '0'))) AS securities_on_file_fmt,
       publication_lag_days
FROM
(
    SELECT settlement_date AS d,
           formatDateTime(settlement_date, '%W') AS weekday,
           uniqExact(ticker) AS securities_on_file,
           dateDiff('day', settlement_date, toDate(min(_ingest_time))) AS publication_lag_days
    FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
    WHERE settlement_date >= today() - INTERVAL 5 MONTH
    GROUP BY settlement_date
)
ORDER BY d
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