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AAPL reported short interest by settlement date, first half of 2026

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 2026-09-24, from Why Open Interest Updates Only Once a Day.

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AAPL reported short interest by settlement date, first half of 2026 — 12 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
settlement_datesettlement_labelshort_interest_millions
2026-01-15Jan 15113.58
2026-01-30Jan 30116.85
2026-02-13Feb 13133.37
2026-02-27Feb 27129.55
2026-03-13Mar 13124.19
2026-03-31Mar 31126.77
2026-04-15Apr 15134.42
2026-04-30Apr 30134.68
2026-05-15May 15138.78
2026-05-29May 29155.89
2026-06-15Jun 15144.25
2026-06-30Jun 30140.53
Rows × columns
12 × 3
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 AAPL reported short interest by settlement date, first half of 2026, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
settlement_date date 2026-01-15 to 2026-06-30
settlement_label text 12 distinct values (Apr 15, Apr 30, Feb 13…)
short_interest_millions number 113.58 to 155.89

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
    toString(settlement_date)                         AS settlement_date,
    formatDateTime(toDate(settlement_date), '%b %e')  AS settlement_label,
    round(toFloat64(max(short_interest)) / 1e6, 2)    AS short_interest_millions
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
  AND settlement_date >= '2026-01-01'
  AND settlement_date <= '2026-06-30'
GROUP BY settlement_date
ORDER BY settlement_date
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