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Every incrementally-delivered settlement: measured on one date, on file days later

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 Why Short Interest Data Is Always Two Weeks Old.

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Every incrementally-delivered settlement: measured on one date, on file days later — 10 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
settlement_datearrived_herepublication_lag_days
2026-03-132026-04-0119
2026-03-312026-04-1010
2026-04-152026-05-0116
2026-04-302026-05-1111
2026-05-152026-06-1026
2026-05-292026-06-1012
2026-06-152026-07-0116
2026-06-302026-07-1111
2026-07-152026-08-0117
2026-07-312026-08-1111
Rows × columns
10 × 3
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for Every incrementally-delivered settlement: measured on one date, on file days later, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
settlement_date date 2026-03-13 to 2026-07-31
arrived_here date 2026-04-01 to 2026-08-11
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.

the exact SQL behind every number
WITH first_arrival AS (
    SELECT settlement_date,
           toDate(min(_ingest_time)) AS arrived
    FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
    GROUP BY settlement_date
),
bulk_days AS (
    SELECT arrived
    FROM first_arrival
    GROUP BY arrived
    HAVING count() > 5
)
SELECT settlement_date,
       toString(arrived) AS arrived_here,
       dateDiff('day', settlement_date, arrived) AS publication_lag_days
FROM first_arrival
WHERE arrived NOT IN (SELECT arrived FROM bulk_days)
ORDER BY settlement_date

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