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Weekly Market Recap: The Week in Numbers
Where the volume went: most dollars traded over the past weekranking · 2026-09-15 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. The eleven S&P 500 sectors over the past weekranking · 2026-09-15 · 11×2Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers over the past weekranking · 2026-09-15 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. The major index ETFs over the past weekranking · 2026-09-15 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers over the past weekranking · 2026-09-15 · 7×3Preview: 7 ranked values, largest first. Daily market breadth: advancers vs decliners each session (names trading $500M+)series · 2026-09-15 · 5×3Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower.
Upcoming Stock Splits Calendar
Upcoming US stock splits: announced, with a future effective datetable · 2026-09-15 · 30×5 Announced upcoming splits by directionranking · 2026-09-15 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Announced stock splits by effective month: forward vs reverseseries · 2026-09-15 · 4×4Preview: a 4-point series, ending lower.
Upcoming Ex-Dividend Dates: Stocks This Week
Three household payers at their last ex-date: prior close, ex-morning open, and the payment for scaleseries · 2026-09-15 · 3×8Preview: a 3-point series, roughly flat. Who goes ex-dividend in the next 14 days: names, cadence and implied yield by size bandtable · 2026-09-15 · 4×5 Names going ex-dividend, day by day: the next seven days of declared recordsseries · 2026-09-15 · 5×5Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower. Ex-dividend dates by calendar month: three-year average, quarterly vs monthly payersseries · 2026-09-15 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Thirteen big dividend and income funds: last ex-date, cadence, and the implied next ex-dateseries · 2026-09-15 · 13×8Preview: a 13-point series, roughly flat. Forward-declared ex-dividend records on file: the receipt behind this calendarscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×53,507 Every mega-cap ex-dividend event of the past six months: price path from the pre-ex closetable · 2026-09-15 · 5×6 Largest companies going ex-dividend in the next 14 days: amount, pay date, indicated yieldseries · 2026-09-15 · 12×8Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
Unusual Volume Stocks This Week, Measured
How the whole qualifying universe traded this week, bucketed by relative volumeranking · 2026-09-15 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first. Persistence check: the eight leaders' daily relative volume across the five sessionstable · 2026-09-15 · 8×5 Highest relative volume this week: trailing 5 sessions vs. the prior 40, for names trading $500M+ in the weekseries · 2026-09-15 · 8×6Preview: a 8-point series, ending lower. The board leader, day by day: daily relative volume and open-to-close change (last 15 sessions)series · 2026-09-15 · 15×5Preview: a 15-point series, roughly flat. Wild multiples the dollar floor removes: highest relative volume among names trading under $500M this weekseries · 2026-09-15 · 6×5Preview: a 6-point series, ending higher.
Unusual Options Activity: Last Session
Market-wide options volume by session, with monthly expirations labelledseries · 2026-09-15 · 25×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Calls or puts: the board's call and put contract volume on the same sessiontable · 2026-09-15 · 10×5 What follows a heavy options session: next-session absolute move vs. the same names on an ordinary daytable · 2026-09-15 · 5×6 What the session's contracts were made of: options volume by days to expiryranking · 2026-09-15 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Unusual options activity: last completed session vs. each underlying's own 20-session averagetable · 2026-09-15 · 10×8
Short Squeeze Candidates This Week
Squeeze-shaped mechanics: crowded shorts among liquid names, with a rising priceranking · 2026-09-15 · 12×4Preview: 12 ranked values, largest first. The screened names ranked by short interest against shares outstanding (not float)table · 2026-09-15 · 10×5 Every past screened name, by what it did over the next 30 daysranking · 2026-09-15 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. From the whole settlement file down to the screened list, one rule at a timeranking · 2026-09-15 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Every input behind this screen, and how many days old it isseries · 2026-09-15 · 3×3Preview: a 3-point series, ending lower. Liquid names at 5+ and 10+ days to cover, settlement by settlementseries · 2026-09-15 · 12×4Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher.
Short Selling Bans Explained: US, Germany, EU
What ESMA measured during the 2020 bans (published estimates, % versus the control group)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Every outright short selling ban since 2008, dated to the order that set ittable · 2026-09-15 · 9×5
Recent Stock Splits (Forward and Reverse)
Forward vs reverse splits executed in the last 45 daysranking · 2026-09-15 · 2×2Preview: 2 ranked values, largest first. Recent reverse stock splits (shares consolidated), last 30 daysranking · 2026-09-15 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first. Recent forward stock splits (shares multiplied), last 60 days, ETFs excludedranking · 2026-09-15 · 15×4Preview: 15 ranked values, largest first.
Options Expiry Days in India: NSE and BSE
Weekdays with a traded expiration: SPY, QQQ and IWM, trailing five weeksranking · 2026-09-15 · 3×4Preview: 3 ranked values, largest first.
Most Shorted Stocks Right Now, Measured
The receipts: universe size, filter bite, median crowding, and list churn at the latest printscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×522,567 Largest short positions by shares: latest settlement, liquid namesranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Crowding leaders vs. their own price: about one month of sessionsseries · 2026-09-15 · 4×5Preview: a 4-point series, ending higher. GME through the January 2021 squeeze: the same three columns, settlement by settlementseries · 2026-09-15 · 10×4Preview: a 10-point series, ending lower. Today's top-3 crowding leaders, traced back eight settlementsseries · 2026-09-15 · 8×4Preview: a 8-point series, ending higher. Biggest days-to-cover increases, latest settlement vs. the prior printranking · 2026-09-15 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Highest days to cover among liquid names: latest settlement on filetable · 2026-09-15 · 10×5
Stock Market Holidays 2026–2027: NYSE & Nasdaq
Upcoming US stock market holidays and early closesseries · 2026-09-15 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Recently-passed weekday closures, recovered from the SPY tapeseries · 2026-09-15 · 4×3Preview: a 4-point series, roughly flat. Regular trading sessions over the trailing yearscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×3252 The closure calendar ahead, at a glancescalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×610
Is the Stock Market Open Today?
This calendar year's closures: already passed (counted from the tape) plus still ahead (from the calendar)table · 2026-09-15 · 2×5 SPY across recent weekends and holiday weekends: Friday's close vs. the reopening printseries · 2026-09-15 · 11×6Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower. Every upcoming NYSE closure and early close on the calendar feed, with a countdownseries · 2026-09-15 · 12×6Preview: a 12-point series, ending higher. Unscheduled closures on the tape: zero regular-session bars on an ordinary weekdayseries · 2026-09-15 · 5×4Preview: a 5-point series, roughly flat. Market status computed at this page's refresh: weekday check, holiday check, and the ET clockscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×70 The most recent session on the tape: bar count, same-day SPY options prints, and the last half-day observedscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×6211 Weekdays in the trailing year when stocks traded but no Treasury yield printedtable · 2026-09-15 · 2×2
How to Read the US Equity Trade Tape
Two companies behind one symbol: TWTR on the daily barsseries · 2026-09-15 · 2×5Preview: a 2-point series, ending higher. The tape column on eight symbols, 2023-03-15ranking · 2026-09-15 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. Sessions and symbols on the tape, by yearseries · 2026-09-15 · 24×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Share of prints with a placeholder participant timestamp, one March session per year (IBM and MSFT)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 24×4Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. IBM's NYSE closing auction print: seconds after 4:00 p.m. ET, one March session per yearranking · 2026-09-15 · 17×4Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. Placeholder share by session, five large names, July to August 2015series · 2026-09-15 · 15×3Preview: a 15-point series, ending lower. The first session with a populated participant timestampscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×26.41M Correction indicator counts on one session, fifteen large names, 2023-03-15ranking · 2026-09-15 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first.
Highest Implied Volatility Stocks Right Now
SPY, the same measurement: the market's calm benchmarkscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×313.2 ATM implied volatility across every actively traded underlying, latest sessionscalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×5969 Highest ATM implied volatility: liquid single names and funds, latest sessiontable · 2026-09-15 · 12×5
Dividend Increases & Cuts This Week
Increases against cuts, by week of declaration (complete weeks only)series · 2026-09-15 · 26×4Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Payers across their own share split: the raw change against the split-adjusted changeseries · 2026-09-15 · 9×7Preview: a 9-point series, ending lower. Increases, cuts and the typical raise this calendar year, by company size (bands use today's market value)table · 2026-09-15 · 4×6 Dividend increases declared in the last 7 days, largest companies first (capped at 12 rows)series · 2026-09-15 · 6×8Preview: a 6-point series, ending lower. Dividend cuts declared in the last 90 days, the deepest 14 first (one week is too thin for a table)series · 2026-09-15 · 14×6Preview: a 14-point series, ending higher.
Can You Day Trade an Index Fund? ETFs vs Funds
VOO: last traded price in each 30-minute bucket of the most recent complete session (ET, extended hours included)series · 2026-09-15 · 25×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher. Typical quoted spread on the three largest S&P 500 ETFs, trailing five daysranking · 2026-09-15 · 3×3Preview: 3 ranked values, smallest first.
Biggest Stock Gainers and Losers This Week
Biggest stock losers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index ETFs this week, for contextranking · 2026-09-15 · 4×2Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock gainers this week (names trading $1B+, leveraged/inverse ETFs excluded)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×4Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Biggest Stock Movers This Month
The window and the screened universe behind every board on this pagescalar · 2026-09-15 · 1×521 Where every screened company landed: monthly returns by bucketranking · 2026-09-15 · 6×2Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Eight household mega-cap names over the same windowranking · 2026-09-15 · 8×2Preview: 8 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index trackers across the same window, rebased to the first openseries · 2026-09-15 · 21×5Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. Biggest stock gainers this month (companies trading $1B+ over the window)ranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first.
Biggest Stock Gainers & Losers of 2026
Excluded from the boards: 2026 splits large enough to fake a year-to-date moveseries · 2026-09-15 · 13×5Preview: a 13-point series, ending higher. The screen, stage by stage: how many names survive each filterranking · 2026-09-15 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. Biggest stock losers of 2026: worst ten year to date among heavily traded namesranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, smallest first. The four major index ETFs, year to date, over the same measured windowseries · 2026-09-15 · 4×4Preview: a 4-point series, ending lower. Biggest stock gainers of 2026: top ten year to date among heavily traded namesranking · 2026-09-15 · 10×3Preview: 10 ranked values, largest first. Year-to-date breadth: how the screened universe is distributed across return bucketsranking · 2026-09-15 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first.
Stocks at 52-Week Highs and Lows
How far the whole screen sits below its 52-week highranking · 2026-09-15 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Stocks at 52-week lows, ordered by year-to-date returnranking · 2026-09-15 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. Where five broad-market ETFs sit inside their own 52-week rangeranking · 2026-09-15 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, smallest first. Stocks at 52-week highs, ordered by year-to-date returnranking · 2026-09-15 · 12×3Preview: 12 ranked values, smallest first. New 52-week highs against new lows, daily, over the past six weeksseries · 2026-09-15 · 30×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat.
What Replaced the PDT Rule? Intraday Margin
What 100 shares, one contract's deliverable, cost at the end of August 2026ranking · 2026-09-14 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Intraday high-to-low range as a share of the open, August 2026ranking · 2026-09-14 · 6×3Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. The five widest AAPL sessions of August 2026 for the same $5,000 accountranking · 2026-09-14 · 5×3Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. A $5,000 account holding $20,000 of AAPL from the open: loss and deficit at each session low, August 2026series · 2026-09-14 · 21×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower.
US Stocks 23/5 Trading: The December 2026 Plan
Extended-hours sale conditions defined on the taperanking · 2026-09-14 · 3×3Preview: 3 ranked values, smallest first.
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Every outright short selling ban since 2008, dated to the order that set it

Every outright short selling ban since 2008, dated to the order that set it

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Every outright short selling ban since 2008, dated to the order that set it — 9 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
jurisdictioninstrumentin_force_fromin_force_tocalendar_days
United States (SEC)Emergency Order, Release 34-585922008-09-192008-10-0820
Germany (BaFin)General decrees of 18 May 20102010-05-192011-03-31317
Spain (CNMV)SSR Article 202020-03-172020-05-1863
Austria (FMA)SSR Article 202020-03-182020-05-1862
Belgium (FSMA)SSR Article 202020-03-182020-05-1862
France (AMF)SSR Article 202020-03-182020-05-1862
Greece (HCMC)SSR Article 202020-03-182020-05-1862
Italy (CONSOB)SSR Article 202020-03-182020-05-1862
South Korea (FSC)FSC decision of 5 November 20232023-11-062025-03-30511
the exact SQL behind every number 
WITH bans AS
(
    SELECT 'United States (SEC)' AS jurisdiction, 'Emergency Order, Release 34-58592' AS instrument, '2008-09-19' AS in_force_from, '2008-10-08' AS in_force_to
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Germany (BaFin)', 'General decrees of 18 May 2010', '2010-05-19', '2011-03-31'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Spain (CNMV)', 'SSR Article 20', '2020-03-17', '2020-05-18'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Italy (CONSOB)', 'SSR Article 20', '2020-03-18', '2020-05-18'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'France (AMF)', 'SSR Article 20', '2020-03-18', '2020-05-18'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Belgium (FSMA)', 'SSR Article 20', '2020-03-18', '2020-05-18'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Austria (FMA)', 'SSR Article 20', '2020-03-18', '2020-05-18'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'Greece (HCMC)', 'SSR Article 20', '2020-03-18', '2020-05-18'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'South Korea (FSC)', 'FSC decision of 5 November 2023', '2023-11-06', '2025-03-30'
)
SELECT
    jurisdiction,
    instrument,
    in_force_from,
    in_force_to,
    dateDiff('day', toDate(in_force_from), toDate(in_force_to)) + 1 AS calendar_days
FROM bans
ORDER BY toDate(in_force_from), jurisdiction
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