Most Shorted Stocks Right Now, Measured
The receipts: universe size, filter bite, median crowding, and list churn at the latest printscalar ·
2026-10-08 · 1×522,593
Largest short positions by shares: latest settlement, liquid namesranking ·
2026-10-08 · 10×4
Crowding leaders vs. their own price: about one month of sessionsseries ·
2026-10-08 · 5×5
GME through the January 2021 squeeze: the same three columns, settlement by settlementseries ·
2026-10-08 · 10×4
Today's top-3 crowding leaders, traced back eight settlementsseries ·
2026-10-08 · 8×4
Biggest days-to-cover increases, latest settlement vs. the prior printranking ·
2026-10-08 · 8×4
Highest days to cover among liquid names: latest settlement on filetable ·
2026-10-08 · 10×5
Unusual Volume Stocks This Week, Measured
How the whole qualifying universe traded this week, bucketed by relative volumeranking ·
2026-10-06 · 7×4
Persistence check: the eight leaders' daily relative volume across the five sessionstable ·
2026-10-06 · 8×5
Highest relative volume this week: trailing 5 sessions vs. the prior 40, for names trading $500M+ in the weekseries ·
2026-10-06 · 8×6
The board leader, day by day: daily relative volume and open-to-close change (last 15 sessions)series ·
2026-10-06 · 15×5
Wild multiples the dollar floor removes: highest relative volume among names trading under $500M this weekseries ·
2026-10-06 · 6×5
Highest Days to Cover Stocks Right Now
The receipts: file size, liquid names, thin names, and the liquid medianscalar ·
2026-09-26 · 1×522,593
Highest days to cover among liquid names: 5M average-volume floorranking ·
2026-09-26 · 12×4
Today's liquid top-3 days-to-cover names, traced back eight settlementsseries ·
2026-09-26 · 8×4
Highest days to cover, latest settlement: 500k average-volume floortable ·
2026-09-26 · 12×5
Days to cover by liquidity band: median stays low, the extremes live in thin namesranking ·
2026-09-26 · 5×4
The receipts: universe size, filter bite, median crowding, and list churn at the latest print
The receipts: universe size, filter bite, median crowding, and list churn at the latest print
tickers reported
22,593
liquid tickers
693
liquid median dtc
2.2
dtc top10 repeats
6
size top10 min dtc
2.6
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH dates AS (
SELECT DISTINCT settlement_date AS d
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
ORDER BY d DESC
LIMIT 2
),
top10_dtc_latest AS (
SELECT ticker FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates) AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
AND days_to_cover IS NOT NULL AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
ORDER BY days_to_cover DESC, ticker LIMIT 10
),
top10_dtc_prior AS (
SELECT ticker FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT min(d) FROM dates) AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
AND days_to_cover IS NOT NULL AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
ORDER BY days_to_cover DESC, ticker LIMIT 10
),
size10_latest AS (
SELECT ticker, days_to_cover FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates) AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
AND short_interest IS NOT NULL AND ticker NOT IN ('SPCX')
ORDER BY short_interest DESC, ticker LIMIT 10
)
SELECT
(SELECT count() FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates)) AS tickers_reported,
(SELECT count() FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates) AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000) AS liquid_tickers,
(SELECT round(quantileDeterministic(0.5)(days_to_cover, cityHash64(ticker)), 1)
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(d) FROM dates) AND avg_daily_volume >= 5000000
AND days_to_cover IS NOT NULL) AS liquid_median_dtc,
(SELECT count() FROM top10_dtc_latest
WHERE ticker IN (SELECT ticker FROM top10_dtc_prior)) AS dtc_top10_repeats,
(SELECT round(min(days_to_cover), 1) FROM size10_latest) AS size_top10_min_dtc
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