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Can You Buy a Put Without Owning Stock?
Days to cover on the latest reported short interestranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×2Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. One put contract versus the 100 shares it coverstable · 2026-10-04 · 5×5 AAPL put ladder: debit, delta and breakeven by strikeranking · 2026-10-04 · 8×4Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. Overnight gaps across a year of daily barsranking · 2026-10-04 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first.
How to Get Approved for Options Trading
The same short put as a five-point credit spread in a margin account (June 12, 2026 close, July 17 expiry)table · 2026-09-17 · 9×9 Selling one SPY put in a cash account: premium collected vs. cash held (June 12, 2026 close, July 17 expiry)table · 2026-09-17 · 9×5
The 3-5-7 Rule in Options, Examined
One-day move profile, seven household names, July 2025 to June 2026table · 2026-08-15 · 7×6 S&P 500 tracker (SPY): down sessions by calendar year, 2016 to mid-2026table · 2026-08-15 · 11×5 Worst five-session stretch and deepest in-window drawdown, July 2025 to June 2026ranking · 2026-08-15 · 7×4Preview: 7 ranked values, smallest first.
What Are Put Options?
One SPY $740 put vs the stock's distance from the strike (expired Jun 18 2026)series · 2026-08-13 · 31×3Preview: a 16-point series, ending lower. The same put at SPY's June peak vs its June troughseries · 2026-08-13 · 2×6Preview: a 2-point series, ending lower. The SPY put's delta stayed negative through its whole lifeseries · 2026-08-13 · 31×2Preview: a 16-point series, ending higher.
How to Read an Option Chain, Column by Column
Where the trading happened: SPY contract volume by strike, August 21 2026 expiry, July 15 2026ranking · 2026-07-31 · 8×3Preview: 8 ranked values, smallest first. Median quoted bid and ask by strike: SPY calls expiring August 21 2026, regular session of July 15 2026table · 2026-07-31 · 7×5 Implied volatility by strike: SPY options expiring August 21 2026, as of July 15 2026ranking · 2026-07-31 · 11×3Preview: 11 ranked values, largest first. SPY option volume by time to expiration, July 15 2026ranking · 2026-07-31 · 5×4Preview: 5 ranked values, largest first. One expiration of the SPY chain: closing prices and delta by strike, August 21 2026 expiry, as of July 15 2026table · 2026-07-31 · 8×6
Days to cover on the latest reported short interest

Days to cover on the latest reported short interest

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Days to cover on the latest reported short interest — 5 rows by 2 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
symboldays_to_cover
MSFT3.73
AAPL2.85
KO2.79
NVDA2.55
SPY2.46
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SELECT
    ticker                                          AS symbol,
    round(argMax(days_to_cover, settlement_date), 2) AS days_to_cover
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'KO', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'SPY')
  AND settlement_date >= today() - 120
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY days_to_cover DESC
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