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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.
Warren Buffett's Index Put Trade Explained
Two index tracking funds, rebased to 100 at their first year in the recordranking · 2026-09-30 · 22×3Preview: 16 ranked values, smallest first. Every 15 year stretch in the SPY record, by finishing levelranking · 2026-09-30 · 4×4Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. Berkshire annual reported net income against operating cash flow ($bn)series · 2026-09-30 · 10×4Preview: a 10-point series, roughly flat.
Buying Puts vs Buying Calls: Why Puts Cost More
The 25-delta wing spread on SPY, month by monthseries · 2026-09-30 · 24×4Preview: a 16-point series, roughly flat. SPY implied volatility at equal distance out of the money, puts against callsranking · 2026-09-30 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, smallest first. Realised volatility inside SPY months, grouped by that month's returnranking · 2026-09-30 · 4×3Preview: 4 ranked values, largest first. At-the-money put minus call at the identical strike, six large capsranking · 2026-09-30 · 6×4Preview: 6 ranked values, largest first. Break-even move required on 5% out-of-the-money SPY puts and callsranking · 2026-09-30 · 4×4Preview: 4 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.
Protective Puts: Portfolio Insurance
The SPY $740 put's value over its final weeks (expired Jun 18 2026)series · 2026-07-16 · 11×2Preview: a 11-point series, roughly flat. 100 SPY shares alone vs. the same shares with one $740 put held against themseries · 2026-07-16 · 11×3Preview: a 11-point series, ending lower. The SPY $760 call you could sell to finance the put (early June 2026)series · 2026-07-16 · 5×2Preview: a 5-point series, ending lower.
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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