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Additional_Bed_3195 t1_j6gkm7c wrote

Average days too cover is directly related to the outstanding shares sold short and the corresponding daily volume on a single stock. So if 1 million shares are sold short and the average volume of that stock is 100k. Short days to cover is calculated at 10

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Silent_nutsack t1_j6jnrwx wrote

Yeah I never understood why this days to cover metric became a thing here. Daily vol isn’t a static value, too many moving parts in the formula IMO

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