Days to Cover

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Access a key metric used to evaluate short interest pressure on a security. Days to Cover (DTC) provides an estimate of how many trading days it would take, based on average daily volume, for all short positions to be covered (i.e., bought back).

Available Data Points:

  • Date: Date for the Days to Cover data. (YYYY-MM-DD format).
  • Days To Cover: An estimate of the number of trading days it would take to buy back all shares currently sold short, based on average daily volume.

Try it out! You can test the API with the trial key TEST. Simply include it in your request headers; either here, or add the header "Ortex-Api-Key": "TEST" to your http request.

Trial key restrictions: Trial keys may be limited to a specific date range and set of regions. Requests outside the allowed regions or entirely outside the allowed date range are rejected; a date window that partially overlaps the allowed range is trimmed to it, reported in meta.restriction.

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Path Params
string
required

Exchange symbol (e.g. "nyse", "nasdaq"), MIC code (e.g. "xnys", "xnas") or two character ISO country code (e.g "us", "ca" for ALL country exchanges)

string
required

Ticker symbol

Query Params
string
enum
Defaults to json

Response format. "json" (default) or "csv".

Allowed:
date
required

Inclusive start of the returned date window. Format: YYYY-MM-DD.

integer

Page number within the paginated result set. Must be >= 1. Defaults to 1.

integer

Number of rows per page. The default and the maximum allowed depend on the API tier; values above the tier maximum are clamped down to it.

string
enum
Defaults to 3m

Period over which the average volume is calculated. Can be '1w', '2w' '1m', '3m'. Default is '3m'.

Allowed:
date

Inclusive end of the returned date window (defaults to today). Format: YYYY-MM-DD.

Headers
string
enum
Defaults to application/json

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Allowed:
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