MDA — structural market context
Structural market context from public regulatory and market data, shown with its as-of dates. Descriptive only: nothing on this page is a recommendation, a prediction, or advice to buy or sell any security.
What changed
As of the close on Oct 21. Each line shows the earlier value, the later value and their dates.
Close $28.72 (Oct 21) vs $27.57 (Oct 20): +4.17%.
0.72× its 20-session average (1.9M) on Oct 21.
Includes pre- and post-market trading.
Short interest 4.9M shares (settlement Sep 30) vs 4.4M (Sep 15).
No new publication in this window. Latest: settlement Sep 30, published Oct 10.
Latest file (settlements Sep 15–Sep 30, published Oct 16): 9 days with fails, largest 285K shares on Sep 30.
Previous file (settlements Sep 1–Sep 14, published Sep 30): 5 days with fails, largest 59K shares on Sep 11.
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MDA events and their magnitude
MDA short interest & days to cover
FINRA consolidated short interest, reported twice a month and published ~2 weeks after each settlement date. % of float uses reported free float. · as of 2026-09-30 (22d ago)
MDA fails-to-deliver (FTD)
SEC fails-to-deliver files, published twice a month with ~6 weeks of delay.
MDA analyst ratings
Rating actions as published by the firms, from public feeds. They are not graded here.
Frequently asked questions
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MDA: the full history
Latest rows shown. Full history, market-wide screens, cluster detection and the context journal live in the dashboard.
Not financial advice. Trading involves risk. Descriptive structural context, never a recommendation.