fix: populate short interest cache directly instead of relying on clogged drain queue

The stale-while-revalidate pattern queues background fetches via the AdapterQueue,
but with 227+ pending jobs, short interest keys take too long to process.
Users saw empty panels on every symbol because the fetch never completed before
the response returned.

Fix:
- shortInterest procedure: when Yahoo + NASDAQ caches are both empty, fetch
  directly via the adapters, store in cache, and return — all within the request.
  Subsequent requests hit the cache. Bypasses the clogged queue entirely.
- FinraBulkAdapter: guard against per-symbol keys (non-'latest' and non-date IDs)
  by returning a skipped result instead of trying to download a file named
  after the ticker.
- finraShortInterest handler: return isStale=false when no data is in the table,
  so per-symbol reads never trigger queue fetches (FINRA is schedule-only).
  Router stale computation now excludes FINRA from the combined stale flag.

app/server/src/adapters/FinraBulkAdapter.ts

@@ -23,6 +23,17 @@ export class FinraBulkAdapter implements SourceFetch {
     const { kind, id } = parseCacheKey(key);
     if (kind !== 'finraShortinterest') throw new Error(`FinraBulkAdapter: unknown kind '${kind}'`);
 
+    // Only handle bulk-ingest keys ('latest' or explicit date).
+    // Per-symbol keys (e.g. 'AAPL') come from cache.get stale reads and
+    // must not trigger a bulk download — FINRA data is populated via schedule only.
+    if (id !== 'latest' && !/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/.test(id)) {
+      return {
+        value: { ok: true, skipped: true, reason: 'per-symbol key; FINRA is bulk-ingest only' },
+        ttlClass: 'short_interest',
+        provenance: { fetchedAt: new Date().toISOString(), sourceKind: 'finra-bulk', rawSourceId: id },
+      };
+    }
+
     const settlementDate = id === 'latest' ? this._guessSettlementDate() : id;
 
     const result = await downloadAndIngestFinra(this._db, settlementDate);

app/server/src/cache/CacheRepository.ts

@@ -340,7 +340,10 @@ const finraShortInterestHandler: KindHandler = {
   write(_d, _symbol, _value, _provenance) {
     // FINRA data is bulk-ingested via FinraIngestService; no per-symbol write needed.
   },
-  isStale(ts, now) { return tsAgeMs(ts, now) > TTL_MS.short_interest; },
+  isStale(ts, now) {
+    if (ts === null) return false; // schedule-only; never queue per-symbol fetches
+    return tsAgeMs(ts, now) > TTL_MS.short_interest;
+  },
 };
 
 const HANDLERS = new Map<string, KindHandler>([

app/server/src/trpc/router.ts

@@ -1928,10 +1928,33 @@ const institutionalRouter = router({
           ctx.cache.get<Record<string, unknown>>(`nasdaq:nasdaqShortinterest:${symbol}`),
           ctx.cache.get<Record<string, unknown>>(`finra-bulk:finraShortinterest:${symbol}`),
         ]);
-        const yf = yfEntry.value;
-        const ndq = ndqEntry.value;
+        let yf = yfEntry.value;
+        let ndq = ndqEntry.value;
         const fr = frEntry.value;
 
+        // Direct fetch when cache is empty — the drain queue can be clogged with
+        // hundreds of pending jobs, making stale-while-revalidate too slow.
+        if (!yf && !ndq) {
+          const { YFinanceAdapter } = await import('../adapters/YFinanceAdapter.ts');
+          const { NasdaqAdapter } = await import('../adapters/NasdaqAdapter.ts');
+          const results = await Promise.allSettled([
+            (async () => {
+              const ya = new YFinanceAdapter();
+              const r = await ya.fetchOne(`yfinance:shortinterest:${symbol}`);
+              await ctx.cache.set(`yfinance:shortinterest:${symbol}`, r.value, r.ttlClass, r.provenance);
+              return r.value as Record<string, unknown>;
+            })(),
+            (async () => {
+              const na = new NasdaqAdapter();
+              const r = await na.fetchOne(`nasdaq:nasdaqShortinterest:${symbol}`);
+              await ctx.cache.set(`nasdaq:nasdaqShortinterest:${symbol}`, r.value, r.ttlClass, r.provenance);
+              return r.value as Record<string, unknown>;
+            })(),
+          ]);
+          if (results[0].status === 'fulfilled') yf = results[0].value;
+          if (results[1].status === 'fulfilled') ndq = results[1].value;
+        }
+
         // Collect sharesShort from all sources for discrepancy detection
         const sharesSources: Array<{ source: string; sharesShort: number | null }> = [
           { source: 'finra', sharesShort: (fr?.shortVolume as number | undefined) ?? null },
@@ -1980,7 +2003,7 @@ const institutionalRouter = router({
             nasdaq: { available: !!ndq, stale: ndqEntry.isStale },
             finra: { available: !!fr, stale: frEntry.isStale },
           },
-          stale: yfEntry.isStale && ndqEntry.isStale && frEntry.isStale,
+          stale: yfEntry.isStale && ndqEntry.isStale, // FINRA is schedule-only, not per-symbol
         };
       }),
 });