Data and timing

The daily run

Every day at 04:00 UTC ByteTree's engine gathers the latest closing prices, recomputes every score, regime and statistic, and rebuilds the group figures and dashboards. When the run succeeds, bytetrend.io rebuilds with the new data.

ByteTrend is a daily-close system. For every asset type, the 04:00 UTC run scores the close of the day before: at that hour some Asian markets are already trading and the digital assets' UTC day is four hours old, and a price from a day still in progress is never stored. Today's close arrives with tomorrow's run.

• Stocks, ETFs and futures are scored on the days their markets trade. An asset whose market was closed keeps its last score until it trades again.
• FX is scored on Monday-to-Friday rates. Weekend rates are kept for currency conversion and repeat Friday's scores.
• Digital assets trade around the clock and are scored every calendar day, on each UTC day's close. Like every other asset, the 04:00 UTC run scores yesterday's close. Nearly all digital asset prices come from CoinDesk's CADLI index, which combines trading across many exchanges into one daily price that closes at 00:00 UTC and is final from then on. For those, a day's prices, scores and regimes normally don't change once they are published. Each run still re-checks the last three days, and would pick up the rare correction.

Reading the date stamps

data to 8 Oct close · updated 04:19 UTC

The status line on each dashboard: the last market close in the data, and the time (UTC) the dashboard's snapshot was built. Hover it for the full date.

Scored 9 Oct 2026

In the header of Geography & Sectors, and after the group count on the Trends pages: the date of the scoring run those group figures come from — a run on 9 Oct, scoring the 8 Oct close, reads 9 Oct. Winners and Losers stamp the date of the latest close their stocks carry instead, so the two can differ by a day with both fully up to date.

Built 9 Oct 2026, 08:34 UTC

In the site footer: when the pages were last rebuilt. It moves with every rebuild, including ones that bring no new data, so read the page's own stamp for the data date.

What changes less often

• Plan cuts, monthly. Which stocks, ETFs and digital assets fall inside the Free and Signed-up cuts — the largest by market cap — is refreshed once a month. See Plans and universes.
• ETF classification, monthly. Each ETF's asset class and exposure groups are reassessed once a month.
• Moving windows. The Weekly score's averages span up to 200 weeks, so a Weekly score moves slowly even though it is recomputed every day. See the windows.

Changes

16 October 2026 — Digital asset prices now from CoinDesk's CADLI index

Nearly all digital asset prices now come from CoinDesk's CADLI index, which combines trading across many exchanges into one daily price with a 00:00 UTC close. Its daily prices are final at the close, so for those a day's prices and scores normally don't change once published; the three-day re-check added on 16 October stays, to pick up the rare correction. Digital asset price histories have been reloaded from CADLI and their scores, regimes and statistics recomputed, so values and regimes have moved. Some histories now start later than before, at the asset's first CADLI price, and three dead or duplicated instruments — HFT, IPX and BIT — have been retired. Stocks, ETFs, futures and FX are unchanged.

16 October 2026 — Digital assets now scored on the previous day's close

Digital assets no longer carry a row for the current UTC day: their newest prices, scores and regimes are yesterday's, the same rule as every other asset. Each run also re-reads and rescores the last three days, so a day's digital prices and scores can be revised for up to two days after. Stocks, ETFs, futures and FX are unchanged.

14 October 2026 — Digital assets' Daily windows now 200 and 30 days

The Daily scores for digital assets now use 200- and 30-day moving averages and a 30-day regime window, in calendar days. They were 280 and 42 days. Every digital asset's Daily scores, regimes and Daily-window figures have been recomputed, and the recomputed values went live on 14 October, so Daily values and regimes have moved. Weekly scores, and every other asset's scores, are unchanged.

9 October 2026 — FX scores now use trading-day windows

ByteTrend scores for the 35 FX pairs are now computed over Monday-to-Friday rates only, so the windows count trading days: the Weekly averages span 200 and 30 weeks, the Daily ones 200 and 30 weekdays, and the 12-month return spans 252 weekdays (about 50 weeks). Previously weekend rows (Friday's rate carried forward) shortened every FX window by about two-sevenths — a "200-week" average covered roughly 143 weeks — and understated volatility. Every FX score, regime, trend age, return and volatility has been recomputed from 2005, so values and regimes have moved. Exchange rates themselves, and every other asset's scores, are unchanged.