Using the platform
Data and timing
ByteTrend runs once a day, on closing prices. Here is when, what each page's date stamp means, and what changes less often than daily.
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 stocks, ETFs and futures, the 04:00 UTC run scores the close of the day before: at that hour some Asian markets are already trading, and a price from a session 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 on a UTC day, and are scored every calendar day. The run also picks up the current day's price, four hours into the UTC day, so the tables and security pages score digital assets on that running price until the next run settles the day. The dashboards use only completed days.
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
- 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.