About This Publication

What is The Daily Tape?

The Daily Tape is the website of the Neeley Equity Research Club, a student equity research club at TCU's Neeley School of Business organized into sector "pods." Every sector brief and the homepage's Today's Brief are generated automatically, without a club member writing or reviewing them before they're published.

Pod content still lives in one plain Markdown file per pod, with no CMS, admin panel, or database — a club member can still curate a pod by editing its file directly (flagging a "Securities to Note" list, pinning a pod to the top of the homepage), the automated pipeline just handles the daily writing.

How it works

A scheduled job runs every trading morning, about an hour before the market opens. It checks the NYSE holiday calendar, pulls S&P 500 / Dow / Nasdaq levels (via the SPY, DIA, and QQQ ETFs that track them), the real 10-year Treasury yield, and news headlines to write Today's Brief, and separately pulls recent news for a few representative tickers in each sector and asks an AI model to write that pod's brief from it. Everything is committed straight to this site's repository, which triggers an automatic rebuild.

The same job scans every pod's "Securities to Note" list and fetches a live quote for each ticker flagged there.

There's no VIX figure on this site — no free data source gives the real index value, and showing an approximation (like a VIX futures ETF) would be more misleading than not showing one at all.

Data sources

Disclaimer

The Daily Tape is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Both the homepage market summary and every sector brief are generated automatically and may contain errors, omissions, or outdated information. Always consult a licensed financial advisor before making investment decisions. Market data may be delayed.