Data sources
Every figure on Take Profits comes from a named public source and is refreshed on a schedule. When a source is unavailable we show nothing rather than an estimate. This list is checked automatically every 10 minutes.
| Data | Source | Updates | Last updated | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. stock prices, changes, volume and ranges | Yahoo Finance chart data (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes in market hours (top 200), hourly for every listing, every 15 minutes in extended hours | Delayed | |
| ASX stock prices, changes, volume and ranges | Yahoo Finance chart data (CODE.AX) (opens in a new tab) | Every 15 minutes in ASX hours (top 200), all listings three times a day | Current | |
| ASX-listed companies (code, name, industry group, listing date, market cap) | ASX company directory (opens in a new tab) | Each weekday at 07:30 Sydney time | Current | |
| Shares outstanding, market cap, sector and industry | Nasdaq stock screener (opens in a new tab) | Weekdays at 6:30 AM ET | Current | |
| Average volume, P/E, dividends paid in the last 12 months, yield and beta | Nasdaq quote summaries (volume, P/E); Yahoo Finance monthly history (dividends, beta) (opens in a new tab) | Hourly overnight, 8:00 PM to 8:00 AM ET (every listing each night) | Current | |
| U.S. diluted EPS (trailing four quarters, or the latest fiscal year) | SEC EDGAR XBRL company concepts (opens in a new tab) | Nightly at 9:15 PM ET, 400 listings (each about weekly) | Current | |
| ASX daily price history (about 13 months), with the 52-week range and average volume worked out from it | Yahoo Finance daily chart (CODE.AX) (opens in a new tab) | Weekdays after the ASX close: hourly from 5:40 PM Sydney time until the session's run is complete | Current | |
| ASX EPS, P/E, shares on issue and the latest declared dividend with its franking | ASX company key statistics (opens in a new tab) | Weekdays at 7:10 PM Sydney time (every listing each run) | Current | |
| Reasons for the largest moves | Google News headlines, SEC EDGAR filings, Nasdaq earnings calendar (opens in a new tab) | Every 10 minutes, 9:40 AM to 8:00 PM ET on weekdays | Current | |
| Coin prices, market caps and volumes (top 250) | CoinGecko (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes | Current | |
| S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Dow levels | Yahoo Finance chart data (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes | Current | |
| Market headlines | CNBC and MarketWatch RSS feeds (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes (feeds cached 10 minutes) | Current | |
| Analyst ratings and price targets | Nasdaq analyst research (opens in a new tab) | When a stock page is viewed | Current | |
| Pre-market trades | Nasdaq extended trading (opens in a new tab) | Every 10 minutes, 4:00 to 9:30 AM ET on weekdays | Current | |
| After-hours trades | Nasdaq extended trading (opens in a new tab) | Every 10 minutes, 4:00 to 8:00 PM ET on weekdays | Current | |
| Latest Form 4 insider transactions | SEC EDGAR Form 4 (opens in a new tab) | Every 10 minutes, 6:00 AM to 10:30 PM ET on weekdays | Current | |
| Completed price scans | Take Profits scan log (stock:unified-update) (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes in market hours | Current | |
| Global index levels | Yahoo Finance chart data (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes | Current | |
| MOEX Russia and MSCI Emerging Markets closing levels | Moscow Exchange ISS and MSCI end-of-day index levels (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes (each provider publishes one close per trading day) | Current | |
| Commodity prices | Yahoo Finance front-month futures; Guangzhou Futures Exchange settlements for lithium carbonate; FRED for retail gasoline and nickel (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes | Current | |
| Currency rates for search, watchlists and alerts | Yahoo Finance currency data (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes | Current | |
| ECB reference exchange rates | European Central Bank via Frankfurter (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes (the ECB publishes once per working day) | Current | |
| Visitor country from the IP address (country only) | IP geolocation by DB-IP (IP to Country Lite, CC BY 4.0) (opens in a new tab) | Monthly (DB-IP publishes a new file at the start of each month) | Current | |
| Holiday lists for HKEX, Shanghai, Shenzhen, KRX, TWSE, NSE, Tadawul and ADX | Each exchange’s published holiday calendar, kept by hand in resources/market-hours/holidays (opens in a new tab) | Monthly (3rd of the month): compares the stored lists with the published calendars; a person updates the lists | Current | |
| Central bank policy rates | Federal Reserve (FRED), ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, RBA and SNB statistics; Bank of Japan and RBNZ via the BIS policy-rate series (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes (published when rates are set or observed) | Delayed | |
| Latest index levels and Treasury yields stored for watchlists and alerts | Yahoo Finance chart data (indices); FRED (Treasury yields) (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes, whenever the provider returns a value | Current | |
| U.S. Treasury yields | FRED (U.S. Treasury constant-maturity yields) (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes (published daily) | Delayed | |
| Economic releases | Nasdaq economic calendar (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes | Current | |
| Dividend payment history for listings held in portfolios | Yahoo Finance chart dividend events (opens in a new tab) | Hourly run; each held listing re-checked about daily | — | Unavailable |
| Declared dividends for listings held in portfolios | Nasdaq dividend calendar (US); ASX company key statistics (ASX) (opens in a new tab) | Nasdaq calendar every 4 hours; ASX about daily | — | Unavailable |
| EPS, dividends paid and free cash flow for US listings held in portfolios | SEC company facts (opens in a new tab) | Each held US listing weekly | — | Unavailable |
| Benchmark index daily closes for portfolio comparisons | Yahoo Finance chart data (^AXJO, ^AXJT, ^GSPC, ^SP500TR, ^FTSE, ^N225, ^GSPTSE) (opens in a new tab) | Twice a day (09:20 and 19:20 Sydney), and when a portfolio page needs a missing range | — | Unavailable |
| Daily reference exchange rates (AUD against each currency portfolios use) for portfolio transactions | Frankfurter (central bank reference rates) (opens in a new tab) | Twice a day (09:20 and 19:20 Sydney), and when a portfolio page needs a missing range | — | Unavailable |
| Dividend calendar | Nasdaq dividend calendar (opens in a new tab) | Every 5 minutes | Current | |
| US economic indicators (inflation, rates, jobs, GDP, financial stress) | FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), keyless graph CSV (opens in a new tab) | Twice daily, 10:15 AM and 6:15 PM ET | Current | |
| Australian economic indicators (inflation, rates, jobs, GDP, financial stress) | RBA statistical tables (CSV) and the ABS Data API (opens in a new tab) | Twice daily, 12:45 PM and 6:45 PM Sydney time | Current | |
| Fed funds futures implied rate path | Yahoo Finance (CBOT 30-Day Federal Funds futures) (opens in a new tab) | Every 30 minutes, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Chicago time on weekdays | Current | |
| ETF list (US and ASX funds) | Nasdaq Trader symbol directory and SEC fund ticker file (US); ASX Investment Products report (ASX) (opens in a new tab) | US list each weekday at 6:45 AM ET; ASX report checked each weekday, published monthly | Current | |
| ETF holdings, net assets and breakdowns | SEC EDGAR Form N-PORT reports (NPORT-P) (opens in a new tab) | Hourly batches, each fund checked weekly; reports are quarterly, public about 60 days after the quarter | Current | |
| ETF expense ratios | SEC Mutual Fund Prospectus Risk/Return Summary data sets (opens in a new tab) | Weekly; the SEC publishes the data sets quarterly | Current | |
| ETF distributions and trailing yields | Yahoo Finance chart data (distribution events) (opens in a new tab) | Hourly batches, each fund about every three days | Current | |
| ETF prices | Yahoo Finance chart data (opens in a new tab) | Hourly in US market hours (US funds); three times each ASX trading day (ASX funds) | Delayed | |
| Links from ETF holdings to stock pages (CUSIP to symbol) | SEC fails-to-deliver data (opens in a new tab) | Weekly; the SEC publishes two files a month | Current | |
| Instrument registry (search, header suggestions and instrument pickers) | The site's stock directory (SEC and ASX company lists), ETF list (Nasdaq Trader, ASX), coin list (CoinGecko) and its index, currency, commodity and Treasury catalogues (opens in a new tab) | Hourly at :25 | Current | |
| Tesla filings, results and announcements | SEC EDGAR and Tesla Investor Relations (opens in a new tab) | Every 15 minutes | Current | |
| Independent check of every Tesla page value | SEC company facts, SEC Form 4, Nasdaq (opens in a new tab) | Hourly | Unavailable |
Providers
How each outside provider has answered over the last 24 hours. We pace our requests to every provider and pause calls to one that keeps failing, so a problem shows here as a pause rather than as wrong figures.