Data categories

What powers Tapeline.

The data categories Tapeline reads from, the surface area where each one appears, and the refresh cadence. No black boxes, no “proprietary data” vague-speak.

The Tapeline composite score and the per-factor sub-scores are computed via the published six-factor methodology at /how-it-works. Those numbers are Tapeline’s analytical output — derived through transformation, not redistributed from any single source. The list below covers the underlying input categories.

Market data
Market data
What it’s used for
- ·Equity + ETF prices, OHLC bars, volumes
- ·Trend and relative-strength calculations
- ·Heatmap tile sizing (dollar-volume weighted)
- ·Auto-discovery of the active US ticker universe
Where it appears
Every ticker price, every chart, every percentage change, the heatmap tiles, the scanner table.
Refresh cadence
Prices are delayed about 15 minutes. Tapeline re-reads them for every covered stock and ETF about every 60 seconds during US market hours, and less often around deploys. Daily OHLC bars (used for trend and relative strength) are read about once a day.
Fundamentals
Market data
What it’s used for
- ·Per-ticker financial ratios (P/E, ROE, margins)
- ·Revenue and EPS growth
- ·Debt / equity, balance sheet health
- ·Company classification (sector backfill)
Where it appears
The Financials tab on every ticker page and the Fundamentals sub-factor in the score breakdown.
Refresh cadence
Refreshed on company filing cadence.
Macro indicators
Public record
What it’s used for
- ·10-year Treasury yield, DXY US Dollar Index, VIX
- ·Rate-direction classification (RISING / FALLING / SIDEWAYS)
- ·Inputs to the Macro sub-factor
Where it appears
The Regime tile on every dashboard page. The Macro sub-factor on every ticker. The Fear & Greed composite on /app/regime.
Refresh cadence
Daily readings: the VIX, 10-year yield and dollar index are end-of-day series, so the regime and Macro sub-factor usually change at most once a day.
SEC filings
Public record
What it’s used for
- ·Form 4 insider transactions (buys, sales, vesting)
- ·8-K material event filings (M&A, restatements, executive changes)
- ·CIK-to-ticker mapping
Where it appears
Recent insider buys feed at /app/holdings. Breaking-news bar 8-K alerts on dashboards.
Refresh cadence
Form 4 read from SEC EDGAR, re-checked about every two days per stock (ETFs and other non-stocks about monthly). 8-Ks every 5 minutes.
Congressional disclosures (not available)
What it’s used for
- ·Nothing today
Where it appears
None. We don't currently have a real source of congressional trade disclosures, so we don't show any, and none feed the score.
Refresh cadence
Not applicable.
News wire
Market data
What it’s used for
- ·Cashtag-tagged headlines per ticker
- ·Sentiment-tagged headlines for the breaking-news bar
Where it appears
News bar on every dashboard page. Per-ticker news section on the ticker detail page.
Refresh cadence
Every ~5 minutes.
Analyst ratings
Market data
What it’s used for
- ·Consensus tally (Buy / Hold / Sell)
Where it appears
Analyst Ratings widget on Premium ticker pages. Not folded into the score — displayed as descriptive context only. Per-firm rating events and price targets are not on Tapeline's current data plan and are not shown.
Refresh cadence
Cached 12 hours per ticker.

Transparency note

Tapeline reads from several categories of market and reference data, transforms it through a 6-factor scoring formula, and surfaces the result. The categories above describe what each input is used for and where it appears in the product. Where Tapeline displays a number that came directly from an upstream feed (a price, a P/E ratio, an analyst rating), the displayed value is the upstream value at the time of the most recent refresh. Where Tapeline displays its own derived metric (the composite score, the sub-scores, the signal label, the plain-English "why" sentence), that's Tapeline's own analytical output computed via the published six-factor methodology at /how-it-works (the six factors are named there, along with which carry the most weight). Tapeline is not a registered investment adviser. Everything on the platform is descriptive analytics — see /legal/risk for the full disclosure.

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