Daily Dispatch
The morning's written market summary in four segments, Fed Watch, Rates Desk, Volatility and Options, under one dated masthead.
What it answers
The Daily Dispatch is a written summary of what changed in the markets the site tracks. Below the masthead it shows four segments, always in this order:
- Fed Watch: money-market spreads, the policy path, economic releases, credit spreads and the Fed balance sheet, from the Macro Board and Monetary Plumbing.
- Rates Desk: the Treasury curve on the Macro Board, covering yields, curve slopes, the 5s10s30s butterfly and the 10-year breakeven.
- Volatility: term structure, the VIX basis, VRP, implied against historical volatility and the Volatility Board, across the index, megacap and sector ETF symbols.
- Options: the options flow, straddle, volatility smile, implied distribution and screened cards, with the day's curated straddles.
An AI writer drafts each segment from the same day's widget data. A second AI pass checks the text against that data before the segment is published.
How to read it
- 1The masthead shows DAILY DISPATCH and the date of the data that the daily run used.
- 2Each segment starts with its fixed heading. Fed Watch is first.
- 3The segment's text follows in paragraphs, below a short headline if the segment has one.
- 4A segment that the daily run did not publish shows
No dispatch published for this segment today. - 5Options is the fourth heading. The same text appears at the top of Options Dispatch.
The Daily Dispatch displays each segment's text as written, split into paragraphs at blank lines. Daily Dispatch adds no text of its own. Each number in a paragraph comes from another widget. Open that widget to see the number on its own scale.
Links
Some names in the text are links to a ticker, a series or a section of a widget. Click a link, or press Enter or Space on it, to scroll the linked widget into view or add it to the page. A link changes nothing else on screen.
Scope
The Daily Dispatch reports what the other widgets show. It is not advice: it does not give probabilities or say what to trade. The Options segment lists curated straddles; the cards are in Options Dispatch.
Update schedule
The data updates once a day before the open, at 00:15 UTC, Tuesday to Saturday, with a retry at 00:30 New York time. The Daily Dispatch is written at 07:45 UTC on the same days. It describes the previous trading day, which is the date on the masthead. A missed run is not written later. The Daily Dispatch shows only the latest run's segments.
Controls
- Board / Ticker: the mode chips. Board is the default and shows the masthead and four segments.
- Ticker scrolls one line per published segment, as
Fed Watch: headline. - A segment with no headline scrolls its full text.
- Unpublished segments do not appear in Ticker mode, and Ticker lines have no links.
- Slow / Med / Fast: the speed choice in the widget menu, shown in Ticker mode only.
Neither control changes the text.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| mode | Board or Ticker layout |
| speed | ticker speed, Ticker mode only |
Use it with
- Options Dispatch shows the Options segment above the cards that the segment describes.
- The Macro Board and the Volatility Board show the numbers that Fed Watch, Rates Desk and Volatility describe.