About — mercatusdata
Who runs this site, how the report is produced, and how to reach the maintainer.
What this is
mercatusdata is a daily, facts-only market report covering currencies, precious metals, US stocks, crypto, energy and government bond yields. It is built and maintained by an independent developer as a one-person project, published under the site's own name rather than a personal one.
Why it exists
Most market commentary tells the reader what to think. This site does the opposite: it reports where each instrument sits against its own history — percentiles, ranges, positioning, and scheduled decision dates — and stops there. The selection and ordering surface what has reached a statistical limit; the reader supplies the judgment.
How it is produced
The report is generated by an automated pipeline that fetches raw data from official and public sources:
- prices, earnings dates and dividends via Yahoo Finance
- backup equity prices via Twelve Data
- rates, yields and other macro series via the US Federal Reserve (FRED), the ECB Data Portal, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Ministry of Finance Japan (under Japan's Public Data License 1.0), the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England (under the Open Government Licence v3.0)
- the official cash rate via the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (© Reserve Bank of New Zealand)
- the SNB policy rate via the Swiss National Bank (data.snb.ch)
- natural gas storage via the US Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- positioning via the CFTC
- short interest and short volume via FINRA
- company filings, shares outstanding and sector-fund holdings via SEC EDGAR
- central-bank schedules from each bank
- BLS release schedules
- auction schedules via the US Treasury
Yahoo Finance is a widely used but unofficial feed; the official LBMA metal fixings are logged as an independent cross-check, not as the reported price. The pipeline stores only raw values, and recomputes every derived figure from scratch on every run. No figure is hand-edited, and no generative model writes or alters the numbers. The full method — indicator definitions, percentile windows, source list, and timing conventions — is published on the Methodology page.
When it updates
The site updates daily. An automated run is scheduled shortly after midnight UTC, and from Monday to Saturday a second run a few hours later can bring crypto up to its latest complete day; when the build service is busy a run can start a few hours later, never earlier. Each section reports its latest settled session: the previous trading day for stocks, currencies, metals and energy, and the latest complete UTC day for crypto, which trades every day. Government bond yields are one session further back, because the official US Treasury figures are published a day later; the other markets' yields are read as of the same date, so they compare day for day. A market whose figures arrive later, as the UK's usually do, is marked as behind. Every page states the date its figures are as of.
Corrections and revisions
Raw data is stored permanently; when a provider revises a previously published figure, the stored series records the revision date and the next run recomputes everything from the corrected data. The stable per-instrument pages always show the latest run; dated pages show what was published on a given day and are kept for each section's newest 7 reference dates. Errors in the report's own logic are fixed in code and apply from the next run forward. To report one, use the address under Contact.
What this site is not
It does not forecast, recommend or advise. No signals, no trade ideas, no paid promotions, no sponsored content. Every page is free to read in full, with no account, paywall or paid tier. The site-wide disclaimer in the footer applies to every page, including this one.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or data problems: mercatusdata@gmail.com · Bluesky · Telegram