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Reading Daily Wrap
Follow the day's market character, breadth and activity, then check the tables behind the story.
Last updated: 2026-09-20
Seven voices, one set of facts
Daily Wrap turns a completed MockTradeCity trading day into a readable account of what happened. Seven fictional English-language outlets rotate through the writing role: City Business TV, Night Owl Radio, The Floor Wire, The Corner Tavern, The Quant Gazette, Market 101 and The Morning Brief. Their voices differ, from a broadcast or short bulletin to a late-night conversation, a numbers desk or a lesson built around one market concept.
The underlying data does not change with the narrator. Each account uses the day's available Composite figures, company moves, breadth, trading activity, sector averages and public news. Style can change the opening, order and phrasing without adding an event that the data does not contain. These outlets belong to the fictional city. They are not external reporters verifying real securities or publishing instructions about what a player is meant to trade next.
The day's character sets the order
The writing system classifies the day before arranging the story. Its categories include a large index advance or decline, a broad advance or decline, one-stock activity, a news-heavy session, a wide reversal, a quiet day and a mixed result. The classifier evaluates its conditions in a defined order. A day can have several interesting features while receiving one primary label that determines which part of the account appears first.
This explains why the same outlet may lead with a company one week and the Composite another week. A nearly unchanged index alongside an unusually large company move calls for different emphasis from a session when most companies move together. The classification describes the available day's record, not a forecast for the next session. The tables remain available below the prose, so the framing can be checked against the actual figures it selected.
Breadth complements the Composite
Breadth counts advancing, declining, unchanged and untraded companies under the recap's definitions. It answers how widely movement was shared. The City Composite instead weights companies by float capitalization. A higher index with only half the traded companies advancing describes a different distribution from a higher index with nearly every company advancing. The two results can coexist because one counts companies and the other measures a weighted basket of their values.
Untraded companies require separate attention. A company without a qualifying execution does not supply the same evidence as a company that traded and finished unchanged. The recap keeps those concepts distinct. Turnover then adds the amount of fictional CC exchanged across the day. Breadth, index change and activity jointly describe participation and concentration, while none on its own reveals every trader's intention or establishes what the same companies will do tomorrow.
Leaders, ranges and news answer different questions
The prose highlights leading percentage moves and prominent turnover, while the supporting rankings show more companies for comparison. The largest absolute daily change need not belong to the company with the widest intraday range. One measure compares the ending price with previous close; the other compares the day's high and low. A company can travel widely and return close to its reference, leaving a small final change after a busy day.
Sector averages give equal per-company weight within each group, unlike the Composite's capitalization weighting. News is organized by company, sector and wider market scope. Placing these alongside price changes makes the sequence and context visible, but does not prove that one headline caused every nearby execution. Market 101 can use the day's figures to explain a term such as turnover or previous close without converting the explanation into a trading instruction.
Where to read and verify in the city
The Daily Wrap index lists available dates. Opening a date presents the named outlet's story, followed by the Composite block, company rankings, sector comparisons and relevant news. Links connect named companies to their pages, and date navigation moves between recaps. The trading day uses New York time. A recap is a completed historical view, whereas a company page opened from it may now show a later live session with different prices.
The index block labels historical limitations where needed, including older Composite closes reconstructed from company history without observed intraday extremes. That qualification prevents an absent high or low from being mistaken for a flat day. The Market page supplies the current broad view, and company charts supply the relevant historical intervals. Reading the date, session and reference before comparing figures keeps the narrative grounded in the same records, with every price and news event remaining part of the fictional city.