Briefings & Watchlist Digests

Schedule personal watchlist digests and white-label community briefings, delivered before the open and after the close on every NYSE trading day.

A digest is a scheduled market summary that ApexTick builds and delivers for you. There are two kinds:

#Endpoints

#Schedules

Digests are delivered on NYSE trading days in two slots:

• Omit schedules to receive both slots.
• Weekends and full-day NYSE holidays are skipped automatically. Early-close days still receive both slots.
• Each digest is delivered exactly once per date and slot.
• These are the only two slots; there is no separate daily or weekly schedule. For a once-a-day digest, choose one slot.

The 11 sector ETFs are XLK, XLV, XLF, XLY, XLP, XLE, XLI, XLB, XLU, XLRE and XLC.

#Create a digest

A white-label community briefing to Discord:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.apextick.com/v1/digests" \
  -H "apikey: $APEXTICK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "kind": "community",
    "name": "Alpha Traders daily",
    "brand_name": "Alpha Traders",
    "schedules": ["premarket", "close"],
    "channel": "discord",
    "target": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/123/abc"
  }'

A personal watchlist digest by email, after the close only:

{
  "kind": "watchlist",
  "name": "Core holdings",
  "symbols": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA", "BTC-USD"],
  "schedules": ["close"],
  "channel": "email",
  "target": "[email protected]"
}

#Request fields

Using accent_color, footer or sections on a plan without custom layout returns 403. So does creating more digests of a kind than your plan includes; the body includes your limit. For webhook digests the 201 response includes a signing_secret, returned only once.

#Delivery formats

The same digest is rendered natively for each channel:

Long tables are trimmed automatically to fit Discord's and Telegram's message limits.

#Webhook delivery

Webhook digests POST the full digest document, the same JSON that preview returns, with these headers:

Verify it exactly like an alert webhook.

#Preview

Builds the digest from current data without sending it. Pass slot=premarket or slot=close; by default you get the closing digest after 12:00 ET and the pre-market briefing before.

{
  "type": "digest",
  "digest_id": "a3f0c7d2-91b4-4e0f-8c6a-2d7e5b1f9c08",
  "kind": "community",
  "slot": "close",
  "title": "Alpha Traders Closing Bell Digest · Fri Oct 16, 2026",
  "brand": "Alpha Traders",
  "generated_at": "2026-10-16T20:30:00Z",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Sector Performance",
      "columns": ["Sector", "ETF", "Chg %"],
      "rows": [["Technology", "XLK", "+1.84%"], ["Utilities", "XLU", "-0.96%"]],
      "note": "Leading: Technology · Lagging: Utilities"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Top Gainers",
      "columns": ["Symbol", "Price", "Chg %", "Volume"],
      "rows": [["SMCI", "48.92", "+11.37%", "61.2M"]]
    }
  ],
  "markdown": "## Alpha Traders Closing Bell Digest · Fri Oct 16, 2026\n…"
}

If one section's data is temporarily unavailable, it carries a note instead of rows; the digest fails only when no section has data.

#Send a test

Builds and delivers the digest immediately, with [Test] prefixed to the title, so you can check your channel setup. Accepts the same slot parameter as preview.

#List and delete

Returns your active digests with their last delivery status (last_sent_at, last_status, last_error) and usage per kind. A limit of 0 means unlimited, and included: false means your plan doesn't offer that kind.

{
  "data": [
    { "id": "a3f0c7d2-…", "kind": "community", "name": "Alpha Traders daily", "symbols": [], "schedules": ["premarket", "close"], "channel": "discord", "target": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/123/abc", "brand_name": "Alpha Traders", "active": true, "created_at": "2026-10-15T09:12:44Z", "last_sent_at": "2026-10-16T12:30:01Z", "last_status": "delivered" }
  ],
  "quota": {
    "watchlist": { "used": 0, "limit": 20, "included": true },
    "community": { "used": 1, "limit": 1, "included": true }
  }
}

Stops the digest and frees its quota slot. Returns 204 No Content.