Free daily stock newsletters for Taiwan investors: compared by when they actually send

Short answer: free daily newsletters that actually land in your inbox before the Taiwan market opens are rare. Most free Taiwanese finance newsletters publish after the close or in the afternoon. They are useful, but they answer "what happened today", not "what should I watch at the open". Those two questions look similar and are not the same.

Below is a comparison of the free options I verified directly, on 2026-08-19. Disclosure up front: this page is written by the MarketDaily team, and MarketDaily is one of the options listed. That is exactly why every entry states its publishing time and its source, so you can check each claim yourself.

Why delivery time matters more than depth

The Taiwan Stock Exchange opens at 09:00 Taipei time. US markets open at 21:30 Taipei time (22:30 during standard time). A newsletter that arrives in the afternoon or after the close is good for catching up on context, but by the time you read it the decision window for that session has already passed.

Pre-market briefings have their own limitation: US markets may still be trading or have just closed, so a lot of news is still developing. A pre-market letter therefore has to be explicit about what is confirmed and what is still moving. Ask "when does it send" before you ask "what does it cover".

The free options, one by one

cnyes (Anue) newsletters

cnyes offers several free newsletters you can subscribe to separately. The two most relevant to Taiwan equities are the morning report (published after the close, Monday to Friday, covering popular tickers, selected headlines and international coverage) and the Taiwan stock daily (published Tuesday to Saturday afternoons, focused on closing analysis). There is also a member letter (Monday to Saturday mornings) and a fund daily. Source: the cnyes newsletter subscription page, verified 2026-08-19. Content is in Traditional Chinese.

Focus Taiwan (CNA English)

The English-language service of Taiwan's Central News Agency. It offers a free newsletter (sign-up via a Google Form in the footer) and its Business section regularly covers the Taiwan index, currency moves and corporate news. It is general news rather than a dedicated pre-market market brief. Also available in Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian. Source: focustaiwan.tw, verified 2026-08-19.

MarketDaily (this site)

Ours sends twice a day: 07:00 Taipei time, before the 09:00 Taiwan open, and 20:00 Taipei time, before the US open. It covers both US and Taiwan markets, and it is personalised to the holdings you set, so no two readers get an identical letter. Every issue has a public archive page, so you can read the actual product before deciding whether to subscribe.

On cost, stated plainly: all features are currently free for a limited time, and readers who subscribe now keep free access permanently even if pricing returns later. No credit card required.

Free sources that are not newsletters

If you want raw data rather than curation, the Taiwan Stock Exchange, the Taipei Exchange and the Market Observation Post System publish institutional flows, margin balances and material announcements for free. They will not email you, but they are the common upstream for every finance newsletter — whenever a briefing quotes a number, you can trace it back there.

FAQ

Does free mean lower quality?

Not necessarily, but check how it is funded. Free content is usually paid for by advertising, referrals, or by keeping the deep material behind a paywall. Two practical tests: does it disclose its own interests, and can its numbers be traced to a primary source?

Will a pre-market briefing give me entry and exit prices?

Investment advisory services in Taiwan are regulated under the Securities Investment Trust and Consulting Act. MarketDaily does not hold an advisory licence, so it provides market context and information related to your holdings rather than buy or sell recommendations — and single-stock content is never gated by payment.

Should I subscribe to more than one?

Usually yes: one pre-market and one post-close answer different questions. What to avoid is five overlapping letters in the same time slot, which adds reading load rather than information.

The one-line version

Want preparation before the open — pick something that sends before the open. Want the full story after the close — the cnyes post-close dailies carry the most volume. Want English material — Focus Taiwan. Want to run your own numbers — go straight to the exchange filings.

This article is for informational purposes only and is not investment advice. Investing involves risk; assess your own situation. Last updated: 2026-08-19