Day trading / context
News Monitor
Tracks breaking news on every stock you watch and flags what is moving it.
Pulls Yahoo Finance headlines and recent SEC 8-K filings for a ticker or watchlist, tags each item by theme and shows the day's move in New York time.
- Sources
- 2
- Lookback
- Configurable
- Time zone
- New York
- Filings
- 8-K
Live scene
News Monitor
git clone https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill.gitMITOverview
What News Monitor actually does
The News Monitor reads the headlines and filings attached to the stocks on your watchlist, then tags each item so you can see whether the move is earnings, a deal, a downgrade, a filing or a headline with no obvious cause.
It is a context tool, not a signal. It shows what is public right now and when it was published, so a setup is never entered blind to the reason the stock is moving.
Capabilities
What it helps your agent ship
Pull headlines for one ticker or the whole watchlist.
Read recent SEC 8-K filings through EDGAR.
Tag items by theme such as earnings, deal, analyst or filing.
Show the day's move beside the news.
Limit the window with --hours so old stories stay out.
Identify yourself to the SEC with a user agent from config or env.
Workflow
The process the skill follows
A repeatable sequence keeps the agent from jumping straight into edits before it understands the job.
- 01
Pick the scope
Pass --tickers or point the tool at trader/watchlist.json.
- 02
Set the window
Choose how many hours back to read so stale stories stay out.
- 03
Pull headlines
Query Yahoo Finance for each symbol and normalize the timestamps to New York time.
- 04
Read filings
Fetch recent 8-Ks from SEC EDGAR with your user agent.
- 05
Tag and report
Group the items by theme and show the move they help explain.
Inside the pack
References and modules
These are the load-on-demand files or command groups that make the skill useful beyond a single prompt.
news.py --tickers TSLA
Headlines and filings for a single ticker.
--hours 12
Restrict the lookback window.
--watchlist FILE
Cover every symbol the scanner wrote.
8-K reader
Recent material-event filings from EDGAR.
Theme tags
Earnings, deal, analyst, filing and general headline labels.
SEC user agent
Reads trader/config.json or SEC_USER_AGENT.
Use cases
Where it earns its place
Pre-trade check
Confirm why a scanner name is moving before you plan an entry.
Earnings week
See whether a day trade would be exposed to a report.
Watchlist triage
Find the names with fresh, material news first.
Prompt starters
Try one of these first
Copy a prompt into your agent. Replace the example URL with your own project or page.
Get me the last 12 hours of TSLA headlines and filings in New York time.
Check my whole watchlist for breaking news and tag what is material.
Is there an earnings report or 8-K that makes this day trade too risky?
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