📰 IBKR News Bot

Real-time news-driven engine for algorithmic trading on IBKR — powered by Benzinga Pro headlines. Milestone 1: Core bot for ingesting market headlines, matching keywords, and logging results to SQLite + rotating logs.

⚡ Features

• 🔌 Benzinga Pro Integration — Fetches real-time market headlines via API
• 🧠 Keyword Detection — High-speed Aho-Corasick engine for matching terms
• 💾 Persistent Logging — Saves all matches into SQLite and rotating file logs
• 📦 Modular Design — Clean architecture ready for IBKR order routing

📂 Structure

ibkr\news\bot/
│
├── ibkr\news\bot.py     # main bot script
├── .env                  # API keys and config
├── data/news.db          # SQLite database (auto-created)
├── logs/bot.log           # Rotating log file (auto-created)
└── README.md

2. Create Virtual Environment

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

3. Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

(Or manually):

pip install requests python-dotenv pyahocorasick

4. Add Your API Key

Create .env:

BZAPIKEY=yourrealbenzingaapikey_here

🚀 Usage

python ibkrnewsbot.py

• Pulls latest Benzinga headlines for watchlist symbols (default: AAPL, TSLA)
• Detects configured keywords (default: bankruptcy, merger, upgrade, earnings)
• Logs matches into data/news.db and logs/bot.log

📌 Roadmap

✅ Milestone 1 (Current)

• Core bot engine
• Benzinga news ingestion
• Keyword matcher
• SQLite + file logging

⏳ Milestone 2

• Keyword-triggered orders on IBKR via ib_insync
• Bracket orders, risk controls, Telegram alerts

⏳ Milestone 3

• GUI (PySide6/Qt)
• Watchlists, keyword lists, live logs

⏳ Milestone 4

• VPS deployment
• Backtesting + forward testing
• Full documentation

🧠 Credits

• Benzinga Pro API
• IBKR TWS API
• Developed by @NadirAliOfficial