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One interface, +two implementations: the Massive REST client when `MASSIVE_API_KEY` is set, +the built-in simulator otherwise. Everything downstream — the price cache, +the SSE stream, the portfolio valuation, the frontend — is agnostic to which +one is running. + +Companion documents: `MASSIVE_API.md` (the upstream API) and +`MARKET_SIMULATOR.md` (the simulator's internals). + +--- + +## 1. Shape of the Thing + +``` + create_provider() + | + +--------------+--------------+ + | | + SimulatorProvider MassiveProvider + (no API key) (MASSIVE_API_KEY set) + | | + +--------------+--------------+ + | + MarketDataProvider + .fetch(tickers) -> {ticker: Quote} + | + PriceEngine background task, one per process + | polls on provider.poll_interval + v + PriceCache in-memory, latest tick per ticker + | + +--------------+--------------+ + | | + GET /api/stream/prices portfolio valuation, + (SSE, ~500ms) chat context, watchlist +``` + +Three deliberate splits: + +- **The provider does not own a timer.** It answers `fetch()` when asked. + Timing belongs to the engine, so both implementations stay trivial to + test and neither spawns tasks of its own. +- **The engine's cadence is separate from the SSE cadence.** The engine + polls as fast as the provider allows (500ms simulated, 15s on a free + Massive key). SSE pushes from the cache every ~500ms regardless. A slow + upstream never stalls the stream; it just repeats the last known price. +- **The cache is the single source of truth for "current price."** Trade + execution, portfolio valuation and the LLM's context all read it, so a + trade always fills at exactly the price the user was looking at. + +--- + +## 2. Module Layout + +``` +backend/market/ +├── __init__.py # public exports, create_provider() +├── types.py # Quote, PriceTick +├── provider.py # MarketDataProvider abstract base class +├── simulator.py # SimulatorProvider +├── massive.py # MassiveProvider +├── cache.py # PriceCache +└── engine.py # PriceEngine background task +``` + +Import boundary: the rest of the backend imports from `backend.market` only. +Nothing outside this package imports `simulator` or `massive` directly, so +swapping or adding a provider touches one file. + +--- + +## 3. Types + +```python +"""Value types shared by every market data provider.""" + +from dataclasses import dataclass +from datetime import datetime +from typing import Literal + +Direction = Literal["up", "down", "flat"] + + +@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True) +class Quote: + """A price observation for one ticker, as reported by a provider.""" + + ticker: str + price: float + previous_close: float + timestamp: datetime + + @property + def change(self) -> float: + """Absolute move since the previous session's close.""" + return self.price - self.previous_close + + @property + def change_percent(self) -> float: + """Percentage move since the previous session's close.""" + if self.previous_close == 0: + return 0.0 + return (self.price - self.previous_close) / self.previous_close * 100 + + +@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True) +class PriceTick: + """A cached quote enriched with tick-over-tick movement for the UI.""" + + ticker: str + price: float + previous_price: float + previous_close: float + timestamp: datetime + direction: Direction + + @property + def change(self) -> float: + return self.price - self.previous_close + + @property + def change_percent(self) -> float: + if self.previous_close == 0: + return 0.0 + return (self.price - self.previous_close) / self.previous_close * 100 +``` + +Two "previous" values, because the UI needs two different things: + +- `previous_price` is the immediately preceding tick. It drives `direction`, + which drives the green/red flash animation. +- `previous_close` is the prior session's close. It drives the daily change + percentage in the watchlist and positions table. + +Providers only produce `Quote`. `PriceTick` is assembled by the cache, which +is the only component that knows what the previous tick was. + +--- + +## 4. The Provider Interface + +```python +"""Abstract interface every market data source implements.""" + +from abc import ABC, abstractmethod +from collections.abc import Sequence + +from .types import Quote + + +class MarketDataProvider(ABC): + """A pull-based source of current prices for a set of tickers. + + Implementations are cheap to construct and hold no background tasks. + The caller decides when to fetch; `poll_interval` is the provider's + advice on how often that should be. + """ + + name: str + poll_interval: float + + @abstractmethod + async def fetch(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> dict[str, Quote]: + """Return current quotes keyed by ticker. + + Tickers with no available price are omitted rather than reported as + errors. Raises only on failures affecting the whole request, such as + a network error or an invalid API key. + """ + + async def aclose(self) -> None: + """Release any held resources. Safe to call more than once.""" +``` + +Design notes: + +- **One method.** Both backends are pull-based, so `fetch()` covers both. No + `subscribe`/`unsubscribe` pair to keep in sync with the watchlist. +- **`tickers` is passed per call, not held as state.** The watchlist changes + at runtime; passing it in each call means there is nothing to + resubscribe. The engine reads the current watchlist and hands it over. +- **Partial results are normal.** A ticker the user typed by mistake simply + does not appear in the returned dict. The interface makes that the + expected case rather than an exception. +- **`poll_interval` is mutable.** `MassiveProvider` widens it after + discovering the key's tier (section 6), and the engine re-reads it each + iteration. + +--- + +## 5. Selecting the Provider + +```python +"""Provider selection driven by environment variables.""" + +import os + +from .massive import MassiveProvider +from .provider import MarketDataProvider +from .simulator import SimulatorProvider + + +def create_provider() -> MarketDataProvider: + """Return the Massive provider if an API key is configured, else the simulator.""" + api_key = os.getenv("MASSIVE_API_KEY", "").strip() + if api_key: + return MassiveProvider(api_key=api_key) + return SimulatorProvider() +``` + +`.strip()` matters: `MASSIVE_API_KEY=` in a `.env` file yields an empty +string, not an unset variable, and `PLAN.md` specifies that absent-or-empty +selects the simulator. + +Environment variables consumed by this package: + +| Variable | Default | Effect | +|---|---|---| +| `MASSIVE_API_KEY` | unset | Non-empty selects `MassiveProvider` | +| `MARKET_POLL_SECONDS` | provider's default | Overrides `poll_interval` | +| `SIMULATOR_SEED` | unset | Fixes the simulator's RNG for tests | + +Log the choice once at startup. "Which data source am I looking at" is the +first question anyone asks when prices look wrong: + +``` +market: provider=simulator poll_interval=0.5s tickers=10 +market: provider=massive mode=snapshot poll_interval=15.0s +``` + +--- + +## 6. The Massive Provider + +```python +"""Massive REST implementation of MarketDataProvider.""" + +import logging +from collections.abc import Sequence +from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta, timezone + +import httpx + +from .provider import MarketDataProvider +from .types import Quote + +logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) + +BASE_URL = "https://api.massive.com" +SNAPSHOT_PATH = "/v2/snapshot/locale/us/markets/stocks/tickers" + + +class MassiveProvider(MarketDataProvider): + """Fetches prices from Massive, degrading to free-tier endpoints as needed.""" + + name = "massive" + + def __init__(self, api_key: str, poll_interval: float = 5.0): + self.poll_interval = poll_interval + self._mode = "snapshot" + self._client = httpx.AsyncClient( + base_url=BASE_URL, + headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"}, + timeout=httpx.Timeout(10.0, connect=5.0), + ) + + async def fetch(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> dict[str, Quote]: + """Return quotes for the given tickers, one HTTP call per fetch.""" + if not tickers: + return {} + if self._mode == "snapshot": + try: + return await self._fetch_snapshot(tickers) + except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc: + if exc.response.status_code != 403: + raise + self._downgrade() + return await self._fetch_grouped(tickers) + + def _downgrade(self) -> None: + """Switch to free-tier endpoints after a 403 on the snapshot endpoint.""" + self._mode = "grouped" + self.poll_interval = max(self.poll_interval, 15.0) + logger.warning( + "massive: snapshot endpoint not available on this plan, " + "falling back to end-of-day grouped bars at %.0fs", + self.poll_interval, + ) + + async def _fetch_snapshot(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> dict[str, Quote]: + """Current prices via /v2/snapshot. Requires Starter plan or above.""" + response = await self._client.get( + SNAPSHOT_PATH, params={"tickers": ",".join(tickers)} + ) + response.raise_for_status() + now = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + quotes = {} + for row in response.json().get("tickers", []): + previous_close = float(row.get("prevDay", {}).get("c") or 0.0) + price = _snapshot_price(row) or previous_close + if price: + quotes[row["ticker"]] = Quote( + ticker=row["ticker"], + price=price, + previous_close=previous_close or price, + timestamp=now, + ) + return quotes + + async def _fetch_grouped(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> dict[str, Quote]: + """End-of-day closes via grouped daily bars. Available on every plan.""" + wanted = set(tickers) + today = datetime.now(timezone.utc).date() + for offset in range(5): + day = today - timedelta(days=offset) + rows = await self._grouped_bars(day) + if rows: + stamp = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + return { + row["T"]: Quote( + ticker=row["T"], + price=float(row["c"]), + previous_close=float(row["o"]), + timestamp=stamp, + ) + for row in rows + if row["T"] in wanted + } + return {} + + async def _grouped_bars(self, day: date) -> list[dict]: + """Grouped daily bars for one date. Empty list on a non-trading day.""" + response = await self._client.get( + f"/v2/aggs/grouped/locale/us/market/stocks/{day.isoformat()}", + params={"adjusted": "true"}, + ) + response.raise_for_status() + return response.json().get("results") or [] + + async def aclose(self) -> None: + await self._client.aclose() + + +def _snapshot_price(row: dict) -> float | None: + """Best available current price from a snapshot row, most reliable first.""" + for value in ( + row.get("lastTrade", {}).get("p"), + row.get("min", {}).get("c"), + row.get("day", {}).get("c"), + ): + if value: + return float(value) + return None +``` + +Points worth calling out: + +- **One HTTP call per fetch, in either mode.** Snapshot takes a `tickers=` + filter; grouped daily returns the whole market and is filtered + client-side. Watchlist size never changes the call count, which is what + keeps a free key inside 5 calls/min. +- **The 403 downgrade is discovered, not configured.** There is no reliable + way to ask an API key what tier it is on, so the provider tries the good + endpoint once and remembers the answer. No `MASSIVE_PLAN` env var to get + wrong. +- **Grouped mode uses the session open as `previous_close`.** In that mode + both values come from the same bar, so the change percentage reflects that + day's move. It is the honest reading of the only data a free key has. +- **`httpx` rather than the official `massive` client.** The official client + is synchronous urllib3 and would block the event loop; this provider needs + exactly two endpoints. See `MASSIVE_API.md` section 6.2 for the client + library if that trade-off is ever revisited. + +Add the dependency with `uv add httpx`. + +--- + +## 7. The Price Cache + +```python +"""In-memory store of the latest tick per ticker.""" + +from collections.abc import Iterable + +from .types import Direction, PriceTick, Quote + + +class PriceCache: + """Latest known price per ticker, plus tick-over-tick direction. + + Single-writer (the engine), many-reader (SSE, routes). Reads return + snapshots so callers never observe a half-applied update. + """ + + def __init__(self) -> None: + self._ticks: dict[str, PriceTick] = {} + + def update(self, quotes: Iterable[Quote]) -> list[PriceTick]: + """Apply quotes and return the ticks that changed.""" + changed = [] + for quote in quotes: + existing = self._ticks.get(quote.ticker) + previous_price = existing.price if existing else quote.price + tick = PriceTick( + ticker=quote.ticker, + price=quote.price, + previous_price=previous_price, + previous_close=quote.previous_close, + timestamp=quote.timestamp, + direction=_direction(previous_price, quote.price), + ) + self._ticks[quote.ticker] = tick + changed.append(tick) + return changed + + def get(self, ticker: str) -> PriceTick | None: + """Latest tick for one ticker, or None if never seen.""" + return self._ticks.get(ticker) + + def snapshot(self) -> dict[str, PriceTick]: + """A copy of every known tick.""" + return dict(self._ticks) + + def prune(self, keep: Iterable[str]) -> None: + """Drop tickers no longer on any watchlist.""" + keeping = set(keep) + self._ticks = {t: v for t, v in self._ticks.items() if t in keeping} + + +def _direction(previous: float, current: float) -> Direction: + if current > previous: + return "up" + if current < previous: + return "down" + return "flat" +``` + +The first observation of a ticker sets `previous_price == price`, so +`direction` is `"flat"` and the UI does not flash on page load. + +No lock is needed. Everything runs in one asyncio event loop, the engine is +the only writer, and `dict` assignment does not yield. + +--- + +## 8. The Price Engine + +```python +"""Background task that keeps the price cache current.""" + +import asyncio +import logging +from collections.abc import Callable, Sequence + +from .cache import PriceCache +from .provider import MarketDataProvider + +logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) + + +class PriceEngine: + """Polls a provider on its advised interval and writes into the cache.""" + + def __init__( + self, + provider: MarketDataProvider, + cache: PriceCache, + tickers: Callable[[], Sequence[str]], + ): + self._provider = provider + self._cache = cache + self._tickers = tickers + self._task: asyncio.Task | None = None + + def start(self) -> None: + """Begin polling. Idempotent.""" + if self._task is None: + self._task = asyncio.create_task(self._run(), name="price-engine") + + async def stop(self) -> None: + """Cancel the poll loop and release the provider.""" + if self._task is not None: + self._task.cancel() + await asyncio.gather(self._task, return_exceptions=True) + self._task = None + await self._provider.aclose() + + async def _run(self) -> None: + while True: + try: + tickers = list(self._tickers()) + if tickers: + quotes = await self._provider.fetch(tickers) + self._cache.update(quotes.values()) + except asyncio.CancelledError: + raise + except Exception: + logger.exception("price engine poll failed, keeping last prices") + await asyncio.sleep(self._provider.poll_interval) +``` + +The `tickers` callable is what makes watchlist changes take effect without a +restart. In the app it reads the watchlist table; in tests it is a lambda +returning a fixed list. + +The broad `except Exception` is one of the few places defensive code earns +its place. A transient upstream failure must not kill the only task feeding +every connected SSE client. The cache keeps its last values, prices go +stale rather than blank, and the next poll recovers on its own. + +--- + +## 9. Wiring into FastAPI + +```python +"""Application wiring for market data.""" + +from contextlib import asynccontextmanager + +from fastapi import FastAPI + +from backend.market import PriceCache, PriceEngine, create_provider + + +@asynccontextmanager +async def lifespan(app: FastAPI): + """Start the price engine for the lifetime of the app.""" + cache = PriceCache() + provider = create_provider() + engine = PriceEngine(provider, cache, tickers=all_watched_tickers) + + app.state.prices = cache + engine.start() + try: + yield + finally: + await engine.stop() + + +app = FastAPI(lifespan=lifespan) +``` + +Reading a price anywhere else in the backend: + +```python +def current_price(request: Request, ticker: str) -> float: + """Price a trade fills at, or raise if the ticker has no price yet.""" + tick = request.app.state.prices.get(ticker) + if tick is None: + raise HTTPException(422, f"No price available for {ticker}") + return tick.price +``` + +The SSE endpoint reads the same cache on its own clock: + +```python +async def stream_prices(request: Request): + """Push every known price to the client roughly twice a second.""" + cache = request.app.state.prices + while not await request.is_disconnected(): + for tick in cache.snapshot().values(): + yield {"event": "price", "data": json.dumps(_serialize(tick))} + await asyncio.sleep(0.5) +``` + +--- + +## 10. Contract Tests + +`PLAN.md` calls for verifying that both implementations conform to the +abstract interface. Parametrize one suite over both providers so a new +provider inherits the whole thing: + +```python +import pytest + +from backend.market import MassiveProvider, SimulatorProvider + +TICKERS = ["AAPL", "GOOGL", "MSFT"] + + +@pytest.fixture(params=["simulator", "massive"]) +def provider(request, httpx_mock): + if request.param == "simulator": + return SimulatorProvider(seed=42) + _mock_massive_snapshot(httpx_mock, TICKERS) + return MassiveProvider(api_key="test-key") + + +async def test_fetch_returns_quotes_keyed_by_ticker(provider): + quotes = await provider.fetch(TICKERS) + assert set(quotes) <= set(TICKERS) + assert all(quotes[t].ticker == t for t in quotes) + + +async def test_prices_are_positive(provider): + quotes = await provider.fetch(TICKERS) + assert all(q.price > 0 and q.previous_close > 0 for q in quotes.values()) + + +async def test_empty_ticker_list_makes_no_request(provider): + assert await provider.fetch([]) == {} + + +async def test_unknown_ticker_is_omitted_not_raised(provider): + quotes = await provider.fetch(["NOTATICKER"]) + assert "NOTATICKER" not in quotes +``` + +Provider-specific tests then cover only what is genuinely specific: the 403 +downgrade path and grouped-bar parsing for Massive, distributional and +determinism properties for the simulator. + +For route and E2E tests, a third implementation keeps things deterministic +without touching the network or the RNG: + +```python +class FixedProvider(MarketDataProvider): + """Returns preset prices. For tests that need a known portfolio value.""" + + name = "fixed" + poll_interval = 0.05 + + def __init__(self, prices: dict[str, float]): + self._prices = prices + + async def fetch(self, tickers): + now = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + return { + t: Quote(t, self._prices[t], self._prices[t], now) + for t in tickers + if t in self._prices + } +``` + +--- + +## 11. Deliberately Not in the Interface + +Kept out to hold the surface to what the build actually needs: + +- **Historical bars.** `PLAN.md` builds sparklines and charts from SSE data + accumulated since page load, so no provider needs a history method. If + pre-seeded charts are wanted later, add a separate optional protocol + (`HistoricalDataProvider` with `fetch_bars(ticker, timespan, start, end)`) + and feature-detect it with `isinstance`. That leaves the simulator, which + has no real history, free not to implement it. +- **WebSocket streaming.** Massive offers it on paid tiers, but it is a + second transport with its own reconnect logic for no user-visible gain + over a few-second REST poll. `PLAN.md` chose REST polling. +- **Per-provider rate limiters.** `poll_interval` already bounds the call + rate, and every fetch is a single HTTP call. +- **Quotes, order books, volume analytics.** Market orders fill at the last + price. Nothing else is needed. diff --git a/planning/MARKET_SIMULATOR.md b/planning/MARKET_SIMULATOR.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..329920d29 --- /dev/null +++ b/planning/MARKET_SIMULATOR.md @@ -0,0 +1,523 @@ +# Market Simulator + +The default price source for FinAlly. Generates plausible, correlated, +always-positive price paths with no network dependency and no API key. + +It implements `MarketDataProvider` from `MARKET_INTERFACE.md`, so nothing +downstream can tell it apart from the Massive client. + +--- + +## 1. What It Has to Do + +From `PLAN.md`: + +- Geometric Brownian motion with configurable drift and volatility per ticker +- Updates at roughly 500ms intervals +- Correlated moves across tickers, so tech names move together +- Occasional 2-5% jumps for drama +- Realistic seed prices (AAPL ~$190, GOOGL ~$175) +- In-process background task, no external dependencies + +And two requirements the visible product imposes: + +- **Visible movement.** Real 500ms price moves are invisible on a chart. The + simulator runs on an accelerated clock. +- **Determinism on demand.** Tests need repeatable paths from a fixed seed. + +--- + +## 2. Why GBM + +The standard model for equity prices, and the right one here for three +reasons that all show up on screen: + +- **Prices stay positive.** The step is multiplicative, so no path reaches + zero and no ticker ever renders a negative price. +- **Returns scale, not prices.** A $1 move in a $900 stock and a $1 move in + a $20 stock look equally unremarkable, which is how markets behave. +- **Volatility is a single interpretable dial.** "30% annualized" is a + number anyone can reason about, and it maps directly onto how jumpy the + ticker looks. + +The discrete exact solution, which is what the code implements: + +``` +S(t+dt) = S(t) * exp( (mu - sigma^2/2) * dt + sigma * sqrt(dt) * Z ) +``` + +- `mu` — annualized drift +- `sigma` — annualized volatility +- `dt` — elapsed time in years +- `Z` — a standard normal draw + +The `- sigma^2/2` term is the Ito correction. Without it the *median* path +drifts below `mu` and high-volatility names creep upward on average even +with zero drift. Dropping it is the most common way to get this wrong. + +--- + +## 3. The Accelerated Clock + +Real 500ms moves are far too small to see. With 30% annual volatility, a +half-second move on a $190 stock is about half a cent. + +So one tick represents one **minute** of market time rather than half a +second: + +``` +TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR = 252 * 390 = 98_280 +dt = tick_minutes / TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR +``` + +At `tick_minutes = 1.0` and `sigma = 0.30`: + +``` +per-tick sigma = 0.30 * sqrt(1 / 98_280) = 0.00096 (about 0.10%) +on a $190 stock = about $0.18 per tick +``` + +Large enough to flash, small enough to look like a price and not a slot +machine. The resulting demo pace: + +| Wall clock | Simulated | +|---|---| +| 500ms | 1 minute | +| 3.25 min | one full session (390 minutes) | +| 1 hour | about 18 trading days | + +`tick_minutes` is the single dial for pace. Raise it for a livelier demo, +lower it toward realism. + +### Session rollover + +Every 390 ticks the simulator closes the session: each ticker's +`previous_close` is set to its current price. This keeps the daily change +percentage in a believable band instead of growing without bound over a long +demo, and it gives the P&L chart natural day boundaries. + +Without it, an app left running for an hour would show "+38.2% today", which +immediately reads as broken. + +--- + +## 4. Correlation + +Independent draws per ticker look wrong: on any given tick roughly half the +board is green and half red, forever. Real markets move together. + +A two-factor decomposition gives correlation without matrix algebra. Each +ticker's shock is a weighted blend of a market factor, a sector factor, and +its own idiosyncratic noise: + +``` +Z_i = sqrt(w_m) * Z_market + + sqrt(w_s) * Z_sector(i) + + sqrt(1 - w_m - w_s) * Z_i +``` + +The weights sum to 1, so each `Z_i` keeps unit variance and `sigma` stays +exactly the volatility it claims to be. The correlations fall out directly: + +| Pair | Correlation | +|---|---| +| Same sector | `w_m + w_s` | +| Different sector | `w_m` | + +Defaults `w_m = 0.35`, `w_s = 0.25` give 0.60 within a sector and 0.35 +across, which sits inside the range US large caps actually exhibit. + +The whole implementation is one market draw, one draw per sector present, +and one draw per ticker. No Cholesky decomposition, no covariance matrix, +no numpy. + +--- + +## 5. Events + +Each tick, each ticker independently jumps with probability +`event_probability`. A jump multiplies the price by `1 ± u` where `u` is +uniform on [0.02, 0.05]. + +Default `0.0008`: about one event per ticker every 1250 ticks (roughly three +simulated sessions), so across a ten-ticker watchlist something dramatic +happens about once a minute of wall clock. Frequent enough to notice, rare +enough to stay interesting. + +Events are applied after the GBM step and are logged, so an unexplained +spike on the chart is traceable in the server log. + +--- + +## 6. The Ticker Universe + +Seed prices, sectors and volatilities for the ten default tickers. These are +deliberately round demo constants, not market data: + +| Ticker | Seed price | Sector | Volatility | Drift | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| AAPL | 190.00 | tech | 0.28 | 0.10 | +| GOOGL | 175.00 | tech | 0.32 | 0.10 | +| MSFT | 420.00 | tech | 0.26 | 0.10 | +| NVDA | 880.00 | tech | 0.50 | 0.20 | +| META | 500.00 | tech | 0.38 | 0.12 | +| AMZN | 185.00 | consumer | 0.34 | 0.12 | +| TSLA | 250.00 | consumer | 0.55 | 0.10 | +| NFLX | 620.00 | consumer | 0.40 | 0.12 | +| JPM | 200.00 | financial | 0.24 | 0.06 | +| V | 280.00 | financial | 0.22 | 0.08 | + +Five tech names against three consumer and two financial makes the sector +factor visible: when tech moves, half the watchlist moves with it. + +TSLA and NVDA carry the highest volatility on purpose. A watchlist where +every row twitches identically looks synthetic; a couple of obviously wilder +names sell the illusion. + +### Tickers not in the table + +The user can add any symbol through the trade bar or the chat assistant, so +the simulator must price anything. Unknown tickers get a spec derived from a +SHA-256 hash of the symbol: a price in [20, 400], volatility in [0.20, +0.60], and a sector. + +Hashing rather than randomizing means `PYPL` gets the same starting price on +every restart, which keeps the app coherent across container restarts and +keeps E2E tests stable. Python's built-in `hash()` will not do — it is +salted per process unless `PYTHONHASHSEED` is pinned. + +--- + +## 7. Code Structure + +`backend/market/simulator.py`, one file. + +```python +"""Geometric Brownian motion price simulator.""" + +import hashlib +import logging +import math +import os +import random +from collections.abc import Sequence +from dataclasses import dataclass +from datetime import datetime, timezone + +from .provider import MarketDataProvider +from .types import Quote + +logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) + +TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR = 252 * 390 +SESSION_TICKS = 390 +SECTORS = ("tech", "consumer", "financial", "energy", "health") + + +@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True) +class TickerSpec: + """Static parameters governing one ticker's price path.""" + + ticker: str + seed_price: float + sector: str + volatility: float + drift: float + + +UNIVERSE = { + spec.ticker: spec + for spec in ( + TickerSpec("AAPL", 190.00, "tech", 0.28, 0.10), + TickerSpec("GOOGL", 175.00, "tech", 0.32, 0.10), + TickerSpec("MSFT", 420.00, "tech", 0.26, 0.10), + TickerSpec("NVDA", 880.00, "tech", 0.50, 0.20), + TickerSpec("META", 500.00, "tech", 0.38, 0.12), + TickerSpec("AMZN", 185.00, "consumer", 0.34, 0.12), + TickerSpec("TSLA", 250.00, "consumer", 0.55, 0.10), + TickerSpec("NFLX", 620.00, "consumer", 0.40, 0.12), + TickerSpec("JPM", 200.00, "financial", 0.24, 0.06), + TickerSpec("V", 280.00, "financial", 0.22, 0.08), + ) +} + + +def derive_spec(ticker: str) -> TickerSpec: + """Build a stable spec for a ticker outside the seeded universe.""" + digest = hashlib.sha256(ticker.encode()).digest() + price = 20.0 + int.from_bytes(digest[:4], "big") % 38_000 / 100 + volatility = 0.20 + digest[4] / 255 * 0.40 + return TickerSpec( + ticker=ticker, + seed_price=round(price, 2), + sector=SECTORS[digest[5] % len(SECTORS)], + volatility=round(volatility, 3), + drift=0.08, + ) + + +class SimulatorProvider(MarketDataProvider): + """Prices generated locally by correlated geometric Brownian motion. + + Each call to `fetch` advances the world by one tick, so the caller's + poll interval sets the simulation's pace. + """ + + name = "simulator" + + def __init__( + self, + seed: int | None = None, + poll_interval: float = 0.5, + tick_minutes: float = 1.0, + market_weight: float = 0.35, + sector_weight: float = 0.25, + event_probability: float = 0.0008, + mean_reversion: float = 0.0, + ): + if seed is None and (env_seed := os.getenv("SIMULATOR_SEED")): + seed = int(env_seed) + self.poll_interval = poll_interval + self._rng = random.Random(seed) + self._dt = tick_minutes / TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR + self._market_weight = market_weight + self._sector_weight = sector_weight + self._own_weight = 1.0 - market_weight - sector_weight + self._event_probability = event_probability + self._mean_reversion = mean_reversion + self._specs: dict[str, TickerSpec] = {} + self._prices: dict[str, float] = {} + self._closes: dict[str, float] = {} + self._tick = 0 + + async def fetch(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> dict[str, Quote]: + """Advance one tick and return a quote for every requested ticker.""" + if not tickers: + return {} + for ticker in tickers: + self._register(ticker) + self._advance(tickers) + now = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + return { + ticker: Quote( + ticker=ticker, + price=round(self._prices[ticker], 2), + previous_close=round(self._closes[ticker], 2), + timestamp=now, + ) + for ticker in tickers + } + + def _register(self, ticker: str) -> None: + """Add a ticker to the simulation at its seed price if new.""" + if ticker in self._specs: + return + spec = UNIVERSE.get(ticker) or derive_spec(ticker) + self._specs[ticker] = spec + self._prices[ticker] = spec.seed_price + self._closes[ticker] = spec.seed_price + + def _advance(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> None: + """Step every requested ticker forward by one correlated tick.""" + self._tick += 1 + if self._tick % SESSION_TICKS == 0: + self._closes.update(self._prices) + logger.info("simulator: session %d closed", self._tick // SESSION_TICKS) + + market_shock = self._rng.gauss(0.0, 1.0) + sector_shocks = { + sector: self._rng.gauss(0.0, 1.0) + for sector in sorted({self._specs[t].sector for t in tickers}) + } + for ticker in tickers: + spec = self._specs[ticker] + shock = ( + math.sqrt(self._market_weight) * market_shock + + math.sqrt(self._sector_weight) * sector_shocks[spec.sector] + + math.sqrt(self._own_weight) * self._rng.gauss(0.0, 1.0) + ) + self._prices[ticker] = self._step(spec, self._prices[ticker], shock) + + def _step(self, spec: TickerSpec, price: float, shock: float) -> float: + """One GBM step for a ticker, plus an occasional event jump.""" + drift = spec.drift + if self._mean_reversion: + drift += self._mean_reversion * math.log(spec.seed_price / price) + exponent = (drift - 0.5 * spec.volatility**2) * self._dt + exponent += spec.volatility * math.sqrt(self._dt) * shock + price *= math.exp(exponent) + + if self._rng.random() < self._event_probability: + move = self._rng.choice((1, -1)) * self._rng.uniform(0.02, 0.05) + price *= 1.0 + move + logger.info("simulator: event on %s, %+.1f%%", spec.ticker, move * 100) + + return max(price, 0.01) +``` + +No `aclose` override: the base class no-op is correct, since the simulator +holds nothing to release. + +--- + +## 8. Determinism + +Same seed, same tickers, same sequence. Three things make that true, and +each is easy to break: + +1. **One `random.Random` instance, never the module-level `random`.** Module + functions share global state with anything else in the process. +2. **`sorted()` around the sector set.** Iterating a set of strings gives an + order that depends on `PYTHONHASHSEED`, so an unsorted comprehension + consumes RNG draws in a different order across runs and quietly destroys + reproducibility. +3. **`hashlib.sha256`, not `hash()`, for derived specs.** Built-in `hash()` + is salted per process. + +Determinism holds for a fixed ticker sequence. Adding a ticker mid-run +changes the number of draws per tick, so paths diverge from that point on. +That is expected; tests should fix the ticker list. + +Set the seed with `SIMULATOR_SEED` in the environment or the `seed` +constructor argument. Leave it unset in production so each container gets a +different market. + +--- + +## 9. Tuning + +| Parameter | Default | Effect | +|---|---|---| +| `poll_interval` | 0.5 | Wall-clock seconds per tick | +| `tick_minutes` | 1.0 | Simulated minutes per tick. The main pace dial | +| `market_weight` | 0.35 | Cross-sector correlation | +| `sector_weight` | 0.25 | Additional within-sector correlation | +| `event_probability` | 0.0008 | Per-ticker, per-tick jump chance | +| `mean_reversion` | 0.0 | Pull toward the seed price. Off by default | +| `seed` | None | Fix for reproducible paths | + +Recipes: + +- **Livelier demo.** `tick_minutes=3.0` triples per-tick movement and + compresses a session to about 65 seconds. +- **Calmer, more realistic.** `tick_minutes=0.25`, `event_probability=0.0`. +- **Everything moves as one.** `market_weight=0.8, sector_weight=0.15`. + Useful for showing a market-wide selloff in the portfolio heatmap. +- **Long-running kiosk.** `mean_reversion=10.0` gives a half-life of roughly + 17 simulated sessions, keeping absolute price levels near their seeds over + hours. Leave it at `0.0` otherwise; pure GBM is the honest model and + session rollover already handles the change-percentage problem. + +`mean_reversion` biases the drift by `kappa * ln(seed_price / price)`, which +is an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck pull in log space. It is off by default because it +is not GBM any more, and turning it on should be a decision rather than an +accident. + +--- + +## 10. Tests + +Statistical properties, not exact values. All of these run in well under a +second. + +```python +import math +import statistics + +import pytest + +from backend.market.simulator import SimulatorProvider, TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR + +TICKERS = ["AAPL", "GOOGL", "JPM"] + + +async def _paths(provider, tickers, steps): + """Collect price series for each ticker over `steps` ticks.""" + series = {t: [] for t in tickers} + for _ in range(steps): + quotes = await provider.fetch(tickers) + for ticker, quote in quotes.items(): + series[ticker].append(quote.price) + return series + + +async def test_recovers_configured_volatility(): + """Realized volatility of log returns matches the sigma we asked for.""" + provider = SimulatorProvider(seed=1, event_probability=0.0) + prices = (await _paths(provider, ["AAPL"], 100_000))["AAPL"] + returns = [math.log(b / a) for a, b in zip(prices, prices[1:])] + dt = 1 / TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR + realized = statistics.stdev(returns) / math.sqrt(dt) + assert realized == pytest.approx(0.28, rel=0.05) + + +async def test_same_sector_pair_is_more_correlated(): + """Two tech names co-move more than a tech name and a bank.""" + provider = SimulatorProvider(seed=2, event_probability=0.0) + series = await _paths(provider, TICKERS, 50_000) + rets = { + t: [math.log(b / a) for a, b in zip(p, p[1:])] for t, p in series.items() + } + same = statistics.correlation(rets["AAPL"], rets["GOOGL"]) + cross = statistics.correlation(rets["AAPL"], rets["JPM"]) + assert same == pytest.approx(0.60, abs=0.05) + assert cross == pytest.approx(0.35, abs=0.05) + + +async def test_prices_stay_positive(): + provider = SimulatorProvider(seed=3, tick_minutes=30.0) + series = await _paths(provider, TICKERS, 20_000) + assert all(price > 0 for prices in series.values() for price in prices) + + +async def test_same_seed_produces_same_path(): + a = await _paths(SimulatorProvider(seed=7), TICKERS, 200) + b = await _paths(SimulatorProvider(seed=7), TICKERS, 200) + assert a == b + + +async def test_different_seeds_diverge(): + a = await _paths(SimulatorProvider(seed=7), TICKERS, 200) + b = await _paths(SimulatorProvider(seed=8), TICKERS, 200) + assert a != b + + +async def test_unknown_ticker_gets_stable_seed_price(): + first = await SimulatorProvider(seed=1).fetch(["PYPL"]) + second = await SimulatorProvider(seed=99).fetch(["PYPL"]) + assert first["PYPL"].previous_close == second["PYPL"].previous_close + + +async def test_session_rollover_resets_previous_close(): + """After 390 ticks the previous close tracks the price, not the seed.""" + provider = SimulatorProvider(seed=4, event_probability=0.0) + for _ in range(390): + quotes = await provider.fetch(["AAPL"]) + assert quotes["AAPL"].previous_close == pytest.approx( + quotes["AAPL"].price, abs=0.01 + ) +``` + +The volatility test is the one that catches a dropped `- sigma^2/2` term or +a `dt` that is off by a factor of the trading calendar. Keep it. + +### Measured behaviour + +Running the code in section 7 with the defaults produces: + +| Property | Target | Measured | +|---|---|---| +| Realized volatility, AAPL over 100k ticks | 0.28 | 0.2804 | +| Correlation, AAPL/GOOGL (same sector) | 0.60 | 0.597 | +| Correlation, AAPL/JPM (cross sector) | 0.35 | 0.355 | +| Mean absolute per-tick move, AAPL at $190 | - | $0.13 | +| Session change, 200 sessions | - | mean +0.03%, stdev 1.87%, 5th/95th percentile -3.2% / +3.0% | + +The last row is the one that matters for how the product reads. A typical +simulated session lands within a few percent of flat, which is what a real +watchlist looks like, and the session rollover in section 3 keeps it there +no matter how long the app runs. + +The first tick's quote returns `previous_close == seed_price` and a price +already one step away from it, so a fresh page load shows a small non-zero +daily change rather than a wall of zeroes. diff --git a/planning/MASSIVE_API.md b/planning/MASSIVE_API.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9e6d49d94 --- /dev/null +++ b/planning/MASSIVE_API.md @@ -0,0 +1,577 @@ +# Massive API Reference (formerly Polygon.io) + +Research notes and code examples for retrieving real-time and end-of-day +prices for multiple tickers. Scoped to what FinAlly needs: batch price +lookups for a watchlist, plus historical bars for charts. + +Verified against the live API and `https://massive.com/docs/llms.txt` on +2026-08-27. + +--- + +## 1. The Rebrand + +Polygon.io became **Massive** on 2025-10-30. + +| Was | Now | +|---|---| +| `polygon.io` | `massive.com` | +| `api.polygon.io` | `api.massive.com` | +| `POLYGON_API_KEY` | `MASSIVE_API_KEY` | +| `pip install polygon-api-client` | `pip install massive` | + +Existing keys, accounts and endpoint paths are unchanged. `api.polygon.io` +still resolves "for an extended period" but new code should target +`api.massive.com`. Endpoint paths (`/v2/aggs/...`, `/v2/snapshot/...`) were +not renamed, so most Polygon.io tutorials and StackOverflow answers still +apply verbatim. + +The authoritative machine-readable index is +`https://massive.com/docs/llms.txt`. Every documentation page has a `.md` +twin, e.g. `https://massive.com/docs/rest/stocks/aggregates/custom-bars.md`. + +--- + +## 2. Authentication + +Base URL: `https://api.massive.com` + +Two accepted methods. Both were confirmed working against the live API. + +**Bearer header (preferred).** Keeps the key out of URLs, logs and proxy +access records. + +``` +Authorization: Bearer +``` + +**Query parameter (fallback).** Useful for `curl` spelunking and for the +handful of clients that cannot set headers. + +``` +GET /v2/aggs/ticker/AAPL/prev?apiKey= +``` + +Get a key at `https://massive.com/dashboard/keys` (signup: +`https://massive.com/dashboard/signup`). Read it from the `MASSIVE_API_KEY` +environment variable; never hardcode it. The official Python client reads +that variable automatically. + +--- + +## 3. Plans, Rate Limits and Recency + +This table drives every design decision downstream. Read it before choosing +an endpoint. + +| Plan | Price | Rate limit | Recency | History | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| Stocks Basic | Free | **5 calls/min** | **End-of-day only** | 2 years | +| Stocks Starter | $29/mo | Unlimited | 15-minute delayed | 5 years | +| Stocks Developer | $79/mo | Unlimited | 15-minute delayed | 10 years | +| Stocks Advanced | $199/mo | Unlimited | Real-time | 20+ years | + +Two consequences that are easy to miss: + +1. **The snapshot endpoints are not on the free plan.** Both Full Market + Snapshot and Unified Snapshot are marked "Not included" for Stocks + Basic. A free key gets a 403 on them. +2. **A free key returns end-of-day data.** Prices from a Basic key do not + change during the trading day. Any UI built on a free key will render + correct but motionless prices. + +5 calls/min is one call every 12 seconds, so a 15-second poll interval +(4 calls/min) leaves headroom for the occasional retry. + +--- + +## 4. Endpoint Reference + +### 4.1 Full Market Snapshot — batch real-time prices + +The natural fit for a watchlist: one call, many tickers, current price plus +the previous close needed for a daily-change figure. + +``` +GET /v2/snapshot/locale/us/markets/stocks/tickers?tickers=AAPL,GOOGL,MSFT +``` + +| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes | +|---|---|---|---| +| `tickers` | string | No | Case-sensitive, comma separated, no spaces. Omit to get all 10,000+ tickers. | +| `include_otc` | boolean | No | Default `false`. | + +Plan access: Starter and above. Recency: 15-minute delayed on +Starter/Developer, real-time on Advanced/Business. + +Response (trimmed to the fields FinAlly uses): + +```json +{ + "count": 1, + "status": "OK", + "tickers": [ + { + "ticker": "BCAT", + "todaysChange": -0.124, + "todaysChangePerc": -0.601, + "updated": 1605192894630916600, + "day": { "o": 20.64, "h": 20.64, "l": 20.506, "c": 20.506, "v": 37216, "vw": 20.616 }, + "prevDay": { "o": 20.79, "h": 21.0, "l": 20.5, "c": 20.63, "v": 292738, "vw": 20.6939 }, + "min": { "o": 20.506, "h": 20.506, "l": 20.506, "c": 20.506, "v": 5000, "n": 1, "t": 1684428600000 }, + "lastTrade": { "p": 20.506, "s": 2416, "t": 1605192894630916600, "x": 4, "i": "71675577320245" }, + "lastQuote": { "p": 20.5, "s": 13, "P": 20.6, "S": 22, "t": 1605192959994246100 } + } + ] +} +``` + +Picking the current price, most robust first: + +1. `lastTrade.p` — the actual last print. Absent unless the plan includes + trades. +2. `min.c` — close of the most recent minute bar. Present on all snapshot + plans. +3. `day.c` — close of the running daily bar. Always present, but it is + `0` before the first trade of the session. + +Previous close is `prevDay.c`. `todaysChange` and `todaysChangePerc` are +precomputed by the server; prefer them over recomputing. + +Snapshot data is **cleared daily at 3:30 AM EST** and repopulates as +exchanges report, starting as early as 4:00 AM EST. Between those times +`day` and `lastTrade` may be empty or zero. + +### 4.2 Unified Snapshot — batch across asset classes + +``` +GET /v3/snapshot?ticker.any_of=AAPL,GOOGL,MSFT&limit=250 +``` + +| Parameter | Type | Notes | +|---|---|---| +| `ticker.any_of` | string | Comma separated, **max 250 tickers**. | +| `type` | string | `stocks`, `options`, `fx`, `crypto`, `indices`. | +| `limit` | integer | Default 10, **max 250**. Set it explicitly. | +| `order`, `sort` | string | Ordering controls. | + +Plan access: Starter and above. Same recency tiers as 4.1. + +The response uses readable field names rather than OHLC shorthand, and +reports errors per ticker instead of failing the whole request: + +```json +{ + "status": "OK", + "results": [ + { + "ticker": "AAPL", + "type": "stocks", + "name": "Apple Inc.", + "market_status": "closed", + "session": { + "open": 22.49, "high": 22.49, "low": 21.35, "close": 21.4, + "previous_close": 22.45, "change": -1.05, "change_percent": -4.67, + "volume": 37, + "early_trading_change": -0.39, "late_trading_change": 1.2 + }, + "last_trade": { "price": 0.05, "size": 2, "last_updated": 1675280958783136800 }, + "last_minute": { "open": 412.1, "close": 412.05, "volume": 610 } + }, + { "ticker": "TSLAAPL", "error": "NOT_FOUND", "message": "Ticker not found." } + ] +} +``` + +Two reasons to prefer this over 4.1 despite the newer path: `market_status` +comes back inline (no second call), and a bad ticker yields an `error` entry +rather than silently vanishing from `tickers[]`. The cost is the 250-ticker +cap and mandatory `limit` handling. + +### 4.3 Daily Market Summary (grouped daily bars) — the free-tier workhorse + +``` +GET /v2/aggs/grouped/locale/us/market/stocks/2026-08-26?adjusted=true +``` + +| Parameter | Required | Notes | +|---|---|---| +| `date` (path) | Yes | `YYYY-MM-DD`. Must be a trading day. | +| `adjusted` | No | Default `true` (split-adjusted). | +| `include_otc` | No | Default `false`. | + +Plan access: **all plans, including Basic.** Recency: end-of-day on Basic. + +Every US ticker for that date in a single response. That is the important +property: one API call covers an entire watchlist regardless of its size, +which fits inside the free tier's 5 calls/min with room to spare. + +```json +{ + "adjusted": true, + "queryCount": 3, + "resultsCount": 3, + "status": "OK", + "results": [ + { "T": "VSAT", "o": 34.9, "h": 35.47, "l": 34.21, "c": 34.24, + "v": 312583, "vw": 34.4736, "n": 4966, "t": 1602705600000 } + ] +} +``` + +`T` is the ticker. Filter the array down to the watchlist client-side. + +Caveats: a non-trading date returns `resultsCount: 0` with `status: "OK"`, +not an error, so walk backwards through calendar days (or consult +`/v1/marketstatus/now`) to find the last session. Basic plans also see a +delay of roughly one day before a session's grouped bar is published. + +### 4.4 Previous Day Bar + +``` +GET /v2/aggs/ticker/AAPL/prev?adjusted=true +``` + +Plan access: all plans. One ticker per call, so a 10-ticker watchlist costs +10 calls — twice the free tier's per-minute budget. Use 4.3 for batches; +this endpoint is for one-off lookups such as validating a ticker the user +just added. + +```json +{ + "ticker": "AAPL", "adjusted": true, "queryCount": 1, "resultsCount": 1, + "status": "OK", "request_id": "6a7e466379af0a71039d60cc78e72282", + "results": [ + { "T": "AAPL", "o": 115.55, "h": 117.59, "l": 114.13, "c": 115.97, + "v": 131704427, "vw": 116.3058, "t": 1605042000000 } + ] +} +``` + +### 4.5 Daily Ticker Summary (open/close) + +``` +GET /v1/open-close/AAPL/2026-08-26?adjusted=true +``` + +Plan access: all plans. Returns spelled-out fields plus pre-market and +after-hours prices, which the aggregate endpoints do not expose. + +```json +{ + "status": "OK", "symbol": "AAPL", "from": "2023-01-09", + "open": 324.66, "high": 326.2, "low": 322.3, "close": 325.12, + "preMarket": 324.5, "afterHours": 322.1, "volume": 26122646 +} +``` + +### 4.6 Custom Bars — history for charts + +``` +GET /v2/aggs/ticker/AAPL/range/1/day/2026-06-01/2026-08-27?adjusted=true&sort=asc&limit=5000 +``` + +| Parameter | Notes | +|---|---| +| `multiplier` (path) | Size of the timespan multiplier, e.g. `5`. | +| `timespan` (path) | `minute`, `hour`, `day`, `week`, `month`, `quarter`, `year`. | +| `from`, `to` (path) | `YYYY-MM-DD` or millisecond epoch. | +| `sort` | `asc` (oldest first) or `desc`. | +| `limit` | Default 5000, **max 50000**. | + +Plan access: all plans, subject to per-plan history depth (Basic: 2 years). +Windows with no qualifying trades produce no bar at all rather than a +zero-volume bar, so never assume evenly spaced timestamps. Responses may +paginate via `next_url`. + +This is the endpoint that seeds a chart with real history before live ticks +start arriving. Note that FinAlly's spec builds sparklines purely from the +SSE stream since page load, so this is optional for the core build. + +### 4.7 Market Status + +``` +GET /v1/marketstatus/now +``` + +Plan access: all plans, real-time on every tier. + +```json +{ + "market": "extended-hours", + "earlyHours": false, + "afterHours": true, + "exchanges": { "nasdaq": "extended-hours", "nyse": "extended-hours", "otc": "closed" }, + "currencies": { "crypto": "open", "fx": "open" }, + "serverTime": "2020-11-10T17:37:37-05:00" +} +``` + +`market` is one of `open`, `closed`, `extended-hours`. Cheap enough to poll +once a minute; useful for backing off the price poller when the market is +closed and for driving a "market closed" badge in the header. + +--- + +## 5. Choosing Endpoints for FinAlly + +| Key's plan | Batch price endpoint | Calls per poll | Poll interval | What the user sees | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| Basic (free) | `/v2/aggs/grouped/.../{date}` | 1 | 15s | Correct but static EOD prices | +| Starter / Developer | `/v2/snapshot/.../tickers?tickers=` | 1 | 2-5s | Prices moving, 15 min behind | +| Advanced / Business | `/v2/snapshot/.../tickers?tickers=` | 1 | 1-2s | Live prices | + +Every row is a single call per poll, so the poller's shape does not change +with watchlist size. + +The recommendation for FinAlly is to implement the snapshot path and fall +back to grouped daily bars on a 403 or when the operator declares a free +key. See `MARKET_INTERFACE.md` for how this is wrapped. + +Worth stating plainly: a free Massive key produces a trading terminal whose +prices never move. The built-in simulator is the better default for demos +and for the course, which is why `PLAN.md` makes it the default. Real data +becomes worthwhile at the Starter tier and above. + +--- + +## 6. Code Examples + +### 6.1 Async batch fetch with httpx (recommended for FinAlly) + +FastAPI runs on asyncio and the official client is synchronous urllib3, so a +direct `httpx.AsyncClient` avoids blocking the event loop for the two +endpoints this project actually needs. + +```python +"""Batch price fetches against the Massive REST API.""" + +import os +from datetime import date, timedelta + +import httpx + +BASE_URL = "https://api.massive.com" + + +def _client() -> httpx.AsyncClient: + """Build a client with the API key bound as a Bearer token.""" + api_key = os.environ["MASSIVE_API_KEY"] + return httpx.AsyncClient( + base_url=BASE_URL, + headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"}, + timeout=httpx.Timeout(10.0, connect=5.0), + ) + + +async def fetch_snapshots(client: httpx.AsyncClient, tickers: list[str]) -> dict[str, dict]: + """Return {ticker: snapshot} for the given tickers. Starter plan and above.""" + response = await client.get( + "/v2/snapshot/locale/us/markets/stocks/tickers", + params={"tickers": ",".join(tickers)}, + ) + response.raise_for_status() + return {row["ticker"]: row for row in response.json().get("tickers", [])} + + +async def fetch_grouped_daily( + client: httpx.AsyncClient, tickers: list[str], on: date +) -> dict[str, dict]: + """Return {ticker: daily bar} from the grouped endpoint. Works on the free plan. + + Walks back up to five calendar days to skip weekends and holidays. + """ + wanted = set(tickers) + for offset in range(5): + day = on - timedelta(days=offset) + response = await client.get( + f"/v2/aggs/grouped/locale/us/market/stocks/{day.isoformat()}", + params={"adjusted": "true"}, + ) + response.raise_for_status() + results = response.json().get("results") or [] + if results: + return {row["T"]: row for row in results if row["T"] in wanted} + return {} +``` + +Reading a current price out of a snapshot, in preference order: + +```python +def snapshot_price(snapshot: dict) -> float | None: + """Best available current price from a v2 snapshot row.""" + for value in ( + snapshot.get("lastTrade", {}).get("p"), + snapshot.get("min", {}).get("c"), + snapshot.get("day", {}).get("c"), + ): + if value: + return float(value) + return None +``` + +### 6.2 Official Python client + +``` +uv add massive +``` + +`RESTClient` reads `MASSIVE_API_KEY` from the environment when no key is +passed. It is synchronous; in an async service, call it through +`asyncio.to_thread`. + +```python +from massive import RESTClient + +client = RESTClient() # reads MASSIVE_API_KEY + +# Batch snapshot (Starter and above) +for snapshot in client.get_snapshot_all("stocks", ["AAPL", "GOOGL", "MSFT"]): + print(snapshot.ticker, snapshot.last_trade.price, snapshot.prev_day.close) + +# Grouped daily bars, entire market in one call (all plans) +for bar in client.get_grouped_daily_aggs("2026-08-26", adjusted=True): + print(bar.ticker, bar.close) + +# Previous close for one ticker (all plans) +prev = client.get_previous_close_agg("AAPL") +print(prev) + +# Historical bars for a chart +bars = list( + client.list_aggs("AAPL", 1, "day", "2026-06-01", "2026-08-27", limit=5000) +) +``` + +Relevant method names, since they still use Polygon-era vocabulary: + +| Method | Endpoint | +|---|---| +| `get_snapshot_all(market_type, tickers)` | `/v2/snapshot/.../tickers` | +| `get_snapshot_ticker(market_type, ticker)` | `/v2/snapshot/.../tickers/{ticker}` | +| `list_universal_snapshots(ticker_any_of=[...])` | `/v3/snapshot` | +| `get_grouped_daily_aggs(date)` | `/v2/aggs/grouped/...` | +| `get_previous_close_agg(ticker)` | `/v2/aggs/ticker/{t}/prev` | +| `get_daily_open_close_agg(ticker, date)` | `/v1/open-close/{t}/{date}` | +| `list_aggs(ticker, multiplier, timespan, from_, to)` | `/v2/aggs/ticker/{t}/range/...` | + +Pagination is automatic on `list_*` methods; `limit` is the page size, not a +total. Pass `pagination=False` to `RESTClient` to make `limit` a hard cap. + +Note the package situation on PyPI: `massive` (v2.8.0) is the current +official client, `polygon-api-client` (v1.16.3) is the frozen predecessor, +and `massive-api-client` is an unrelated third-party async wrapper. Install +`massive`. + +### 6.3 curl + +```bash +# Batch snapshot +curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $MASSIVE_API_KEY" \ + "https://api.massive.com/v2/snapshot/locale/us/markets/stocks/tickers?tickers=AAPL,GOOGL,MSFT" + +# Grouped daily bars, free plan +curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $MASSIVE_API_KEY" \ + "https://api.massive.com/v2/aggs/grouped/locale/us/market/stocks/2026-08-26?adjusted=true" + +# Market status +curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $MASSIVE_API_KEY" \ + "https://api.massive.com/v1/marketstatus/now" +``` + +--- + +## 7. Errors and Retries + +Every response carries `status` and `request_id`. Quote `request_id` when +contacting support. + +| Status | Body | Meaning | Response | +|---|---|---|---| +| 401 | `{"status":"ERROR","error":"API Key was not provided"}` | No key sent | Fail fast at startup | +| 401 | `{"status":"ERROR","error":"Unknown API Key"}` | Bad key | Fail fast at startup | +| 403 | `NOT_AUTHORIZED` | Plan lacks this endpoint | Fall back to a free-tier endpoint | +| 429 | Rate limit exceeded | Over the plan's calls/min | Back off, then retry | +| 404 | | Unknown ticker or path | Surface to the user | +| 5xx | | Upstream trouble | Retry with backoff | + +The 401 bodies above are verbatim from the live API. A 200 with +`resultsCount: 0` is normal for a non-trading date and is not an error. + +The official client retries 413, 429, 499, 500, 502, 503 and 504 with +exponential backoff (factor 0.1). Mirror that policy when using httpx: + +```python +import asyncio + +import httpx + +RETRY_STATUS = {413, 429, 499, 500, 502, 503, 504} + + +async def get_with_retry( + client: httpx.AsyncClient, url: str, params: dict, attempts: int = 4 +) -> httpx.Response: + """GET with exponential backoff on transient statuses.""" + for attempt in range(attempts): + response = await client.get(url, params=params) + if response.status_code not in RETRY_STATUS: + response.raise_for_status() + return response + await asyncio.sleep(0.2 * 2**attempt) + response.raise_for_status() + return response +``` + +Never retry a 401 or 403; the answer will not change. + +--- + +## 8. Field Shorthand and Gotchas + +The aggregate and v2 snapshot endpoints use single-letter keys: + +| Key | Meaning | +|---|---| +| `T` | Ticker | +| `o` `h` `l` `c` | Open, high, low, close | +| `v` | Volume | +| `vw` | Volume-weighted average price | +| `n` | Number of transactions | +| `t` | Timestamp | +| `av` | Accumulated volume for the day (minute bars) | +| `p` / `s` | Trade or bid price / size | +| `P` / `S` | Ask price / size (uppercase is the ask side) | +| `x` | Exchange id | + +Things that bite: + +- **Timestamp units differ.** Aggregate `t` is **milliseconds**; snapshot + `updated`, `lastTrade.t` and `lastQuote.t` are **nanoseconds**. Divide by + 1e9 before `datetime.fromtimestamp`. +- **Tickers are case-sensitive.** Uppercase everything on input. +- **A missing ticker vanishes silently** from `/v2/snapshot`'s `tickers[]` + array. Only `/v3/snapshot` reports it as an explicit `error` entry. +- **`day.c` is 0 pre-market** before the first print. Fall back to + `prevDay.c` so the UI never renders a $0.00 price. +- **`adjusted` defaults to true.** Historical bars are split-adjusted, so a + cached price from before a split will not match a fresh fetch. +- **Snapshots reset at 3:30 AM EST** and repopulate from about 4:00 AM EST. +- **Non-trading dates return 200 with an empty `results`.** Handle the + empty case; do not treat it as a failure. + +--- + +## Sources + +- [Massive API docs index (llms.txt)](https://massive.com/docs/llms.txt) +- [Full Market Snapshot](https://massive.com/docs/rest/stocks/snapshots/full-market-snapshot) +- [Unified Snapshot](https://massive.com/docs/rest/stocks/snapshots/unified-snapshot) +- [Daily Market Summary (grouped daily bars)](https://massive.com/docs/rest/stocks/aggregates/daily-market-summary) +- [Previous Day Bar](https://massive.com/docs/rest/stocks/aggregates/previous-day-bar) +- [Daily Ticker Summary](https://massive.com/docs/rest/stocks/aggregates/daily-ticker-summary) +- [Custom Bars](https://massive.com/docs/rest/stocks/aggregates/custom-bars) +- [Market Status](https://massive.com/docs/rest/stocks/market-operations/market-status) +- [Pricing and rate limits](https://massive.com/pricing) +- [Official Python client](https://github.com/massive-com/client-python) +- [massive on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/massive/) diff --git a/planning/REVIEW.md b/planning/REVIEW.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e2bb7be52 --- /dev/null +++ b/planning/REVIEW.md @@ -0,0 +1,216 @@ +# Change Review + +## 2026-08-27 — Market data design documents + +**Reviewer note:** the project convention in `.claude/agents/change-reviewer.md` +is to delegate this to `codex` as an independent reviewer. `codex exec` failed +with `You've hit your usage limit ... try again at Sep 16th, 2026`, so this is +a **self-review by the same agent that authored the changes** and does not +satisfy the independence requirement. Re-run the codex review when the quota +resets. + +**Scope:** three untracked files, no tracked files modified. + +``` +?? planning/MARKET_INTERFACE.md +?? planning/MARKET_SIMULATOR.md +?? planning/MASSIVE_API.md +``` + +These are design documents, so "correctness" here means the specified code +would work as described and the three documents agree with each other and +with `PLAN.md`. Two defects below were reproduced by executing the code. + +--- + +### 1. Grouped-daily fallback can issue 5 API calls per fetch — High + +`MARKET_INTERFACE.md` §6 (`_fetch_grouped`) and `MASSIVE_API.md` §6.1 +(`fetch_grouped_daily`) both loop `for offset in range(5)`, calling the API +once per candidate date until one returns data. + +Both documents state the opposite invariant: + +- `MARKET_INTERFACE.md` §6: "One HTTP call per fetch, in either mode." +- `MASSIVE_API.md` §5: every row of the endpoint table claims 1 call per poll. + +On a Monday the loop burns a call on Monday (not yet published on an EOD +plan), Sunday and Saturday before reaching Friday's bar — four calls. The +free tier allows five per minute, so a single poll can nearly exhaust the +budget, and the next poll 15 seconds later gets a 429. + +This matters precisely because grouped-daily *is* the free-tier path, which +is where the rate limit binds. + +Fix: resolve the trading date once and cache it, re-resolving only when the +cached date's data goes stale. + +```python +async def _fetch_grouped(self, tickers): + if self._session_date is None: + self._session_date = await self._resolve_session_date() + rows = await self._grouped_bars(self._session_date) + ... +``` + +### 2. The contract test for unknown tickers cannot pass for both providers — High + +`MARKET_INTERFACE.md` §10: + +```python +async def test_unknown_ticker_is_omitted_not_raised(provider): + quotes = await provider.fetch(["NOTATICKER"]) + assert "NOTATICKER" not in quotes +``` + +Reproduced against the simulator from `MARKET_SIMULATOR.md` §7: + +``` +simulator fetch(['NOTATICKER']) -> {'NOTATICKER': (172.47, 172.22)} +assertion passes for simulator: False +``` + +This is not just a bad test. The two documents specify contradictory +behaviour for the same interface method: + +- `MARKET_INTERFACE.md` §4: "Tickers with no available price are omitted." +- `MARKET_SIMULATOR.md` §6: "the simulator must price anything", via + `derive_spec`. + +The simulator never omits; Massive omits anything unrecognised. So the +abstract contract as written is not one both implementations honour, which +undercuts the stated goal of provider-agnostic downstream code — a watchlist +add of a typo'd symbol succeeds silently under the simulator and fails under +Massive. + +Decide which is the contract and make both documents say it. The simulator's +behaviour is the more useful one for a demo, so the likely resolution is to +have `MassiveProvider` validate unknown symbols at watchlist-add time +(`/v2/aggs/ticker/{t}/prev`, free on all plans) and drop this from the shared +contract suite into provider-specific tests. + +### 3. The session-rollover test is flaky — Medium + +`MARKET_SIMULATOR.md` §10: + +```python +assert quotes["AAPL"].previous_close == pytest.approx(quotes["AAPL"].price, abs=0.01) +``` + +`_advance` sets `closes` from `prices` *before* stepping, so after the +rollover tick the price is already one step away from the close. Measured +across 60 seeds: + +``` +mean |price - prev_close| 0.127, max 0.420 +seeds passing abs=0.01: 6/60 +``` + +It passed in the authoring run only because `seed=4` happened to draw a small +move. The "Measured behaviour" table added to §10 is therefore built partly +on a test that fails 90% of the time. + +Fix: assert the property that actually matters — that the close moved off the +seed price — rather than a tolerance that encodes one lucky draw. + +```python +assert quotes["AAPL"].previous_close != 190.00 +assert quotes["AAPL"].previous_close == pytest.approx(quotes["AAPL"].price, abs=1.0) +``` + +### 4. `previous_close` carries two different meanings — Medium + +`MARKET_INTERFACE.md` §6 `_fetch_grouped` maps `previous_close` to `row["o"]`, +the session *open*, while snapshot mode maps it to `prevDay.c`, the prior +session's close. The document acknowledges this ("the honest reading of the +only data a free key has") but leaves one field meaning two things depending +on a mode the caller cannot see. + +Downstream, `Quote.change_percent` feeds the watchlist's daily-change column, +so the same UI element silently switches from "change vs prior close" to +"change across that session". Either rename to reflect the reference point, +or carry the reference explicitly so the frontend can label it. + +### 5. `PriceCache.prune` is never called — Low + +Defined in `MARKET_INTERFACE.md` §7, invoked nowhere in any of the three +documents. `CLAUDE.md` says not to overengineer. Either wire it to watchlist +removal or delete it. + +### 6. Poll cadence drifts by the fetch duration — Low + +`PriceEngine._run` sleeps `poll_interval` *after* the fetch, so the true +period is `fetch_time + poll_interval`. Negligible for the simulator, +material for Massive, where a slow response pushes a nominal 15s poll toward +16-17s. Not a correctness bug, but the free-tier budgeting in +`MASSIVE_API.md` §3 assumes a fixed cadence. Worth a sentence, or use a +deadline-based sleep. + +### 7. Test dependencies unstated — Low + +The suites in `MARKET_INTERFACE.md` §10 and `MARKET_SIMULATOR.md` §10 use +bare `async def` tests and an `httpx_mock` fixture, which need +`pytest-asyncio` (with `asyncio_mode = "auto"`) and `pytest-httpx`. Neither is +mentioned. `statistics.correlation` also requires Python 3.10+, satisfied by +`PLAN.md`'s 3.12 but worth pinning. + +### 8. One unverified claim — Low + +`MASSIVE_API.md` §4.3 states Basic plans "see a delay of roughly one day +before a session's grouped bar is published". This was inferred from the +end-of-day recency tier, not confirmed in the documentation or against a live +free key. It should be marked as inferred or verified before anyone plans +around it. Everything else in that document was checked against +`massive.com/docs` or the live API. + +--- + +### Holding up well + +- The free-tier findings are the substantive result: snapshot endpoints + return 403 on Stocks Basic, and grouped-daily is the one batch endpoint + that is free. This corrects `PLAN.md` §6, which assumed snapshot access on + the free tier. +- Auth methods, error bodies and the `api.massive.com` base URL were + confirmed against the live API rather than copied from documentation. +- The simulator's core math verifies: realized volatility 0.2804 against a + 0.28 target, correlations 0.597/0.355 against 0.60/0.35. The Ito correction + and the `dt` trading-calendar conversion are both right, which is where + this usually goes wrong. +- The two determinism traps called out in `MARKET_SIMULATOR.md` §8 (unsorted + set iteration, built-in `hash()`) are real and easy to trip. + +### Verdict + +No blocking issues for documents that have not been implemented yet, but +findings 1 and 2 are specification defects rather than typos: an +implementer following these documents literally would write a rate-limit bug +and a contract test that cannot pass. Both should be resolved before the +backend agent picks this up. Findings 3-8 can be folded in at the same time. + +The independence requirement was not met; re-run the codex review when its +quota resets. + +--- + +## 2026-08-27 — Independent review re-attempt + +`codex exec` was re-run per `.claude/agents/change-reviewer.md` and failed +again with the same quota error: + +``` +ERROR: You've hit your usage limit. ... try again at Sep 16th, 2026 9:00 PM. +``` + +The independence requirement therefore still stands unmet. The findings above +were re-checked against the current file contents and all still apply — none +have been fixed: + +| Finding | Check | Status | +|---|---|---| +| 1 | `for offset in range(5)` at `MARKET_INTERFACE.md:316`, `MASSIVE_API.md:385`; "One HTTP call per fetch" still at `MARKET_INTERFACE.md:360` | open | +| 2 | `MARKET_INTERFACE.md:168` says omitted; `MARKET_SIMULATOR.md:315` still `UNIVERSE.get(ticker) or derive_spec(ticker)` | open | +| 3 | `abs=0.01` still at `MARKET_SIMULATOR.md:497` | open | +| 5 | `prune` still defined at `MARKET_INTERFACE.md:426`, called nowhere | open | + +Re-run the codex review after Sep 16 2026 for genuine independence. From 662690433f44c0c51270a74eb5533172017ee8c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alec Reichert Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:06:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add consolidated market data backend design Writes planning/MARKET_DATA_DESIGN.md: an implementation-ready design for the market data subsystem, consolidating MARKET_INTERFACE.md, MARKET_SIMULATOR.md and MASSIVE_API.md into one document with runnable code for the provider interface, GBM simulator, Massive REST client, price cache, poll engine, SSE endpoint and FastAPI wiring. All eight REVIEW.md findings are resolved in the design, notably: - grouped-daily fallback now spends at most one HTTP call per fetch (was up to five, against a 5 calls/min free tier) - symbol existence moves out of the fetch contract into validate_ticker(), called at watchlist-add time, so both providers honour one contract - previous_close becomes reference + an explicit basis field - PriceCache.prune is wired to the engine; poll cadence is deadline-based Every code block and test in the document was executed before being written down; the 23 tests in the testing section pass as written. --- planning/MARKET_DATA_DESIGN.md | 2021 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 2021 insertions(+) create mode 100644 planning/MARKET_DATA_DESIGN.md diff --git a/planning/MARKET_DATA_DESIGN.md b/planning/MARKET_DATA_DESIGN.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4cb6759cb --- /dev/null +++ b/planning/MARKET_DATA_DESIGN.md @@ -0,0 +1,2021 @@ +# Market Data Backend — Detailed Design + +Implementation-ready design for FinAlly's market data subsystem: one unified +provider API, two implementations (GBM simulator and the Massive REST client), +a price cache, a polling engine, and the SSE endpoint the frontend consumes. + +This document consolidates and supersedes three planning documents: + +| Source document | What this design takes from it | +|---|---| +| `MARKET_INTERFACE.md` | Pull-based provider interface, cache/engine split, wiring | +| `MARKET_SIMULATOR.md` | GBM math, accelerated clock, two-factor correlation, ticker universe | +| `MASSIVE_API.md` | Endpoint reference, plan/rate-limit matrix, response shapes, auth | +| `REVIEW.md` | Eight findings against the above; every one is resolved here (§4) | + +Every code block below was executed before being written down. Measured +numbers appear in §7.8 and §9.5; they come from running this exact code. + +--- + +## Table of Contents + +1. [Scope and Status](#1-scope-and-status) +2. [Architecture](#2-architecture) +3. [Module Layout](#3-module-layout) +4. [Contract Decisions](#4-contract-decisions) +5. [Types — `types.py`](#5-types) +6. [The Provider Interface — `provider.py`](#6-the-provider-interface) +7. [Simulator — `simulator.py`](#7-simulator) +8. [Massive Client — `massive.py`](#8-massive-client) +9. [Price Cache — `cache.py`](#9-price-cache) +10. [Price Engine — `engine.py`](#10-price-engine) +11. [Provider Selection — `factory.py`](#11-provider-selection) +12. [SSE Streaming — `stream.py`](#12-sse-streaming) +13. [Application Wiring](#13-application-wiring) +14. [Watchlist Coordination](#14-watchlist-coordination) +15. [Error Handling and Edge Cases](#15-error-handling-and-edge-cases) +16. [Testing Strategy](#16-testing-strategy) +17. [Configuration Summary](#17-configuration-summary) +18. [Migration from the Existing Implementation](#18-migration-from-the-existing-implementation) +19. [Implementation Checklist](#19-implementation-checklist) + +--- + +## 1. Scope and Status + +In scope: everything between "a ticker symbol" and "a price on the screen" — +the provider abstraction, both implementations, the cache, the background +poller, the SSE endpoint, and the two hooks the rest of the backend needs +(`current_price()` for trade fills, `validate_symbol()` for watchlist adds). + +Out of scope, deliberately (`PLAN.md` does not need them): historical bars, +WebSocket streaming, order books, quotes/volume analytics, per-provider rate +limiters. §11 of `MARKET_INTERFACE.md` explains each omission; nothing here +reopens them. + +**Relationship to the code already in the repo.** `backend/app/market/` +contains a working push-based implementation built from +`planning/archive/MARKET_DATA_DESIGN.md` (summarised in +`MARKET_DATA_SUMMARY.md`). This design replaces it in place — same package +path, different internals — for three reasons the old shape cannot deliver: + +- **Daily change %.** `PLAN.md` §10 requires a daily change column in the + watchlist and positions table. The old `PriceUpdate` carries only + tick-over-tick change; there is no previous-close anywhere in it. +- **Free-tier Massive support.** The old client assumes snapshot access, + which returns 403 on Stocks Basic (`MASSIVE_API.md` §3). +- **Testability.** Providers that own their own background tasks are hard to + drive deterministically; a pull-based `fetch()` is a plain async function. + +§18 maps every old name to its replacement. Existing tests in +`backend/tests/market/` are replaced alongside the modules they cover. + +--- + +## 2. Architecture + +``` + create_provider() reads MASSIVE_API_KEY + | + +----------------+----------------+ + | | + SimulatorProvider MassiveProvider + (no API key, GBM) (REST, snapshot or grouped) + | | + +----------------+----------------+ + | + MarketDataProvider + .fetch(tickers) -> {ticker: Quote} + .validate_ticker(ticker) -> bool + | + PriceEngine one background task + | polls on provider.poll_interval + v + PriceCache latest PriceTick per ticker + | + monotonic version counter + +----------------+----------------+ + | | + GET /api/stream/prices portfolio valuation, + (SSE, pushes on change, ~500ms) trade fills, chat context +``` + +Three splits carry the design: + +- **Providers own no timers and no tasks.** They answer `fetch()` when asked. + Timing lives in the engine, so both implementations stay trivial to test + and neither can leak a task. +- **Poll cadence is independent of push cadence.** The engine polls as fast + as the provider allows (0.5s simulated, 15s on a free Massive key); SSE + pushes from the cache whenever the cache changes, checking every 500ms. A + slow upstream never stalls the stream — prices go stale, not blank. +- **The cache is the only definition of "current price."** Trade execution, + portfolio valuation and the LLM's context all read it, so a trade always + fills at exactly the price the user was looking at. + +--- + +## 3. Module Layout + +``` +backend/app/market/ +├── __init__.py # public exports — the only import surface for the rest of the app +├── types.py # Quote, PriceTick, Direction, ChangeBasis +├── provider.py # MarketDataProvider ABC + symbol normalisation +├── simulator.py # SimulatorProvider, TickerSpec, UNIVERSE +├── massive.py # MassiveProvider +├── cache.py # PriceCache +├── engine.py # PriceEngine background task +├── stream.py # create_stream_router() — GET /api/stream/prices +└── factory.py # create_provider() +``` + +```python +# backend/app/market/__init__.py +"""Market data: one interface, a simulator, a Massive REST client, an SSE feed.""" + +from .cache import PriceCache +from .engine import PriceEngine +from .factory import create_provider +from .massive import MassiveProvider +from .provider import MarketDataProvider, normalize_symbol +from .simulator import SimulatorProvider +from .stream import create_stream_router +from .types import ChangeBasis, Direction, PriceTick, Quote + +__all__ = [ + "ChangeBasis", + "Direction", + "MarketDataProvider", + "MassiveProvider", + "PriceCache", + "PriceEngine", + "PriceTick", + "Quote", + "SimulatorProvider", + "create_provider", + "create_stream_router", + "normalize_symbol", +] +``` + +Import boundary: the rest of the backend imports from `app.market` only. +Nothing outside the package imports `simulator` or `massive` directly, so +adding or swapping a provider touches one file (`factory.py`). + +--- + +## 4. Contract Decisions + +`REVIEW.md` raised eight findings against the source documents. Each is +resolved below; the resolution is what the code in this document implements. + +| # | Finding | Resolution here | +|---|---|---| +| 1 | Grouped-daily fallback could burn 5 API calls per fetch | Lazy date resolution: **at most one HTTP call per fetch, zero while the session bar is cached** (§8.3) | +| 2 | "Unknown tickers are omitted" is a contract the simulator cannot honour | Contract narrowed to `set(result) ⊆ set(requested)`; symbol existence is a separate `validate_ticker()` called at watchlist-add time (§6, §14) | +| 3 | Session-rollover test asserted a lucky tolerance | Test asserts the property that matters — the close moved off the seed and tracks the price within $1 (§16.3) | +| 4 | `previous_close` silently meant two different things | Renamed to `reference` + explicit `basis` field (`"prev_close"` \| `"session_open"`), carried through to the SSE payload so the UI can label the column (§5) | +| 5 | `PriceCache.prune` was dead code | Wired: the engine prunes to the current ticker set on every poll (§10) | +| 6 | Poll cadence drifted by the fetch duration | Deadline-based sleep; measured 6 × 0.1s polls with a 0.05s fetch take 0.62s, not 0.9s (§10) | +| 7 | Test dependencies unstated | `pytest-asyncio` with `asyncio_mode = "auto"` (already configured); HTTP mocking uses `httpx.MockTransport`, so no `pytest-httpx` dependency (§16) | +| 8 | Unverified claim about free-tier grouped-bar delay | Marked inferred in §8.1; the code does not depend on it | + +Two further decisions this design adds: + +- **`fetch()` is order-independent.** The simulator sorts and de-duplicates + its ticker list before drawing, so `fetch(["AAPL","JPM"])` and + `fetch(["JPM","AAPL"])` produce identical paths from the same seed. Set + iteration order was the determinism trap flagged in `MARKET_SIMULATOR.md` + §8; sorting inside `fetch()` closes it at the source rather than relying on + every caller. +- **The cache suppresses no-op updates.** A quote identical to the stored + tick does not bump the version and does not re-push over SSE. This matters + on a free Massive key, where the same end-of-day price repeats forever. + +--- + +## 5. Types + +**File: `backend/app/market/types.py`** + +```python +"""Value types shared by every market data provider.""" + +from dataclasses import dataclass +from datetime import datetime +from typing import Literal + +Direction = Literal["up", "down", "flat"] +ChangeBasis = Literal["prev_close", "session_open"] + + +@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True) +class Quote: + """A price observation for one ticker, as reported by a provider. + + `reference` is the price the day's change is measured against, and + `basis` says which reference it is. Snapshot data and the simulator + report the prior session's close; free-tier grouped bars can only report + that session's open. + """ + + ticker: str + price: float + reference: float + timestamp: datetime + basis: ChangeBasis = "prev_close" + + @property + def change(self) -> float: + return self.price - self.reference + + @property + def change_percent(self) -> float: + if self.reference == 0: + return 0.0 + return (self.price - self.reference) / self.reference * 100 + + +@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True) +class PriceTick: + """A cached quote enriched with tick-over-tick movement for the UI.""" + + ticker: str + price: float + previous_price: float + reference: float + timestamp: datetime + basis: ChangeBasis + direction: Direction + + @property + def change(self) -> float: + return self.price - self.reference + + @property + def change_percent(self) -> float: + if self.reference == 0: + return 0.0 + return (self.price - self.reference) / self.reference * 100 + + def to_dict(self) -> dict: + """Wire format for SSE frames and REST responses.""" + return { + "ticker": self.ticker, + "price": round(self.price, 2), + "previous_price": round(self.previous_price, 2), + "reference": round(self.reference, 2), + "basis": self.basis, + "direction": self.direction, + "change": round(self.change, 2), + "change_percent": round(self.change_percent, 2), + "timestamp": self.timestamp.isoformat(), + } +``` + +Two "previous" values, because the UI needs two different things: + +- `previous_price` is the immediately preceding tick. It drives `direction`, + which drives the green/red flash animation. +- `reference` is the daily baseline. It drives the change % column in the + watchlist and positions table, and `basis` tells the frontend whether to + label that column "vs prev close" or "since open". + +Providers produce `Quote`. `PriceTick` is assembled by the cache, the only +component that knows what the previous tick was. Frozen dataclasses with +`slots=True`: nothing downstream can mutate a price, and ten tickers × +one tick each stays negligible. + +--- + +## 6. The Provider Interface + +**File: `backend/app/market/provider.py`** + +```python +"""Abstract interface every market data source implements.""" + +import re +from abc import ABC, abstractmethod +from collections.abc import Sequence + +from .types import Quote + +SYMBOL_RE = re.compile(r"^[A-Z][A-Z.\-]{0,9}$") + + +class MarketDataProvider(ABC): + """A pull-based source of current prices for a set of tickers. + + Implementations are cheap to construct and hold no background tasks. The + caller decides when to fetch; `poll_interval` is the provider's advice on + how often that should be, and may change at runtime (see MassiveProvider's + free-tier downgrade), so read it fresh each iteration. + """ + + name: str + poll_interval: float + + @abstractmethod + async def fetch(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> dict[str, Quote]: + """Return current quotes keyed by ticker. + + Contract: + * every key is one of `tickers`; a provider never invents symbols + * a ticker it cannot price is omitted, not raised and not faked + * an empty `tickers` returns `{}` without doing any I/O + * raises only on whole-request failures: network error, bad key + """ + + async def validate_ticker(self, ticker: str) -> bool: + """True if this provider can price the symbol. + + Called once, when a ticker is added to the watchlist — never in the + poll loop. The default accepts anything, which is correct for the + simulator; MassiveProvider overrides it with a real lookup. + """ + return True + + async def aclose(self) -> None: + """Release held resources. Safe to call more than once.""" + + +def normalize_symbol(raw: str) -> str | None: + """Uppercase and syntax-check a user-supplied symbol. None if implausible.""" + symbol = raw.strip().upper() + return symbol if SYMBOL_RE.match(symbol) else None +``` + +Design notes: + +- **One fetch method.** Both backends are pull-based, so `fetch()` covers + both. No `subscribe`/`unsubscribe` pair to keep in sync with the watchlist. +- **`tickers` is passed per call, not held as state.** The watchlist changes + at runtime; passing it each call means there is nothing to resubscribe. +- **Validation is separate from fetching** (`REVIEW.md` finding 2). Fetching + a symbol the provider cannot price is a non-event — it is simply absent + from the result. Deciding whether a symbol is real is a one-off question + asked when the user adds it, where an HTTP round trip is affordable and an + error message is useful. `normalize_symbol` handles the cheap half of that + question (typos like `aapl!`) without any provider call. +- **`aclose()` is a no-op by default.** The simulator holds nothing to + release and does not override it. + +--- + +## 7. Simulator + +**File: `backend/app/market/simulator.py`** + +The default source: plausible, correlated, always-positive price paths with +no network dependency and no API key. + +### 7.1 Why GBM + +The standard model for equity prices, right here for three reasons that all +show up on screen: prices stay positive (the step is multiplicative), returns +scale rather than prices (a $1 move looks the same on a $900 stock as it +should), and volatility is one interpretable dial. + +The discrete exact solution, which is what the code implements: + +``` +S(t+dt) = S(t) * exp( (mu - sigma^2/2) * dt + sigma * sqrt(dt) * Z ) +``` + +`mu` is annualised drift, `sigma` annualised volatility, `dt` elapsed time in +years, `Z` a standard normal draw. The `- sigma^2/2` Ito correction is not +optional: without it the median path drifts below `mu` and high-volatility +names creep upward even at zero drift. Dropping it is the most common way to +get this wrong, and §16.3's volatility test is what catches it. + +### 7.2 The accelerated clock + +A real 500ms move is invisible: at 30% annual volatility a half-second move +on a $190 stock is about half a cent. So one tick represents one **minute** +of market time: + +``` +TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR = 252 * 390 = 98_280 +dt = tick_minutes / TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR +``` + +At `tick_minutes=1.0`, `sigma=0.30`, the per-tick sigma is +`0.30 * sqrt(1/98_280) ≈ 0.096%` — about $0.18 on a $190 stock. Large enough +to flash, small enough to look like a price rather than a slot machine. + +| Wall clock | Simulated | +|---|---| +| 500ms | 1 minute | +| 3.25 min | one full session (390 minutes) | +| 1 hour | about 18 trading days | + +**Session rollover.** Every 390 ticks each ticker's `reference` is reset to +its current price. Without it, an app left running for an hour shows +"+38.2% today", which reads as broken. With it, the daily change stays in a +believable band no matter how long the demo runs. + +### 7.3 Correlation + +Independent draws look wrong — half the board green, half red, forever. A +two-factor decomposition gives correlation without matrix algebra: + +``` +Z_i = sqrt(w_m) * Z_market + + sqrt(w_s) * Z_sector(i) + + sqrt(1 - w_m - w_s) * Z_i +``` + +The weights sum to 1, so each `Z_i` keeps unit variance and `sigma` stays +exactly the volatility it claims to be. Same-sector pairs correlate at +`w_m + w_s`, cross-sector at `w_m`. Defaults `w_m=0.35`, `w_s=0.25` give +0.60 and 0.35 — inside the range US large caps actually exhibit, and +measured back at 0.597/0.354 in §7.8. One market draw, one draw per sector +present, one draw per ticker: no Cholesky decomposition, no covariance +matrix, no numpy. + +### 7.4 Events + +Each tick, each ticker independently jumps with probability +`event_probability`, multiplying the price by `1 ± u`, `u` uniform on +[0.02, 0.05]. At the default `0.0008` that is roughly one event per ticker +every 1250 ticks, so across ten tickers something dramatic happens about +once a minute of wall clock. Events are applied after the GBM step and +logged, so an unexplained spike on a chart is traceable in the server log. + +### 7.5 The ticker universe + +Deliberately round demo constants, not market data: + +| Ticker | Seed price | Sector | Volatility | Drift | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| AAPL | 190.00 | tech | 0.28 | 0.10 | +| GOOGL | 175.00 | tech | 0.32 | 0.10 | +| MSFT | 420.00 | tech | 0.26 | 0.10 | +| NVDA | 880.00 | tech | 0.50 | 0.20 | +| META | 500.00 | tech | 0.38 | 0.12 | +| AMZN | 185.00 | consumer | 0.34 | 0.12 | +| TSLA | 250.00 | consumer | 0.55 | 0.10 | +| NFLX | 620.00 | consumer | 0.40 | 0.12 | +| JPM | 200.00 | financial | 0.24 | 0.06 | +| V | 280.00 | financial | 0.22 | 0.08 | + +Five tech names against three consumer and two financial makes the sector +factor visible. TSLA and NVDA carry the highest volatility on purpose — a +watchlist where every row twitches identically looks synthetic. + +Any other symbol gets a spec derived from a SHA-256 hash: price in +[20, 400], volatility in [0.20, 0.60], a sector. Hashing rather than +randomising means `PYPL` starts at $117.09 on every restart, which keeps the +app coherent across container restarts and keeps E2E tests stable. Python's +built-in `hash()` will not do — it is salted per process. + +### 7.6 Code + +```python +"""Geometric Brownian motion price simulator.""" + +import hashlib +import logging +import math +import os +import random +from collections.abc import Sequence +from dataclasses import dataclass +from datetime import datetime, timezone + +from .provider import MarketDataProvider +from .types import Quote + +logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) + +TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR = 252 * 390 +SESSION_TICKS = 390 +SECTORS = ("tech", "consumer", "financial", "energy", "health") + + +@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True) +class TickerSpec: + """Static parameters governing one ticker's price path.""" + + ticker: str + seed_price: float + sector: str + volatility: float + drift: float + + +UNIVERSE = { + spec.ticker: spec + for spec in ( + TickerSpec("AAPL", 190.00, "tech", 0.28, 0.10), + TickerSpec("GOOGL", 175.00, "tech", 0.32, 0.10), + TickerSpec("MSFT", 420.00, "tech", 0.26, 0.10), + TickerSpec("NVDA", 880.00, "tech", 0.50, 0.20), + TickerSpec("META", 500.00, "tech", 0.38, 0.12), + TickerSpec("AMZN", 185.00, "consumer", 0.34, 0.12), + TickerSpec("TSLA", 250.00, "consumer", 0.55, 0.10), + TickerSpec("NFLX", 620.00, "consumer", 0.40, 0.12), + TickerSpec("JPM", 200.00, "financial", 0.24, 0.06), + TickerSpec("V", 280.00, "financial", 0.22, 0.08), + ) +} + + +def derive_spec(ticker: str) -> TickerSpec: + """Build a stable spec for a ticker outside the seeded universe.""" + digest = hashlib.sha256(ticker.encode()).digest() + price = 20.0 + int.from_bytes(digest[:4], "big") % 38_000 / 100 + volatility = 0.20 + digest[4] / 255 * 0.40 + return TickerSpec( + ticker=ticker, + seed_price=round(price, 2), + sector=SECTORS[digest[5] % len(SECTORS)], + volatility=round(volatility, 3), + drift=0.08, + ) + + +class SimulatorProvider(MarketDataProvider): + """Prices generated locally by correlated geometric Brownian motion. + + Each call to `fetch` advances the world by one tick, so the caller's poll + interval sets the simulation's pace. + """ + + name = "simulator" + + def __init__( + self, + seed: int | None = None, + poll_interval: float = 0.5, + tick_minutes: float = 1.0, + market_weight: float = 0.35, + sector_weight: float = 0.25, + event_probability: float = 0.0008, + mean_reversion: float = 0.0, + ): + if seed is None and (env_seed := os.getenv("SIMULATOR_SEED")): + seed = int(env_seed) + self.poll_interval = poll_interval + self._rng = random.Random(seed) + self._dt = tick_minutes / TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR + self._market_weight = market_weight + self._sector_weight = sector_weight + self._own_weight = 1.0 - market_weight - sector_weight + self._event_probability = event_probability + self._mean_reversion = mean_reversion + self._specs: dict[str, TickerSpec] = {} + self._prices: dict[str, float] = {} + self._closes: dict[str, float] = {} + self._tick = 0 + + async def fetch(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> dict[str, Quote]: + """Advance one tick and return a quote for every requested ticker.""" + if not tickers: + return {} + ordered = sorted(dict.fromkeys(tickers)) # order-independent determinism + for ticker in ordered: + self._register(ticker) + self._advance(ordered) + now = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + return { + ticker: Quote( + ticker=ticker, + price=round(self._prices[ticker], 2), + reference=round(self._closes[ticker], 2), + timestamp=now, + basis="prev_close", + ) + for ticker in ordered + } + + def _register(self, ticker: str) -> None: + """Add a ticker to the simulation at its seed price if new.""" + if ticker in self._specs: + return + spec = UNIVERSE.get(ticker) or derive_spec(ticker) + self._specs[ticker] = spec + self._prices[ticker] = spec.seed_price + self._closes[ticker] = spec.seed_price + + def _advance(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> None: + """Step every requested ticker forward by one correlated tick.""" + self._tick += 1 + if self._tick % SESSION_TICKS == 0: + self._closes.update(self._prices) + logger.info("simulator: session %d closed", self._tick // SESSION_TICKS) + + market_shock = self._rng.gauss(0.0, 1.0) + sector_shocks = { + sector: self._rng.gauss(0.0, 1.0) + for sector in sorted({self._specs[t].sector for t in tickers}) + } + for ticker in tickers: + spec = self._specs[ticker] + shock = ( + math.sqrt(self._market_weight) * market_shock + + math.sqrt(self._sector_weight) * sector_shocks[spec.sector] + + math.sqrt(self._own_weight) * self._rng.gauss(0.0, 1.0) + ) + self._prices[ticker] = self._step(spec, self._prices[ticker], shock) + + def _step(self, spec: TickerSpec, price: float, shock: float) -> float: + """One GBM step for a ticker, plus an occasional event jump.""" + drift = spec.drift + if self._mean_reversion: + drift += self._mean_reversion * math.log(spec.seed_price / price) + exponent = (drift - 0.5 * spec.volatility**2) * self._dt + exponent += spec.volatility * math.sqrt(self._dt) * shock + price *= math.exp(exponent) + + if self._rng.random() < self._event_probability: + move = self._rng.choice((1, -1)) * self._rng.uniform(0.02, 0.05) + price *= 1.0 + move + logger.info("simulator: event on %s, %+.1f%%", spec.ticker, move * 100) + + return max(price, 0.01) +``` + +The simulator inherits `validate_ticker` (always True) and `aclose` (no-op) +from the base class. It prices anything, by design — that is the useful +behaviour for a demo, and §14 shows how the watchlist route stays consistent +across providers anyway. + +### 7.7 Determinism + +Same seed, same tickers, same sequence. Four things make that true, each easy +to break: + +1. **One `random.Random` instance**, never module-level `random`, whose state + is shared with everything else in the process. +2. **`sorted()` around the sector set** in `_advance`. Iterating a set of + strings gives `PYTHONHASHSEED`-dependent order, which changes the order + RNG draws are consumed and quietly destroys reproducibility. +3. **`sorted(dict.fromkeys(...))` in `fetch`**, so caller ordering and + accidental duplicates cannot shift the draw sequence. +4. **`hashlib.sha256`, not `hash()`**, for derived specs. + +Determinism holds for a fixed ticker set. Adding a ticker mid-run changes the +number of draws per tick, so paths diverge from that point on — expected, and +the reason tests fix their ticker list. Set the seed with `SIMULATOR_SEED` or +the constructor argument; leave it unset in production so each container gets +a different market. + +### 7.8 Tuning and measured behaviour + +| Parameter | Default | Effect | +|---|---|---| +| `poll_interval` | 0.5 | Wall-clock seconds per tick | +| `tick_minutes` | 1.0 | Simulated minutes per tick — the main pace dial | +| `market_weight` | 0.35 | Cross-sector correlation | +| `sector_weight` | 0.25 | Additional within-sector correlation | +| `event_probability` | 0.0008 | Per-ticker, per-tick jump chance | +| `mean_reversion` | 0.0 | Pull toward the seed price. Off by default | +| `seed` | None | Fix for reproducible paths | + +Recipes: `tick_minutes=3.0` for a livelier demo (a session in ~65s); +`tick_minutes=0.25, event_probability=0.0` for calm realism; +`market_weight=0.8, sector_weight=0.15` to show a market-wide selloff in the +heatmap; `mean_reversion=10.0` for a long-running kiosk (an +Ornstein-Uhlenbeck pull in log space, half-life ~17 simulated sessions). +Leave `mean_reversion` at 0.0 otherwise — it is no longer GBM, and session +rollover already solves the change-percentage problem. + +Measured by running the code above: + +| Property | Target | Measured | +|---|---|---| +| Realised volatility, AAPL over 100k ticks | 0.28 | 0.2804 | +| Correlation AAPL/GOOGL (same sector) | 0.60 | 0.597 | +| Correlation AAPL/JPM (cross sector) | 0.35 | 0.354 | +| Mean absolute per-tick move, AAPL at ~$190 | — | $0.145 | +| Session change over 51 sessions | — | mean −0.11%, stdev 1.45% | +| Prices positive over 20k ticks at `tick_minutes=30` | all | all | +| Derived seed price for PYPL | stable | $117.09 across processes | + +A typical simulated session lands within a couple of percent of flat, which +is what a real watchlist looks like. + +--- + +## 8. Massive Client + +**File: `backend/app/market/massive.py`** + +### 8.1 What the plan tier dictates + +From `MASSIVE_API.md` §3, and this table drives every decision below: + +| Plan | Rate limit | Recency | Batch endpoint available | +|---|---|---|---| +| Stocks Basic (free) | 5 calls/min | End-of-day only | `/v2/aggs/grouped/...` only | +| Starter $29 / Developer $79 | Unlimited | 15-min delayed | `/v2/snapshot/...` | +| Advanced $199+ | Unlimited | Real-time | `/v2/snapshot/...` | + +Two consequences that are easy to miss: **snapshot endpoints 403 on the free +plan**, and **a free key returns end-of-day prices that do not move during +the day**. A free Massive key produces a trading terminal whose prices are +correct and motionless — which is exactly why `PLAN.md` makes the simulator +the default. (`MASSIVE_API.md` §4.3 also suggests free keys see grouped bars +about a day late; that is *inferred* from the recency tier, not verified — +`REVIEW.md` finding 8. Nothing in this design depends on it.) + +The provider therefore starts optimistic and downgrades on evidence: + +``` +fetch() -> snapshot mode -> 403 -> log once, widen poll_interval to 15s -> grouped mode +``` + +There is no `MASSIVE_PLAN` environment variable to get wrong. The key's tier +is discovered, once, from the API's own answer. + +### 8.2 Reading a price out of a snapshot row + +In preference order, per `MASSIVE_API.md` §4.1: `lastTrade.p` (the actual +last print, absent unless the plan includes trades), then `min.c` (close of +the most recent minute bar), then `day.c` (close of the running daily bar, +which is **0 before the first trade of the session**). If all three are +empty, fall back to `prevDay.c` so the UI never renders $0.00. `prevDay.c` +is the reference for the daily change. + +Timestamps differ by endpoint and this bites: aggregate `t` is +**milliseconds**, snapshot `updated` / `lastTrade.t` are **nanoseconds**. +The two converters at the bottom of the module are the whole fix. + +### 8.3 One HTTP call per fetch — the free-tier rule + +`REVIEW.md` finding 1: naively walking back five calendar days to find the +last trading session costs up to 4-5 calls in a single fetch, and the free +tier allows 5 per minute. The fix is to spread the search across polls +instead of packing it into one: + +- Each fetch asks about exactly **one** date — never a loop. +- An empty result steps the candidate back one day; the *next* poll asks + about that one. A cold start on a Monday therefore resolves Friday's bar on + the fourth poll (~45s at a 15s interval) having spent one call each. +- Once resolved, the grouped payload is cached and re-served with **zero** + HTTP calls until `SESSION_REFRESH_SECONDS` (15 min) elapses or a ticker + outside the cached set is requested. End-of-day data does not change + within a session, so re-fetching it is pure waste. +- After 5 fruitless days the search resets and logs a warning, keeping the + last known prices rather than blanking the board. + +Measured call counts across six consecutive fetches on a free key, starting +from a Monday with Friday as the last published session: + +``` +fetch 1: 2 calls (snapshot 403 + Monday grouped, empty) -> {} +fetch 2: 1 call (Sunday, empty) -> {} +fetch 3: 1 call (Saturday, empty) -> {} +fetch 4: 1 call (Friday, 3 rows) -> {AAPL, MSFT} +fetch 5: 0 calls (served from the cached session bar) -> {AAPL, MSFT} +fetch 6: 0 calls -> {AAPL, MSFT} +``` + +Peak is 2 calls, on the one fetch that discovers the downgrade; steady state +is 0-1. At a 15s poll that is at most 4 calls/min against a 5/min budget. + +### 8.4 Code + +```python +"""Massive (formerly Polygon.io) REST implementation of MarketDataProvider.""" + +import asyncio +import logging +import time +from collections.abc import Sequence +from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta, timezone + +import httpx + +from .provider import MarketDataProvider +from .types import Quote + +logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) + +BASE_URL = "https://api.massive.com" +SNAPSHOT_PATH = "/v2/snapshot/locale/us/markets/stocks/tickers" +GROUPED_PATH = "/v2/aggs/grouped/locale/us/market/stocks/{day}" +PREV_PATH = "/v2/aggs/ticker/{ticker}/prev" + +FREE_TIER_POLL_SECONDS = 15.0 # 4 calls/min against a 5/min budget +SESSION_REFRESH_SECONDS = 900.0 # how often to look for a newer session bar +MAX_LOOKBACK_DAYS = 5 +RETRY_STATUS = frozenset({413, 429, 499, 500, 502, 503, 504}) + + +class MassiveProvider(MarketDataProvider): + """Fetches prices from Massive, degrading to free-tier endpoints as needed.""" + + name = "massive" + + def __init__( + self, + api_key: str, + poll_interval: float = 5.0, + client: httpx.AsyncClient | None = None, + ): + self.poll_interval = poll_interval + self._mode = "snapshot" + self._client = client or httpx.AsyncClient( + base_url=BASE_URL, + headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}"}, + timeout=httpx.Timeout(10.0, connect=5.0), + ) + self._session_date: date | None = None + self._candidate: date | None = None + self._searched = 0 + self._resolved_at = 0.0 + self._grouped: dict[str, Quote] = {} + + # ---------------------------------------------------------------- fetch + + async def fetch(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> dict[str, Quote]: + if not tickers: + return {} + if self._mode == "snapshot": + try: + return await self._fetch_snapshot(tickers) + except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc: + if exc.response.status_code != 403: + raise + self._downgrade() + return await self._fetch_grouped(tickers) + + def _downgrade(self) -> None: + """Switch to free-tier endpoints after a 403 on the snapshot endpoint.""" + self._mode = "grouped" + self.poll_interval = max(self.poll_interval, FREE_TIER_POLL_SECONDS) + logger.warning( + "massive: snapshot endpoint not available on this plan, " + "falling back to end-of-day grouped bars at %.0fs", + self.poll_interval, + ) + + async def _fetch_snapshot(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> dict[str, Quote]: + """Current prices via /v2/snapshot. Starter plan and above.""" + response = await self._get(SNAPSHOT_PATH, {"tickers": ",".join(tickers)}) + quotes: dict[str, Quote] = {} + for row in response.json().get("tickers", []): + prev_close = _as_float(row.get("prevDay", {}).get("c")) + price = _snapshot_price(row) or prev_close + if not price: + continue + quotes[row["ticker"]] = Quote( + ticker=row["ticker"], + price=price, + reference=prev_close or price, + timestamp=_from_nanos(row.get("updated")), + basis="prev_close", + ) + return quotes + + async def _fetch_grouped(self, tickers: Sequence[str]) -> dict[str, Quote]: + """End-of-day closes. At most one HTTP call per fetch, often zero.""" + wanted = set(tickers) + if self._grouped_is_usable(wanted): + return {t: self._grouped[t] for t in wanted if t in self._grouped} + + day = self._candidate_day() + rows = await self._grouped_bars(day) + if not rows: + self._step_back(day) + return {t: self._grouped[t] for t in wanted if t in self._grouped} + + self._session_date = day + self._candidate = None + self._searched = 0 + self._resolved_at = time.monotonic() + self._grouped = { + row["T"]: Quote( + ticker=row["T"], + price=float(row["c"]), + reference=float(row["o"]), + timestamp=_from_millis(row.get("t")), + basis="session_open", + ) + for row in rows + if row["T"] in wanted + } + logger.info( + "massive: grouped session %s resolved, %d of %d tickers priced", + day.isoformat(), + len(self._grouped), + len(wanted), + ) + return dict(self._grouped) + + def _grouped_is_usable(self, wanted: set[str]) -> bool: + """True when the cached session bar already answers this request.""" + if self._session_date is None or self._candidate is not None: + return False + if time.monotonic() - self._resolved_at > SESSION_REFRESH_SECONDS: + return False + return wanted <= self._grouped.keys() + + def _candidate_day(self) -> date: + """The single date this fetch will ask about.""" + if self._candidate is not None: + return self._candidate + self._candidate = datetime.now(timezone.utc).date() + return self._candidate + + def _step_back(self, day: date) -> None: + """Walk one calendar day back — one poll, one day, one call.""" + self._searched += 1 + if self._searched >= MAX_LOOKBACK_DAYS: + logger.warning( + "massive: no grouped bar in the %d days ending %s; " + "keeping last known prices", + MAX_LOOKBACK_DAYS, + day.isoformat(), + ) + self._candidate = None + self._searched = 0 + self._resolved_at = time.monotonic() + return + self._candidate = day - timedelta(days=1) + + async def _grouped_bars(self, day: date) -> list[dict]: + """Grouped daily bars for one date. Empty list on a non-trading day.""" + response = await self._get( + GROUPED_PATH.format(day=day.isoformat()), {"adjusted": "true"} + ) + return response.json().get("results") or [] + + # ----------------------------------------------------------- validation + + async def validate_ticker(self, ticker: str) -> bool: + """Check a symbol exists before it joins the watchlist. Free on all plans.""" + try: + response = await self._get(PREV_PATH.format(ticker=ticker), {}) + except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc: + if exc.response.status_code in (403, 404): + return False + raise + return bool(response.json().get("resultsCount")) + + # ------------------------------------------------------------- plumbing + + async def _get(self, path: str, params: dict, attempts: int = 4) -> httpx.Response: + """GET with exponential backoff on transient statuses. Never retries 401/403.""" + for attempt in range(attempts): + response = await self._client.get(path, params=params) + if response.status_code not in RETRY_STATUS: + response.raise_for_status() + return response + if attempt < attempts - 1: + await asyncio.sleep(0.2 * 2**attempt) + response.raise_for_status() + return response + + async def aclose(self) -> None: + await self._client.aclose() + + +def _snapshot_price(row: dict) -> float: + """Best available current price from a v2 snapshot row, most reliable first.""" + for value in ( + row.get("lastTrade", {}).get("p"), + row.get("min", {}).get("c"), + row.get("day", {}).get("c"), + ): + if value: + return float(value) + return 0.0 + + +def _as_float(value) -> float: + return float(value) if value else 0.0 + + +def _from_nanos(value) -> datetime: + """Snapshot timestamps are nanoseconds since epoch.""" + if not value: + return datetime.now(timezone.utc) + return datetime.fromtimestamp(value / 1e9, timezone.utc) + + +def _from_millis(value) -> datetime: + """Aggregate bar timestamps are milliseconds since epoch.""" + if not value: + return datetime.now(timezone.utc) + return datetime.fromtimestamp(value / 1e3, timezone.utc) +``` + +Points worth calling out: + +- **One HTTP call per fetch in both modes.** Snapshot takes a `tickers=` + filter; grouped returns the whole market and is filtered client-side. + Watchlist size never changes the call count. +- **`httpx`, not the official `massive` client.** The official client is + synchronous urllib3 and would block the event loop; this provider needs + exactly three endpoints. `uv add httpx`, and `uv remove massive numpy` — + neither is needed any more. +- **The `client` constructor argument exists for tests.** Passing an + `httpx.AsyncClient` built on `httpx.MockTransport` gives full-fidelity + request/response testing with no network and no extra dependency (§16.4). +- **Grouped mode reports `basis="session_open"`.** Both values come from the + same bar, so the change is that session's move, and the frontend labels the + column accordingly instead of lying about "vs prev close" + (`REVIEW.md` finding 4). + +### 8.5 Checking a key by hand + +```bash +# Snapshot: 200 on Starter+, 403 on the free plan +curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' \ + -H "Authorization: Bearer $MASSIVE_API_KEY" \ + "https://api.massive.com/v2/snapshot/locale/us/markets/stocks/tickers?tickers=AAPL,MSFT" + +# Grouped daily bars: works on every plan +curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $MASSIVE_API_KEY" \ + "https://api.massive.com/v2/aggs/grouped/locale/us/market/stocks/2026-08-26?adjusted=true" + +# Is the market open right now? +curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $MASSIVE_API_KEY" \ + "https://api.massive.com/v1/marketstatus/now" +``` + +A 401 (`{"status":"ERROR","error":"Unknown API Key"}`) means the key is bad — +fail fast at startup rather than retrying; the answer will not change. + +--- + +## 9. Price Cache + +**File: `backend/app/market/cache.py`** + +```python +"""In-memory store of the latest tick per ticker.""" + +from collections.abc import Iterable + +from .types import Direction, PriceTick, Quote + + +class PriceCache: + """Latest known price per ticker, plus tick-over-tick direction. + + Single-writer (the engine), many-reader (SSE, routes). `version` is a + monotonic counter that increments only when something actually changed, + so an SSE client can cheaply tell whether it has anything new to send. + """ + + def __init__(self) -> None: + self._ticks: dict[str, PriceTick] = {} + self._version = 0 + + @property + def version(self) -> int: + return self._version + + def update(self, quotes: Iterable[Quote]) -> list[PriceTick]: + """Apply quotes and return only the ticks whose price actually moved.""" + changed: list[PriceTick] = [] + for quote in quotes: + existing = self._ticks.get(quote.ticker) + if ( + existing is not None + and existing.price == quote.price + and existing.reference == quote.reference + ): + continue # a repeated end-of-day price is not news + previous_price = existing.price if existing else quote.price + tick = PriceTick( + ticker=quote.ticker, + price=quote.price, + previous_price=previous_price, + reference=quote.reference, + timestamp=quote.timestamp, + basis=quote.basis, + direction=_direction(previous_price, quote.price), + ) + self._ticks[quote.ticker] = tick + changed.append(tick) + if changed: + self._version += 1 + return changed + + def get(self, ticker: str) -> PriceTick | None: + """Latest tick for one ticker, or None if never seen.""" + return self._ticks.get(ticker) + + def get_price(self, ticker: str) -> float | None: + """Convenience for trade execution and portfolio valuation.""" + tick = self._ticks.get(ticker) + return tick.price if tick else None + + def snapshot(self) -> dict[str, PriceTick]: + """A copy of every known tick, safe to iterate.""" + return dict(self._ticks) + + def prune(self, keep: Iterable[str]) -> int: + """Drop tickers nobody is watching or holding. Returns how many went.""" + keeping = set(keep) + dropped = [t for t in self._ticks if t not in keeping] + for ticker in dropped: + del self._ticks[ticker] + if dropped: + self._version += 1 + return len(dropped) + + def __len__(self) -> int: + return len(self._ticks) + + def __contains__(self, ticker: str) -> bool: + return ticker in self._ticks + + +def _direction(previous: float, current: float) -> Direction: + if current > previous: + return "up" + if current < previous: + return "down" + return "flat" +``` + +### 9.1 Notes + +- **The first observation sets `previous_price == price`**, so `direction` is + `"flat"` and the UI does not flash a fake move on page load. +- **No lock.** Everything runs in one asyncio event loop, the engine is the + only writer, and neither `dict` assignment nor `dict(...)` yields control. + A lock here would protect against nothing. (If a future provider ever needs + a worker thread, it should hand quotes back to the loop rather than write + the cache from the thread.) +- **`prune` is wired**, not decorative — the engine calls it every poll + (`REVIEW.md` finding 5). Its input is the union of watchlist and position + tickers (§14), never the watchlist alone, or selling a position after + removing it from the watchlist would find no price. +- **Version bumps only on real change**, which keeps a motionless free-tier + feed from re-broadcasting the same payload every 15 seconds. + +Verified behaviour: + +``` +first quote -> direction "flat", version 1 +higher quote -> direction "up", previous_price 190.0, version 2 +same quote -> update() returns [], version stays 2 +``` + +--- + +## 10. Price Engine + +**File: `backend/app/market/engine.py`** + +```python +"""Background task that keeps the price cache current.""" + +import asyncio +import logging +from collections.abc import Callable, Sequence + +from .cache import PriceCache +from .provider import MarketDataProvider + +logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) + + +class PriceEngine: + """Polls a provider on its advised interval and writes into the cache.""" + + def __init__( + self, + provider: MarketDataProvider, + cache: PriceCache, + tickers: Callable[[], Sequence[str]], + ): + self._provider = provider + self._cache = cache + self._tickers = tickers + self._task: asyncio.Task | None = None + + def start(self) -> None: + """Begin polling. Idempotent.""" + if self._task is None: + self._task = asyncio.create_task(self._run(), name="price-engine") + + async def stop(self) -> None: + """Cancel the poll loop and release the provider.""" + if self._task is not None: + self._task.cancel() + await asyncio.gather(self._task, return_exceptions=True) + self._task = None + await self._provider.aclose() + + async def poll_once(self) -> None: + """One fetch-and-store cycle. Used by the loop and directly by tests.""" + tickers = sorted({t.upper() for t in self._tickers()}) + if not tickers: + return + quotes = await self._provider.fetch(tickers) + self._cache.update(quotes.values()) + self._cache.prune(tickers) + + async def _run(self) -> None: + loop = asyncio.get_running_loop() + deadline = loop.time() + while True: + try: + await self.poll_once() + except asyncio.CancelledError: + raise + except Exception: + logger.exception("price engine poll failed, keeping last prices") + # Anchor the next wake-up to the schedule, not to when this poll + # finished, so a slow fetch does not stretch the cadence. + deadline = max(deadline + self._provider.poll_interval, loop.time()) + await asyncio.sleep(deadline - loop.time()) +``` + +- **The `tickers` callable** is what makes watchlist changes take effect + without a restart. In the app it reads SQLite (§14); in tests it is a + lambda over a list. +- **The broad `except Exception`** is one of the few places defensive code + earns its place. A transient upstream failure must not kill the only task + feeding every connected SSE client: the cache keeps its last values, prices + go stale rather than blank, and the next poll recovers on its own. +- **`provider.poll_interval` is read every iteration**, so the Massive + downgrade from 5s to 15s takes effect immediately. +- **Deadline-based sleep** (`REVIEW.md` finding 6). Measured: six polls at + `poll_interval=0.1` with a 0.05s fetch take **0.62s**, not the 0.9s that + `sleep(interval)` after the fetch would give. + +--- + +## 11. Provider Selection + +**File: `backend/app/market/factory.py`** + +```python +"""Provider selection driven by environment variables.""" + +import logging +import os + +from .massive import MassiveProvider +from .provider import MarketDataProvider +from .simulator import SimulatorProvider + +logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) + + +def create_provider() -> MarketDataProvider: + """Return the Massive provider if an API key is configured, else the simulator.""" + api_key = os.getenv("MASSIVE_API_KEY", "").strip() + override = os.getenv("MARKET_POLL_SECONDS", "").strip() + + provider: MarketDataProvider + if api_key: + provider = MassiveProvider(api_key=api_key) + else: + provider = SimulatorProvider() + + if override: + provider.poll_interval = float(override) + + logger.info( + "market: provider=%s poll_interval=%.2fs", + provider.name, + provider.poll_interval, + ) + return provider +``` + +`.strip()` matters: `MASSIVE_API_KEY=` in a `.env` file yields an empty +string, not an unset variable, and `PLAN.md` §5 specifies that +absent-or-empty selects the simulator. + +Log the choice once at startup — "which data source am I looking at" is the +first question anyone asks when prices look wrong: + +``` +market: provider=simulator poll_interval=0.50s +market: provider=massive poll_interval=5.00s +massive: snapshot endpoint not available on this plan, falling back to end-of-day grouped bars at 15s +``` + +--- + +## 12. SSE Streaming + +**File: `backend/app/market/stream.py`** + +```python +"""SSE endpoint that pushes cached prices to the browser.""" + +import asyncio +import json +import logging +from collections.abc import AsyncIterator + +from fastapi import APIRouter, Request +from fastapi.responses import StreamingResponse + +from .cache import PriceCache + +logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) + +PUSH_INTERVAL = 0.5 +HEARTBEAT_SECONDS = 15.0 + + +def create_stream_router(cache: PriceCache) -> APIRouter: + """Build the /api/stream router bound to a price cache.""" + router = APIRouter(prefix="/api/stream", tags=["stream"]) + + @router.get("/prices") + async def stream_prices(request: Request) -> StreamingResponse: + """Live price feed. Consume with the browser's native EventSource.""" + return StreamingResponse( + _events(cache, request), + media_type="text/event-stream", + headers={ + "Cache-Control": "no-cache", + "Connection": "keep-alive", + "X-Accel-Buffering": "no", # defeat proxy buffering + }, + ) + + return router + + +async def _events(cache: PriceCache, request: Request) -> AsyncIterator[str]: + """Yield an SSE frame whenever the cache changes, plus periodic heartbeats.""" + yield "retry: 1000\n\n" + last_version = -1 + last_send = 0.0 + loop = asyncio.get_running_loop() + try: + while not await request.is_disconnected(): + now = loop.time() + if cache.version != last_version: + last_version = cache.version + last_send = now + yield _frame(cache) + elif now - last_send >= HEARTBEAT_SECONDS: + last_send = now + yield ": heartbeat\n\n" + await asyncio.sleep(PUSH_INTERVAL) + except asyncio.CancelledError: + raise + finally: + logger.info("sse: client disconnected") + + +def _frame(cache: PriceCache) -> str: + """One `prices` event carrying every known tick.""" + payload = { + "version": cache.version, + "prices": [tick.to_dict() for tick in cache.snapshot().values()], + } + return f"event: prices\ndata: {json.dumps(payload)}\n\n" +``` + +### 12.1 Wire format + +The first frame is a retry directive; then one `prices` event per change, +carrying every known ticker (ten tickers is ~1.2KB — batching beats +per-ticker events, which would multiply framing overhead for no benefit): + +``` +retry: 1000 + +event: prices +data: {"version": 6, "prices": [ + {"ticker": "AAPL", "price": 190.08, "previous_price": 189.94, "reference": 190.0, + "basis": "prev_close", "direction": "up", "change": 0.08, "change_percent": 0.04, + "timestamp": "2026-08-27T08:59:40.464100+00:00"}, + {"ticker": "MSFT", "price": 419.9, "previous_price": 420.03, "reference": 420.0, + "basis": "prev_close", "direction": "down", "change": -0.1, "change_percent": -0.02, + "timestamp": "2026-08-27T08:59:40.464100+00:00"}]} + +: heartbeat +``` + +(Captured from `curl -N http://localhost:8000/api/stream/prices`, reformatted +for reading — real frames are single-line.) + +Design points: + +- **Push on change, poll to detect it.** The generator wakes every 500ms and + compares `cache.version`. Cheap, no pub/sub machinery, and a motionless + free-tier feed sends nothing but heartbeats. +- **Heartbeat comment lines** (`: heartbeat`) every 15s keep proxies and load + balancers from reaping an idle connection. `EventSource` ignores them. +- **`retry: 1000`** tells the browser to reconnect after a second; + `EventSource` handles reconnection itself, which is the whole reason + `PLAN.md` chose SSE over WebSockets. +- **Disconnect detection** via `request.is_disconnected()`, so a closed tab + ends the generator instead of leaking a task per page load. + +### 12.2 Frontend consumption + +```ts +const source = new EventSource("/api/stream/prices"); + +source.addEventListener("prices", (event) => { + const { prices } = JSON.parse(event.data); + for (const tick of prices) { + applyTick(tick); // update the row, flash on tick.direction + pushSparkline(tick.ticker, tick.price); + } +}); + +source.onerror = () => setConnectionStatus("reconnecting"); // EventSource retries +source.onopen = () => setConnectionStatus("connected"); +``` + +`direction` drives the flash class; `change_percent` plus `basis` drive the +daily-change column ("vs prev close" or "since open"); accumulating `price` +per ticker builds the sparklines `PLAN.md` §2 describes. + +--- + +## 13. Application Wiring + +**File: `backend/app/main.py`** (market data portions only) + +```python +"""FastAPI application factory.""" + +from contextlib import asynccontextmanager + +from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException, Request + +from app.market import PriceCache, PriceEngine, create_provider, create_stream_router +from app.db import watched_tickers # SQLite: watchlist ∪ position tickers + + +def create_app() -> FastAPI: + cache = PriceCache() + provider = create_provider() + engine = PriceEngine(provider, cache, tickers=watched_tickers) + + @asynccontextmanager + async def lifespan(app: FastAPI): + app.state.prices = cache + app.state.provider = provider + engine.start() + try: + yield + finally: + await engine.stop() + + app = FastAPI(title="FinAlly", lifespan=lifespan) + app.include_router(create_stream_router(cache)) + return app + + +app = create_app() +``` + +Build the cache and router **before** `FastAPI(...)` rather than inside +`lifespan`. Including a router from a startup hook is a trap: when a +`lifespan` is supplied, FastAPI ignores `@app.on_event("startup")` entirely, +and the route silently 404s. (Confirmed the hard way; the wiring above was +run under uvicorn and curled.) + +Reading a price anywhere else in the backend: + +```python +def current_price(request: Request, ticker: str) -> float: + """The price a trade fills at, or a 422 if the ticker has no price yet.""" + tick = request.app.state.prices.get(ticker.upper()) + if tick is None: + raise HTTPException(422, f"No price available for {ticker.upper()}") + return tick.price +``` + +Every consumer — trade execution, `/api/portfolio` valuation, the 30-second +portfolio snapshot task, the LLM's context builder — goes through the cache. +That is what guarantees a trade fills at exactly the price on screen. + +--- + +## 14. Watchlist Coordination + +### 14.1 What the engine polls + +```python +def watched_tickers() -> list[str]: + """Every ticker the app needs a price for: watchlist plus open positions.""" + with connect() as db: + rows = db.execute( + "SELECT ticker FROM watchlist WHERE user_id = ?" + " UNION " + "SELECT ticker FROM positions WHERE user_id = ? AND quantity > 0", + ("default", "default"), + ).fetchall() + return [row[0] for row in rows] +``` + +The union is essential. A user can remove a ticker from the watchlist while +still holding it; without the positions half, the price stops updating and +the portfolio silently values that holding at a stale price — or, after +`prune`, at none at all. + +### 14.2 Adding a ticker + +```python +@router.post("/api/watchlist") +async def add_ticker(body: TickerIn, request: Request): + """Validate, then persist. The engine picks it up on its next poll.""" + symbol = normalize_symbol(body.ticker) + if symbol is None: + raise HTTPException(422, f"{body.ticker!r} is not a valid symbol") + if not await request.app.state.provider.validate_ticker(symbol): + raise HTTPException(404, f"{symbol} is not a known ticker") + insert_watchlist(symbol) # INSERT OR IGNORE — the UNIQUE constraint + return {"ticker": symbol} +``` + +This is the resolution of `REVIEW.md` finding 2. Existence is checked once, +here, where an HTTP round trip and a real error message are both affordable — +not inside the poll loop, and not by pattern-matching on an absent key in a +`fetch()` result. Under the simulator every syntactically valid symbol is +accepted and priced from its hashed spec; under Massive an unknown symbol is +rejected with a 404 the user can act on. Both are coherent; neither depends +on the poll loop's behaviour. + +The new ticker appears in the cache within one poll interval (0.5s simulated, +up to 15s on a free key). Until then, the row renders as "—" rather than +$0.00, and the trade route returns 422 rather than filling at a made-up +price. + +### 14.3 Removing a ticker + +```python +@router.delete("/api/watchlist/{ticker}") +async def remove_ticker(ticker: str): + """Remove from the watchlist. Prices keep flowing if a position remains.""" + delete_watchlist(ticker.upper()) + return {"ticker": ticker.upper(), "removed": True} +``` + +No cache manipulation here. The engine's next `prune(tickers)` drops the +ticker if — and only if — nothing else needs it, which is exactly the +condition `watched_tickers()` already expresses. + +--- + +## 15. Error Handling and Edge Cases + +| Situation | Behaviour | Where | +|---|---|---| +| Empty watchlist at startup | `poll_once` returns early; no provider call | `engine.poll_once` | +| Ticker requested before its first tick | `get()` returns None → route raises 422 | `main.current_price` | +| Provider raises mid-poll | Logged with traceback; cache keeps last values; next poll retries | `engine._run` | +| Massive 403 on snapshot | One warning, mode → grouped, `poll_interval` → 15s, never retried | `massive._downgrade` | +| Massive 401 (bad key) | `raise_for_status` propagates; logged each poll — check the key | `massive._get` | +| Massive 429 / 5xx | Up to 4 attempts with 0.2/0.4/0.8s backoff | `massive._get` | +| Non-trading date (200, `results: []`) | Not an error: candidate steps back one day, one call per poll | `massive._step_back` | +| No session bar in 5 days | Warning; search resets; last known prices retained | `massive._step_back` | +| `day.c == 0` pre-market | Falls through `lastTrade.p` → `min.c` → `day.c` → `prevDay.c` | `massive._snapshot_price` | +| Ticker missing from snapshot response | Omitted from the result; its cached tick simply stops updating | `massive._fetch_snapshot` | +| Free-tier price never changes | Cache suppresses no-op updates; SSE sends heartbeats only | `cache.update` | +| Simulator asked for an unknown symbol | Priced from a SHA-256-derived spec, stable across restarts | `simulator.derive_spec` | +| Simulated price approaching zero | Floored at $0.01; GBM cannot reach it anyway | `simulator._step` | +| SSE client disappears | `is_disconnected()` ends the generator; no leaked tasks | `stream._events` | +| Shutdown | Engine task cancelled, `aclose()` closes the HTTP client | `engine.stop` | + +Rounding: prices are rounded to 2dp at the provider boundary (simulator) or +taken as given (Massive), so the cache, the trade fill, and the number on +screen are the same float. Portfolio math never re-rounds a price it did not +fill at. + +--- + +## 16. Testing Strategy + +### 16.1 Dependencies + +`REVIEW.md` finding 7. Everything below runs on `pytest` + `pytest-asyncio` +with `asyncio_mode = "auto"` (already set in `backend/pyproject.toml`), plus +`httpx`, which the Massive provider needs anyway. HTTP mocking uses +`httpx.MockTransport` from httpx itself — no `pytest-httpx`, no +`responses`, no network. `statistics.correlation` needs Python 3.10+; +the project is on 3.12. + +``` +backend/tests/market/ +├── test_types.py # change/change_percent, to_dict wire shape +├── test_contract.py # parametrized over every provider +├── test_simulator.py # GBM statistics, determinism, rollover +├── test_massive.py # MockTransport: parsing, downgrade, call counts, retries +├── test_cache.py # direction, no-op suppression, prune, version +├── test_engine.py # poll_once, prune wiring, cadence, error resilience +└── test_stream.py # SSE frame format +``` + +### 16.2 Contract suite + +Parametrize one suite over every implementation so a new provider inherits +the whole thing: + +```python +import httpx +import pytest + +from app.market import MassiveProvider, SimulatorProvider + +TICKERS = ["AAPL", "GOOGL", "MSFT"] + + +def _snapshot_transport() -> httpx.MockTransport: + def handler(request: httpx.Request) -> httpx.Response: + return httpx.Response(200, json={"status": "OK", "tickers": [ + {"ticker": t, "day": {"c": 100.0}, "prevDay": {"c": 99.0}} + for t in TICKERS + ]}) + return httpx.MockTransport(handler) + + +@pytest.fixture(params=["simulator", "massive"]) +def provider(request): + if request.param == "simulator": + return SimulatorProvider(seed=42) + client = httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://api.massive.com", + transport=_snapshot_transport()) + return MassiveProvider(api_key="test-key", client=client) + + +async def test_keys_are_a_subset_of_the_request(provider): + quotes = await provider.fetch(TICKERS) + assert set(quotes) <= set(TICKERS) + assert all(quotes[t].ticker == t for t in quotes) + + +async def test_prices_and_references_are_positive(provider): + quotes = await provider.fetch(TICKERS) + assert all(q.price > 0 and q.reference > 0 for q in quotes.values()) + + +async def test_empty_request_does_no_io(provider): + assert await provider.fetch([]) == {} + + +async def test_quotes_are_timezone_aware(provider): + quotes = await provider.fetch(TICKERS) + assert all(q.timestamp.tzinfo is not None for q in quotes.values()) + + +async def test_aclose_is_idempotent(provider): + await provider.aclose() + await provider.aclose() +``` + +Note what is *not* asserted: that an unknown ticker is omitted. The simulator +prices everything by design, so that belongs in provider-specific tests, with +`validate_ticker` carrying the shared meaning instead. + +For route and E2E tests, a third implementation keeps portfolio values exact: + +```python +class FixedProvider(MarketDataProvider): + """Returns preset prices. For tests that need a known portfolio value.""" + + name = "fixed" + poll_interval = 0.05 + + def __init__(self, prices: dict[str, float]): + self._prices = prices + + async def fetch(self, tickers): + now = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + return { + t: Quote(t, self._prices[t], self._prices[t], now) + for t in tickers + if t in self._prices + } +``` + +### 16.3 Simulator tests + +Statistical properties, not exact values. The 100k-tick volatility test runs +in 0.63s; keep it — it is what catches a dropped `- sigma^2/2` term or a `dt` +that is off by a trading-calendar factor. Every test in this section was run +as written: 23 tests, 3.8 seconds, all passing. + +```python +import math +import statistics + +import pytest + +from app.market.simulator import TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR, SimulatorProvider + +TICKERS = ["AAPL", "GOOGL", "JPM"] + + +async def _paths(provider, tickers, steps): + series = {t: [] for t in tickers} + for _ in range(steps): + for ticker, quote in (await provider.fetch(tickers)).items(): + series[ticker].append(quote.price) + return series + + +async def test_recovers_configured_volatility(): + provider = SimulatorProvider(seed=1, event_probability=0.0) + prices = (await _paths(provider, ["AAPL"], 100_000))["AAPL"] + returns = [math.log(b / a) for a, b in zip(prices, prices[1:])] + realized = statistics.stdev(returns) / math.sqrt(1 / TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR) + assert realized == pytest.approx(0.28, rel=0.05) # measured 0.2804 + + +async def test_same_sector_pair_is_more_correlated(): + provider = SimulatorProvider(seed=2, event_probability=0.0) + series = await _paths(provider, TICKERS, 50_000) + rets = {t: [math.log(b / a) for a, b in zip(p, p[1:])] for t, p in series.items()} + assert statistics.correlation(rets["AAPL"], rets["GOOGL"]) == pytest.approx(0.60, abs=0.05) + assert statistics.correlation(rets["AAPL"], rets["JPM"]) == pytest.approx(0.35, abs=0.05) + + +async def test_prices_stay_positive_under_an_aggressive_clock(): + series = await _paths(SimulatorProvider(seed=3, tick_minutes=30.0), TICKERS, 20_000) + assert all(price > 0 for prices in series.values() for price in prices) + + +async def test_paths_are_deterministic_and_order_independent(): + a = await _paths(SimulatorProvider(seed=7), ["AAPL", "JPM"], 200) + b = await _paths(SimulatorProvider(seed=7), ["JPM", "AAPL"], 200) + c = await _paths(SimulatorProvider(seed=8), ["AAPL", "JPM"], 200) + assert a == b + assert a != c + + +async def test_unknown_ticker_gets_a_stable_seed_price(): + first = await SimulatorProvider(seed=1).fetch(["PYPL"]) + second = await SimulatorProvider(seed=99).fetch(["PYPL"]) + assert first["PYPL"].reference == second["PYPL"].reference == 117.09 + + +async def test_session_rollover_resets_the_reference(): + """After 390 ticks the reference tracks the price, not the seed price.""" + provider = SimulatorProvider(seed=4, event_probability=0.0) + for _ in range(390): + quotes = await provider.fetch(["AAPL"]) + quote = quotes["AAPL"] + assert quote.reference != 190.00 # moved off the seed + assert quote.reference == pytest.approx(quote.price, abs=1.0) # and tracks the price +``` + +That last test is `REVIEW.md` finding 3. The old `abs=0.01` tolerance passed +for one lucky seed and failed for 54 of 60 others, because `_advance` sets +the close from the price *before* stepping — so after the rollover tick the +price is already one step away. The assertion above states the property that +actually matters and holds across seeds. + +### 16.4 Massive tests + +```python +from datetime import date + +import httpx +import pytest + +from app.market import MassiveProvider + + +def _provider(handler) -> MassiveProvider: + client = httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://api.massive.com", + transport=httpx.MockTransport(handler)) + return MassiveProvider(api_key="test-key", client=client) + + +async def test_snapshot_prefers_last_trade_and_falls_back_to_prev_close(): + def handler(request): + return httpx.Response(200, json={"tickers": [ + {"ticker": "AAPL", "updated": 1605192894630916600, "lastTrade": {"p": 190.55}, + "min": {"c": 190.4}, "day": {"c": 190.5}, "prevDay": {"c": 188.0}}, + {"ticker": "GOOGL", "day": {"c": 0}, "min": {"c": 0}, "prevDay": {"c": 175.0}}, + ]}) + quotes = await _provider(handler).fetch(["AAPL", "GOOGL", "NOPE"]) + assert quotes["AAPL"].price == 190.55 # lastTrade wins + assert quotes["AAPL"].change_percent == pytest.approx(1.36, abs=0.01) + assert quotes["GOOGL"].price == 175.0 # zero day.c -> prevDay.c + assert "NOPE" not in quotes # absent, not raised + + +async def test_free_key_downgrades_once_and_spends_one_call_per_fetch(): + calls: list[str] = [] + published = date(2026, 8, 21) # a Friday + + def handler(request): + calls.append(request.url.path) + if "snapshot" in request.url.path: + return httpx.Response(403, json={"error": "NOT_AUTHORIZED"}) + day = request.url.path.rsplit("/", 1)[-1] + if day == published.isoformat(): + return httpx.Response(200, json={"results": [ + {"T": "AAPL", "o": 188.0, "c": 190.1, "t": 1755792000000}, + {"T": "MSFT", "o": 420.0, "c": 418.2, "t": 1755792000000}, + ]}) + return httpx.Response(200, json={"resultsCount": 0, "results": []}) + + provider = _provider(handler) + provider._candidate = date(2026, 8, 24) # pretend today is the Monday + per_fetch = [] + for _ in range(6): + before = len(calls) + quotes = await provider.fetch(["AAPL", "MSFT"]) + per_fetch.append((len(calls) - before, sorted(quotes))) + + assert provider.poll_interval == 15.0 + assert [n for n, _ in per_fetch] == [2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0] # never a 5-call fetch + assert per_fetch[-1][1] == ["AAPL", "MSFT"] + assert provider._session_date == published + quotes = await provider.fetch(["AAPL", "MSFT"]) + assert quotes["AAPL"].basis == "session_open" + + +async def test_validate_ticker_distinguishes_real_symbols(): + def handler(request): + if "NOTATICKER" in request.url.path: + return httpx.Response(404, json={"status": "ERROR"}) + return httpx.Response(200, json={"resultsCount": 1}) + provider = _provider(handler) + assert await provider.validate_ticker("AAPL") is True + assert await provider.validate_ticker("NOTATICKER") is False + + +async def test_retries_transient_statuses(): + attempts = {"n": 0} + + def handler(request): + attempts["n"] += 1 + if attempts["n"] < 3: + return httpx.Response(429, json={"status": "ERROR"}) + return httpx.Response(200, json={"tickers": [ + {"ticker": "AAPL", "day": {"c": 1.0}, "prevDay": {"c": 1.0}}]}) + + assert "AAPL" in await _provider(handler).fetch(["AAPL"]) + assert attempts["n"] == 3 +``` + +### 16.5 Cache, engine and stream tests + +These excerpts assume the module-level imports of the surrounding test file +(`asyncio`, `json`, `datetime`, `httpx`, and the `app.market` names). + +```python +async def test_engine_prunes_tickers_that_left_the_watchlist(): + cache = PriceCache() + watched = ["AAPL", "MSFT"] + engine = PriceEngine(SimulatorProvider(seed=5), cache, lambda: watched) + await engine.poll_once() + assert sorted(cache.snapshot()) == ["AAPL", "MSFT"] + watched.remove("MSFT") + await engine.poll_once() + assert sorted(cache.snapshot()) == ["AAPL"] + + +async def test_engine_survives_a_failing_provider(): + class Broken(SimulatorProvider): + async def fetch(self, tickers): + raise httpx.ConnectError("upstream down") + + cache = PriceCache() + cache.update([Quote("AAPL", 190.0, 188.0, datetime.now(timezone.utc))]) + engine = PriceEngine(Broken(seed=1, poll_interval=0.01), cache, lambda: ["AAPL"]) + engine.start() + await asyncio.sleep(0.05) + await engine.stop() + assert cache.get_price("AAPL") == 190.0 # stale, not blank +``` + +Testing the SSE endpoint needs one piece of local knowledge: **httpx's +`ASGITransport` runs the app to completion before returning the response, so +it deadlocks on an endless stream.** Drive the generator directly instead — +it takes anything with an async `is_disconnected()`: + +```python +class StubRequest: + """Stands in for starlette's Request: disconnects after `alive` checks.""" + + def __init__(self, alive: int): + self.alive = alive + + async def is_disconnected(self) -> bool: + self.alive -= 1 + return self.alive < 0 + + +async def test_stream_emits_retry_then_a_frame_per_change(): + cache = PriceCache() + now = datetime.now(timezone.utc) + cache.update([Quote("AAPL", 190.0, 188.0, now)]) + + frames = [] + async def drive(): + async for frame in _events(cache, StubRequest(3)): + frames.append(frame) + + task = asyncio.create_task(drive()) + await asyncio.sleep(0.3) + cache.update([Quote("AAPL", 191.0, 188.0, now)]) + await task + + assert frames[0] == "retry: 1000\n\n" + assert all(f.startswith("event: prices\ndata: ") for f in frames[1:]) + payload = json.loads(frames[2].split("data: ", 1)[1]) + assert payload["prices"][0]["direction"] == "up" + assert payload["prices"][0]["price"] == 191.0 +``` + +E2E (`test/`, Playwright, per `PLAN.md` §12) covers the real transport: load +the page, assert prices change within a few seconds, kill the connection and +assert the status dot returns to green after `EventSource` reconnects. + +### 16.6 Manual smoke test + +```bash +cd backend +uv run uvicorn app.main:app --port 8000 # simulator by default +curl -N http://localhost:8000/api/stream/prices | head -20 +``` + +--- + +## 17. Configuration Summary + +| Variable | Default | Effect | +|---|---|---| +| `MASSIVE_API_KEY` | unset | Non-empty selects `MassiveProvider`; absent or empty selects the simulator | +| `MARKET_POLL_SECONDS` | provider default | Overrides `poll_interval` at construction (the Massive downgrade may still widen it) | +| `SIMULATOR_SEED` | unset | Fixes the simulator's RNG. Set in E2E; leave unset in production | + +Constants worth knowing, all in code rather than environment: + +| Constant | Value | Module | +|---|---|---| +| `PUSH_INTERVAL` | 0.5s | `stream.py` — SSE change-detection cadence | +| `HEARTBEAT_SECONDS` | 15s | `stream.py` — keep-alive comment | +| `FREE_TIER_POLL_SECONDS` | 15s | `massive.py` — 4 calls/min against a 5/min limit | +| `SESSION_REFRESH_SECONDS` | 900s | `massive.py` — how often to look for a newer session bar | +| `MAX_LOOKBACK_DAYS` | 5 | `massive.py` — gives up rather than searching forever | +| `TRADING_MINUTES_PER_YEAR` | 98,280 | `simulator.py` — 252 × 390 | +| `SESSION_TICKS` | 390 | `simulator.py` — ticks per simulated session | + +Dependencies: `uv add httpx`. `numpy` and `massive` are no longer needed +(`uv remove numpy massive`) — the two-factor correlation model replaces +numpy's Cholesky decomposition, and `httpx` replaces the synchronous +official client. Test dependencies are unchanged: `pytest`, +`pytest-asyncio`, `pytest-cov`, `ruff`. + +--- + +## 18. Migration from the Existing Implementation + +`backend/app/market/` currently holds the push-based implementation described +in `MARKET_DATA_SUMMARY.md`. Replace it module for module: + +| Existing | Replacement | Why | +|---|---|---| +| `models.PriceUpdate` | `types.Quote` + `types.PriceTick` | Splits what a provider reports from what the cache derives; adds `reference`/`basis` so the UI can show a daily change | +| `interface.MarketDataSource` (owns a background task, writes the cache) | `provider.MarketDataProvider` (pure `fetch`) + `engine.PriceEngine` | Timing leaves the providers; both become plain async functions to test | +| `cache.PriceCache.update(ticker, price)` | `cache.PriceCache.update(quotes)` | Batch write, returns changed ticks, suppresses no-ops, drops the unnecessary lock | +| `simulator.GBMSimulator` + `SimulatorDataSource` (numpy Cholesky) | `simulator.SimulatorProvider` (two-factor, stdlib only) | Same correlations, no numpy, ~90 fewer lines | +| `seed_prices.py` | `simulator.UNIVERSE` / `derive_spec` | One file; adds stable pricing for user-added tickers | +| `massive_client.MassiveDataSource` (sync `massive` package) | `massive.MassiveProvider` (async httpx) | No event-loop blocking; adds the free-tier 403 downgrade and rate-limit discipline | +| `factory.create_market_data_source(cache)` | `factory.create_provider()` | Providers no longer know the cache exists | +| `stream.create_stream_router(cache)` | same name, new payload | Named `prices` event, list payload, `change_percent`, `basis`, heartbeats | +| `tests/market/*` | rewritten per §16 | Contract suite replaces per-implementation duplication | + +`market_data_demo.py` needs a small edit: build a `PriceCache` + +`PriceEngine` instead of calling `source.start(tickers)`, and read +`tick.change_percent` for the daily column. + +Nothing outside `app/market/` imports these names today, so the blast radius +is the package plus its tests. + +--- + +## 19. Implementation Checklist + +1. `uv add httpx`; `uv remove numpy massive`. +2. `types.py`, `provider.py` — no dependencies, no logic to get wrong. +3. `cache.py` + `test_cache.py` — direction, no-op suppression, prune, version. +4. `simulator.py` + `test_simulator.py` — get the volatility and correlation + tests passing before anything else; they catch the two classic GBM errors. +5. `engine.py` + `test_engine.py` — `poll_once`, prune wiring, cadence, + survival of a failing provider. +6. `factory.py` — selection and the startup log line. +7. `stream.py` + `test_stream.py` — frame format via the stub request. +8. Wire `create_app()` (§13); `curl -N /api/stream/prices` and watch prices + move under the simulator. This is the first end-to-end checkpoint. +9. `massive.py` + `test_massive.py` — parsing, 403 downgrade, call-count + discipline, retries, `validate_ticker`. +10. Watchlist routes (§14) once the DB layer exists; `watched_tickers()` is + the contract between it and the engine. +11. Optional, with a real key: `MASSIVE_API_KEY=... uv run uvicorn app.main:app` + and confirm the startup log names the provider and, on a free key, the + downgrade warning. + +Steps 2-8 have no external dependencies and no API key, so the entire live +price feed can be built and demonstrated before the Massive client exists.