Verdict from the 3-week signal log (backtest/research/news_sentiment_value_2026-09-04.md):
news_sentiment is a trailing-24h echo of price (r +0.67 with the past day, +0.03 with
the next; most bullish 2 h after the 08-25 top, bearish 44 h later; most bearish at the
09-02 low, bullish 16 h later). Per-headline LLM labels are correct; the 12 h pool and
the averaging are what destroy the information. Both gating flags stay False.
- news_engine: _LLM_SUMMARY_SYSTEM rewritten for someone who has never traded (no
acronyms, two worked examples); summary payload newest-first with the platform's own
gold direction; reply cap 300 -> 400 chars.
- config: headline_max_age_seconds 43200 -> 14400; RSS items without a parsable
pubDate are dropped (they used to be stamped "now" and never aged out).
- news_engine.get_fundamental_context drops headlines whose every relevant score is
inside +-0.1 (_is_neutral_headline) before the per-currency mean; news_sentiment
from this date is a mean over directional <=4 h headlines (log comparisons split here).
- static: dashboard copy for the 4 h pool; news_summary.php prompt gets the same style rule.
- analyze_signal_log: --news (under --stored-candles) prints sentiment lead/lag with
split halves, sentiment at the window high/low with flip lags, and outcome buckets by
direction x news x macro stance; LogRow gains news_sentiment/event_risk; _row_index shared.
- tests: 406 -> 414 (age window, undated drop, neutral filter, summary prompt/payload/cap,
--news helpers, load_rows round-trip); RSS fixtures now carry a pubDate.
- docs: user/beginner guides, CLAUDE.md, deploy README.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0169BgFtWjp1SEAa5392Q9jH
Page now uses Bootstrap 5.3 color modes (data-bs-theme), Bootstrap Icons,
and Bootstrap modals. Custom code shrinks to dashboard.css (app tokens,
score bar, signal accents) and dashboard.js (rendering/polling logic,
ported verbatim from the inline script). dashboard_publisher copies the
new css/js into the docroot; all 381 tests still green.
poll() now compares raw payload text and re-renders only what a changed
file can affect, preserving selection, disclosure, and scroll state. Hero
freshness reflects publish time (STALE warning past 15 min while market
open), and countdowns resolve their wrap interval from data-interval
instead of reverse-looking shared TF boundaries in snapshot.timeframes.
main.py: --panel runs the agent panel on demand (force bypasses
enabled/surface/quality toggles; daily budget + LLM cap still apply),
prints the verdict + persona takes, and report_to_dict carries the four
panel keys — which auto-propagates them into the dashboard's
snapshot.json via report_to_webapp_dict. dashboard_publisher attaches
in scan_tf gated by agent_panel.dashboard (default off); dashboard.html
renders an "AI panel (advisory)" section in the TF detail dialog.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SisdfkxnXNL9iZsXxN3T15
Owner-supplied page design replacing the dark-only v1: Bootstrap 5
colour tokens with a luma-inverted dark mode (toggle + system-pref +
localStorage), compact clickable TF cards opening a full-detail modal
(all-nine indicator table with value/conf/weight, price ladder of key
levels vs spot, per-confirmation-TF drilldowns, provenance), newswire
aggregate sentiment box, Inter/JetBrains Mono webfonts.
Re-applied the c70f58a sync fixes the source copy predated: 5 s
conditional-GET polling and the +2 s boundary refetch sniper. Data
logic otherwise unchanged; all fields verified against
report_to_webapp_dict output.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017mbXs9HRawZhD1uZ3ze7zQ
Three display-side fixes, no signal-logic changes:
- run_cycle publishes snapshot.json BEFORE the news refresh — news I/O
(FF + 4 RSS + possible DeepSeek calls) took 20-30 s on TTL-expired
cycles and kept fresh signals off the page (publish_all split into
publish_snapshot/publish_news, kept for boot)
- page polls every 5 s (was 20 s) using conditional GETs: dropped the
?t= cache-buster + no-store so Apache answers unchanged files with
bodyless 304s
- boundary refetch sniper re-armed: fires 2 s after next_scan_epoch
regardless of distance (the old delay<POLL_MS guard would have been
dead code at 5 s polling)
New Module 20 test locks the snapshot-before-news ordering. 352 tests.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017mbXs9HRawZhD1uZ3ze7zQ
- dashboard_publisher.py: standalone candle-close daemon that atomically
writes snapshot.json/news.json/dashboard.html to an Apache-served dir
(DASHBOARD_OUT_DIR). Fully independent of telegram_bot/oanda_daemon —
local confirmation map + boundary math, no imports either way, no new
deps, no open port. Due-TF classification from the RAW wake time.
- static/dashboard.html: self-contained dark page — hero rail, four TF
cards (score bar, 3x3 indicator grid, MTF, setup, reasons), DeepSeek
market context, week economic calendar, scored newswire. Clock offset
from the HTTP Date header (publish-time epoch is stale between closes).
- news_engine.get_week_events(): additive read-only accessor over the
cached FF week; no signal path calls it.
- deploy/: systemd unit + live-server (LAMP/SELinux) checklist.
- test_all.py: Module 20 (9 tests) + get_week_events test; 296 green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wc9ZoqKLYBT2QJcpRWKoGm
Harwinder Sekhon