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Harwinder Sekhon a3d7594f0c news: beginner-language summary, 4 h headline window, drop neutral headlines; --news log report
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
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# Deploying the web dashboard (live LAMP server)
The dashboard is a **static publisher**: `dashboard_publisher.py` runs as its
own daemon, scans XAU/USD at candle closes, and atomically writes
`dashboard.html` + `news_summary.php` + `snapshot.json` + `news.json` into a
folder Apache already serves. Apache does all web serving — no new port, no
Python web server, and the telegram bot process is completely unaffected by
anything that happens here (see the module docstring for the independence
rules). The one dynamic piece is `news_summary.php` (§6): an on-demand
DeepSeek summary for a clicked headline, whitelist-gated against news.json.
All steps below run **on the live server** (`/home/Forex/ForexBot2`).
## 1. Get the code
```bash
cd /home/Forex/ForexBot2
git pull
venv/bin/python test_all.py # optional sanity: suite must be green
```
No new Python dependencies are required.
## 2. Make the web folder writable
The dashboard publishes straight into the portal docroot `/var/www/trade/`
(owner decision 2026-08-03) — it adds exactly four files there:
`dashboard.html`, `news_summary.php`, `snapshot.json`, `news.json` (plus the
apache-owned `ai/` cache dir from §6). The daemon user must be able to write
them:
```bash
# if the portal files can be owned by the daemon user:
sudo chown Forex: /var/www/trade
# otherwise grant write without changing ownership:
sudo setfacl -m u:Forex:rwx /var/www/trade
```
(A different path is one edit away: the unit's `Environment=DASHBOARD_OUT_DIR=`
line, or `--out` for one-off runs.)
SELinux (RHEL/Alma/CentOS enforcing): directories under `/var/www` normally
already carry `httpd_sys_content_t`, and new files inherit the parent label, so
no action is usually needed. If Apache 403s despite correct permissions:
```bash
sudo restorecon -R /var/www/trade
```
## 3. Smoke-test once
```bash
venv/bin/python dashboard_publisher.py --once
ls /var/www/trade # dashboard.html snapshot.json news.json added next to the portal
```
Then open `http://<server>/dashboard.html` (path relative to however the
vhost maps `/var/www/trade`) — all four timeframe cards, the calendar, and
the newswire should populate.
## 4. Install the daemon
```bash
sudo cp deploy/gold-dashboard.service /etc/systemd/system/
# edit User= if the repo owner is not "Forex"
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now gold-dashboard
systemctl status gold-dashboard
tail -f logs/dashboard.log
```
The daemon scans all four timeframes at boot, then wakes at every M5
boundary (+10 s) and rescans whichever timeframes just closed. Logs rotate
every 3 h (240 backups), same scheme as the bot.
## 5. Optional Apache polish
The page polls its JSON with conditional GETs (`cache: "no-cache"` → Apache
answers unchanged files with 304), so no Apache config is strictly needed. To
be explicit anyway:
```apache
<Directory "/var/www/trade">
<FilesMatch "\.json$">
Header set Cache-Control "no-cache"
</FilesMatch>
</Directory>
```
The page is deliberately public (owner decision 2026-08-03). To restrict it
later, add standard Apache basic auth (`htpasswd` + `Require valid-user`) on
that directory — no code changes needed.
## 6. AI summary endpoint (PHP) — one-time setup
Clicking a newswire headline opens a detail dialog that fetches an on-demand
DeepSeek gold-impact summary from `news_summary.php` (installed next to the
page by the daemon). Owner decision 2026-08-07: a real on-demand endpoint on
the public page, accepted with these guards baked into the PHP — the id must
match a headline in the published news.json (arbitrary text can never reach
the LLM), each headline's summary is cached forever in `ai/` (≤1 API call per
headline, ever), and a file-based daily cap fails **closed** on I/O errors.
Since 2026-09-04 the engine publishes only headlines up to 4 h old whose
score leans one way (neutral items are dropped), so a headline leaves the
whitelist sooner: a dialog left open past that point returns `unknown_id`
("This headline has left the live feed"); summaries already cached in `ai/`
stay reachable.
Requirements: `php` + the curl extension (`php -m | grep curl`).
```bash
# 1. SELinux: allow httpd outbound HTTPS — WITHOUT this every summary call
# dies as a curl timeout even with perfect perms (RHEL-family default).
sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
# 2. API key OUTSIDE the docroot, readable by Apache only:
sudo install -d -o root -g root -m 755 /etc/gold-dashboard
sudo sh -c 'umask 137; echo "sk-..." > /etc/gold-dashboard/deepseek.key'
sudo chown root:apache /etc/gold-dashboard/deepseek.key # mode 640
# 3. apache-owned cache dir (the daemon runs as Forex and can't create it):
sudo install -d -o apache -g apache -m 755 /var/www/trade/ai
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t '/var/www/trade/ai(/.*)?'
sudo restorecon -Rv /var/www/trade/ai
```
Knobs (Apache `SetEnv` in the vhost, both optional):
`AI_SUMMARY_DAILY_CAP` (default 150), `DEEPSEEK_KEY_FILE` (default
`/etc/gold-dashboard/deepseek.key`).
Verify from the shell — expect 400 / 404 / 200 / 200-from-cache:
```bash
curl -s "http://<server>/news_summary.php?id=zzz" # {"error":"bad_id"}
curl -s "http://<server>/news_summary.php?id=$(printf 'a%.0s' {1..40})" # unknown_id
ID=$(python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('/var/www/trade/news.json'))['headlines'][0]['id'])")
curl -s "http://<server>/news_summary.php?id=$ID" # real summary (2-12 s)
curl -s "http://<server>/news_summary.php?id=$ID" # instant, from ai/<id>.json
```
## Operational notes
- **Updating**: `git pull` + `systemctl restart gold-dashboard`. The daemon
re-copies `static/dashboard.html` and `static/news_summary.php` into the
web folder at startup.
- **If the daemon dies**, systemd restarts it in 30 s; worst case the page
shows stale data with its own "updated N min ago" evidence. Apache and the
telegram bot are unaffected.
- **DeepSeek**: the publisher process has its own daily request cap
(`deepseek.daily_request_cap`, default 500) separate from the bot's —
expect roughly up to ~430 extra calls/day worst case, V4-Flash pricing.
- **Two independent DeepSeek meters** hit the same API key: the publisher's
in-process cap above, and the PHP endpoint's file cap (`ai/.ht_cap.json`,
default 150/day). They don't communicate — worst-case spend is their sum;
DeepSeek-side spend alerting is the true backstop. Kept separate on
purpose (independence rule: the PHP never imports/reads bot code or
config.json).
- **Restart window**: for the first minutes after a daemon restart the new
page can meet a pre-upgrade news.json without headline ids — those rows
simply render non-clickable until the first news publish.
- **Credentials**: uses the same env/.env/config.json resolution as the rest
of the platform (Oanda candles feed; news needs no key; DeepSeek optional).