Building a WebSocket Market News Consumer in Python: From First Event to Threshold-Gated Signals
If you're building a trading bot, raw headlines are a liability. What you want from a websocket market news feed is not more events — it's fewer, scored ones, arriving fast enough to act on. Forecite delivers exactly that: 180,000+ news items a week ingested one hop from the publisher (SEC EDGAR, wire services, exchanges, central banks, macro releases), each scored by the Verdict Engine and pushed to subscribers in under 50 milliseconds.
This tutorial walks through a production-shaped consumer using the Python SDK: first event on screen, then reconnects, backpressure, threshold gating into a signal queue, and REST catch-up so a dropped connection doesn't become a blind spot.
What you're consuming
Every event on the feed carries two numbers you'll build your logic around:
