Polymarket News Events

Monitors 20+ premium RSS feeds for breaking news and matches stories to Polymarket markets via keyword analysis. Trades when breaking news creates an estimat...

Breaking News Event Trader

Comprehensive breaking news monitor that trades Polymarket markets on high-impact events.

What It Does

Continuously polls 20+ premium news RSS feeds, pre-filters stories with fast keyword matching, then matches relevant stories to active Polymarket markets. When a breaking story has estimated price impact >12%, generates a trade signal.

News Sources

Category	Sources
Wire Services	Reuters, AP
Broadcast	BBC, CNBC
Financial	Bloomberg, FT, MarketWatch, WSJ
Politics	Politico, Axios, The Hill
Crypto	CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph
Tech	TechCrunch

Pre-Filter System

Two-stage filtering for speed:

1. Fast reject — Skip stories with common noise keywords (opinion, podcast, review)
2. Fast accept — Prioritize stories with high-signal keywords (breaking, passes, signs, ruling, indicted, default, crash, surge)

Only stories passing pre-filter get matched against Polymarket markets.

Impact Estimation

Stories are scored on:

• Source credibility tier (wire services > financial > blogs)
• Keyword signal strength
• Headline match quality to market question
• Recency (exponential decay over 30 minutes)

Requirements

pip dependencies: simmer-sdk, requests, feedparser

Environment variables:

• SIMMER_API_KEY (required) - get from simmer.markets/dashboard

⚠️ Automated trading. Dry-run is the default. Pass --live to execute real trades. Review all configuration before enabling live mode.

Usage

python news_events.py                  # dry run
python news_events.py --live           # real trades
python news_events.py --live --quiet   # cron mode

🧪 Remixable Template — Fork this skill to add your own RSS sources, tune impact thresholds, add sentiment analysis, or integrate with a news API for faster delivery than RSS.