market-pulse

1# Market pulse
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3Answer "what's happening *right now*?" from AlphaAI's feed. Two tools cover two
4different questions — pick the right one:
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6- **`alphai_actionable_now`** — breaking, *decision-grade* news from the last few
7  hours. The gate is strict: by default only `actionability='high'` (something to
8  act on TODAY — guidance cut, halted trading, breaking M&A, surprise print).
9- **`alphai_trending`** — top stories of the last 48h by relevance. The "big
10  picture", not necessarily urgent.
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12## Steps
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141. **Start narrow, with `alphai_actionable_now()`** (defaults: last 6h,
15   high-actionability). This is the real "is anything breaking" signal.
162. **Read an empty result correctly.** Outside major market hours (nights,
17   weekends — crypto trades 24/7, but high-actionability prints still cluster in
18   US/European/Asian sessions) an empty list is *expected* — it means no
19   high-actionability prints in the window, **not** that the tool failed. Before
20   concluding "nothing happened", widen once: `alphai_actionable_now(hours=24, min_actionability='medium')`.
213. **Add the backdrop with `alphai_trending(limit=10)`.** Use this for the
22   "bigger stories shaping the week" layer even when nothing is breaking.
234. **Optional focus.** If the user named a sector or theme, resolve it to
24   tickers (`alphai_tickers(q=...)` or your own knowledge), then
25   `alphai_news_search(tickers=[...], min_relevance=7)` — there is no free-text
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