Alpha Vantage requests had no timeout (a stall could hang the run) and any
notice mentioning "API key" was raised as a rate limit — so an invalid/missing
key was mislabeled and silently treated as transient. Add a 30s request timeout
and classify rate-limit phrasing before key errors (rate-limit notices also
mention "API key"), surfacing a bad key as a real configuration error.
yfinance treats end as exclusive, so get_YFin_data_online dropped the requested
end_date row and load_ohlcv dropped the current day. Request one day past the
end so the range is inclusive (look-ahead is still prevented by the curr_date
filter; the header still shows the requested range). Also correct the load_ohlcv
docstring to the 5-year window it actually downloads.
The router silently extended every request to all available vendors regardless
of config, so an explicit single-vendor choice still fell back to others and
returned data from an unexpected source (#988, #289), and serious primary-vendor
errors were swallowed without a trace (#989). The configured vendor list is now
the exact chain (list several for ordered fallback; "default" uses all), unknown
vendors raise, and swallowed vendor errors are logged. Adds an autouse config
isolation fixture so vendor config can't leak between tests.
The CLI validated, normalized, and classified tickers with its own logic that
diverged from the data layer: it rejected '=' symbols like GC=F (#980),
classified BTCUSD as a stock (#981), and accepted unpriceable BTC-USDT (#982).
Route the CLI through normalize_symbol (now mapping USDT/USDC crypto quotes to
Yahoo's -USD pair), so validation, classification, and pricing agree.
Analyzing a symbol Yahoo Finance does not recognize (e.g. XAUUSD+) could
produce an invented price instead of an error. The agent now either prices
the correct instrument or clearly reports that data is unavailable.
Ticker support:
- Commodities/forex/crypto resolve to the symbol Yahoo actually serves, so
you can enter the common form and it just works:
XAUUSD / XAUUSD+ / GOLD -> GC=F (gold)
USOIL -> CL=F (WTI crude)
EURUSD -> EURUSD=X
BTCUSD -> BTC-USD
SPX500 / NAS100 -> ^GSPC / ^NDX
Native Yahoo symbols (AAPL, GC=F, ^GSPC) keep working unchanged. New
instruments are added by extending the alias table.
Reliability:
- Unknown or delisted symbols now return a clear "data unavailable" result
the agent reports verbatim, instead of a value the model fills in.
- A failed fetch no longer leaves a broken symbol cached until the cache is
cleared by hand.
The market analyst could confabulate exact figures — citing a Bollinger
band or a "historically validated bounce" the data doesn't support (#830).
Add a deterministic get_verified_market_snapshot tool (latest OHLCV row,
common indicators, recent closes) the analyst must consult and treat as
the source of truth for any exact price/indicator claim, and instruct it
not to assert historical validation or support bounces without tool-backed
dates and prices.
#830
yfinance 1.4.0 regressed the daily-download index to unnamed, so
reset_index() produced an "index" column instead of "Date" and every
stockstats indicator silently failed (no SMA/RSI/MACD/Bollinger/ATR).
Verified across versions: 1.2.0 / 1.3.0 / 1.4.1 name it "Date"; only
1.4.0 is broken. Pin to >=1.4.1 (the upstream fix) and normalize the
date column defensively so a non-"Date" index can't silently drop
indicators on any build.
#890
Reddit blocks the anonymous JSON search endpoint, which silently emptied
the sentiment analyst's Reddit source. Fall back to the public RSS search
feed when JSON fails. RSS lacks score/comment counts, so those posts are
marked "via RSS feed" rather than shown with fake zeros.
#862
Per-ticker article limit, global article limit, global lookback
window, and macro query list are now read from get_config()
instead of being hardcoded. Tool wrapper get_global_news passes
None defaults so config overrides flow through the LLM-tool path
too. Macro query defaults broadened from 4 US-centric strings to
5 covering Fed, S&P 500, geopolitics, ECB/BOJ/BOE, commodities.
#606#558#562
Pre-fetches news + StockTwits + Reddit via no-auth public endpoints
and injects structured data blocks into the prompt with professional
analysis instructions. Replaces the prompt-vs-tool mismatch that
caused fabricated social-platform content. Backward-compat alias +
"social" CLI key preserved.
#557#607
- dataflows/config: deepcopy + one-level dict merge so a partial
set_config doesn't clobber sibling defaults
- graph: thread max_recur_limit from config to Propagator
- openai_client: name the missing env var in the API-key error
#788#764#680
The ticker symbol reaches three filesystem-path construction sites
(load_ohlcv cache filename, checkpointer DB path, _log_state results
directory) without validation. A value containing path separators or
"../" escapes the configured cache / checkpoints / results directory.
Two attack vectors:
- Programmatic callers passing arbitrary ticker to propagate()
- Prompt injection via fetched news content steering the LLM into
tool calls with attacker-chosen ticker
Fix: new safe_ticker_component() validator in tradingagents/dataflows/
utils.py applied at all three sites. Allows the standard ticker
character set ([A-Za-z0-9._\-\^], up to 32 chars) and explicitly
rejects dot-only values like "." and ".." which would otherwise pass
the regex but traverse parent directories. Seven test cases cover
the accepted formats (BRK-B, 7203.T, ^GSPC, etc.) and the rejected
inputs (path separators, null bytes, whitespace, empty values,
overlong strings, dot-only values).
Closes#618.
Add _clean_dataframe() to normalize stock DataFrames before stockstats:
coerce invalid dates/prices, drop rows missing Close, fill price gaps.
Also add on_bad_lines="skip" to all cached CSV reads.
- Replace hardcoded column indices with column name lookup
- Add mapping for all supported indicators to their expected CSV column names
- Handle missing columns gracefully with descriptive error messages
- Strip whitespace from header parsing for reliability
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- Replace FinnHub with Alpha Vantage API in README documentation
- Implement comprehensive Alpha Vantage modules:
- Stock data (daily OHLCV with date filtering)
- Technical indicators (SMA, EMA, MACD, RSI, Bollinger Bands, ATR)
- Fundamental data (overview, balance sheet, cashflow, income statement)
- News and sentiment data with insider transactions
- Update news analyst tools to use ticker-based news search
- Integrate Alpha Vantage vendor methods into interface routing
- Maintain backward compatibility with existing vendor system
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