Reddit Options Trader (ROT)

Real-time Reddit trend detection → ticker-aware signal extraction → market-enriched trade ideas.

ROT is an experimental research system that monitors high-velocity Reddit discussions, detects emerging trends, extracts tradable tickers, enriches them with market data, and generates structured trade ideas.

This is not a backtester or an execution bot. It is a signal discovery and intelligence pipeline.

Live Pipeline loop output

JSONL artifact outputs (storage/)

What It Does (Current State)

ROT runs as a continuous loop:

1. Ingests Reddit in real time

   • Uses PRAW to stream posts from subreddits like:

     • r/wallstreetbets
     • r/stocks

   • Supports hot, rising, new, top

   • Deduplicates previously seen posts

2. Detects trending discussions

   • Computes momentum using:

     • score velocity
     • comment velocity

   • Emits TrendCandidates when rate thresholds are exceeded

3. Ranks top signals

   • Global top trends (all posts)
   • Ticker-aware ranking (only posts with valid tradable symbols)
   • Outputs live “Top Signals” and “Top Ticker Signals” every cycle

4. Extracts and validates tickers

   • Supports:

     • $TSLA style mentions
     • bare tickers (TSLA)

   • Filters:

     • macro words (AI, IPO, USD, WSB, etc.)
     • non-equities
     • delisted / invalid symbols

   • Alias handling (e.g. SPXW → ^GSPC, TSMC → TSM)

5. Market enrichment

   • Pulls live market data via yfinance
   • Caches results locally to avoid re-fetching
   • Adds market metadata into event objects

6. Event → reasoning → trade ideas

   • Converts signals into structured Events
   • Runs LLM reasoning (DeepSeek integration stubbed / optional)
   • Emits example option trade ideas (directional, not executable)

7. Writes everything to disk

   • JSONL logs for:

     • snapshots
     • trend candidates
     • top signals
     • ticker signals
     • events
     • reasoning packets
     • trade ideas

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Example Output (Live)

🔥 Top signals:
  1. wallstreetbets | What Are Your Moves Tomorrow, January 05, 2026 [-]
  2. wallstreetbets | Investing changed my life [HYSA]
  3. wallstreetbets | Closed SPXW $6875.00C (+92%) [^GSPC]

🎯 Top ticker signals:
  1. wallstreetbets | Closed SPXW $6875.00C (+92%) [^GSPC]
  2. wallstreetbets | My Turn. Became a millionaire in 2025 [GOOGL]
  3. wallstreetbets | Drones and Space 🛩️🚀 [ASTS,RKLB,LUNR]

(Exact output varies by market conditions.)

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Project Structure

src/rot/
├── app/                # main loop + pipeline runner
├── ingest/             # Reddit ingestion (PRAW)
├── trend/              # trend detection & ranking
├── extract/            # entity & ticker extraction
├── market/             # symbol validation + enrichment
├── credibility/        # signal confidence scoring
├── reasoner/           # LLM reasoning layer (DeepSeek)
├── core/               # types, logging, utilities
storage/
├── *.jsonl             # emitted signals & logs
├── market_cache.json   # cached market data

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Setup

1. Install dependencies

pip install praw yfinance

2. Set Reddit API credentials

export ROT_REDDIT_CLIENT_ID="..."
export ROT_REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET="..."
export ROT_REDDIT_USER_AGENT="rot:v0.1 (by u_yourname)"

3. Run once

python -m rot.app.main

4. Run continuously

python -m rot.app.loop

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What This Is Not

• Not a trading bot
• Not financial advice
• Not a backtesting framework
• Not optimized for latency or execution

This is signal intelligence, not order placement.

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Why This Exists

Most retail trading systems:

• React to price after the move
• Ignore social momentum structure
• Treat Reddit as noise

ROT treats Reddit as:

• A high-energy signal surface
• Where crowd conviction forms before price fully adjusts
• Especially relevant for options-driven markets

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Roadmap (Next Logical Steps)

• Confidence-weighted ticker ranking
• Time-decay signal persistence
• Options chain awareness (IV, OI, expiry clustering)
• Cross-subreddit correlation
• Backtesting harness (offline replay)
• Alerting (Slack / Discord / email)
• Live dashboard

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Disclaimer

This project is for research and experimentation only. Nothing here constitutes financial advice.