Richer LLM output (same grounded call, ~no extra cost):
- All providers now also return a recommendation (buy/hold/avoid) and a thorough
reasoning paragraph; Gemini now actually captures reasoning + grounding
citations (it was dropping them). Stored on sentiment_scores (migration 008),
exposed in the API; display-only — NOT fed into the composite/EV.
- Ticker Sentiment panel shows an "LLM view" badge and a "Full analysis & sources"
expander with the complete reasoning + citations.
Search-budget scoping (Gemini grounding free tier = 5000/mo):
- collect_sentiment now targets only watchlist + open paper trades + top-N by
composite, skips tickers refreshed within sentiment_fresh_hours (72h), and caps
per run (sentiment_max_per_run). Once the relevant set is fresh, runs spend 0
searches until it ages out — bounding monthly usage well under the free tier.
- Widened sentiment lookback to 7d (scoring + display) so sparser collection
still feeds the dimension score.
Deploy: alembic upgrade (sentiment_scores.recommendation). Switch provider to
Gemini Flash in Admin for the cost win (grounded, cheapest).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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