Robinhood AI Trading Bot

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⚡ Overview

The Robinhood AI Trading Bot is a simple Python script that combines OpenAI's intelligence with Robinhood's trading capabilities to help automate and optimize stock trading decisions. By analyzing Relative Strength Index (RSI), Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP), Moving Averages, and Robinhood analyst ratings, the bot generates buy, sell, and hold recommendations — executing trades automatically based on your selected mode.

🤔 Why This Bot?

This project is an experiment to explore how AI can enhance stock trading decisions — potentially outperforming human traders (or at least me, The Bot Father).

⚠️ Important Considerations

• Start in Demo or Manual Mode before enabling Auto Mode.
• Test thoroughly to fine-tune AI decision-making.
• Monitor trade logs to understand AI-driven actions.

🛠 Features

✅ AI-Driven Trading – Smart, data-backed buy/sell decisions.
✅ Portfolio & Watchlist Integration – Trade directly from your Robinhood stocks.
✅ Configurable Strategy – Set trading parameters to fit your risk profile.
✅ Exclusion List – Prevent trading specific stocks.
✅ Logging & Analytics – Track bot activity and trading history.
✅ Workday Scheduling – Align trading activity with market hours.

🚀 Getting Started

1. Connect Your Accounts: Add your OpenAI API Key and Robinhood credentials.
2. Choose a Mode:
   • Demo Mode: Simulates trades without execution.
   • Manual Mode: Requires confirmation before executing trades.
   • Auto Mode: Executes trades automatically (recommended only after testing).
3. Monitor and Adjust: Review trade logs and fine-tune settings for optimal performance.

📊 How It Works

1. Authenticate: Logs into OpenAI and Robinhood.
2. Fetch Data: Retrieves stocks from your portfolio and watchlist.
3. Analyze Market Conditions:
   • RSI: Determines overbought/oversold conditions.
   • VWAP: Identifies undervalued/overvalued stocks.
   • Moving Averages: Evaluates price trends (50-day and 200-day).
   • Analyst Ratings: Incorporates Robinhood's expert opinions.
4. AI-Driven Decisions: Uses OpenAI to generate trading recommendations.
5. Trade Execution: Buys, sells, or holds stocks based on AI insights.
6. Continuous Monitoring: Repeats analysis and trades as the market evolves.

📈 Analytical System

Relative Strength Index (RSI)

• Measures momentum on a 0-100 scale.
• Above 70: Overbought (potential sell signal).
• Below 30: Oversold (potential buy signal).

Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)

• Calculates the average price adjusted for volume.
• Above VWAP: Overvalued (potential sell signal).
• Below VWAP: Undervalued (potential buy signal).

Moving Averages

• 50-day & 200-day moving averages help detect trends.
• Golden Cross (50-day crosses above 200-day): Bullish signal.
• Death Cross (50-day crosses below 200-day): Bearish signal.

Robinhood Analyst Ratings

• Aggregates buy, hold, and sell recommendations.
• Provides sentiment analysis based on expert insights.

🤖 AI-Powered Decision Making

The bot formulates decisions using OpenAI based on:

• RSI, VWAP, moving averages, and analyst ratings.
• User-defined constraints (e.g., budget, stock exclusions, portfolio size).
• Pattern Day Trading (PDT) status to prevent PDT designation.

Example AI Prompt:

**Context:**
Today is 2025-02-03T12:23:02Z.
You are a short-term investment advisor managing a stock portfolio.
You analyze market conditions every 3600 seconds and make investment decisions.

**Constraints:**
- Initial budget: 0.22 USD
- Max portfolio size: 20 stocks
- Excluded stocks: VOO, SPY, IVV

**Stock Data:**
```json
{
 "AAPL": {
  "current_price": 226.79,
  "my_quantity": 0.0927,
  "my_average_buy_price": 226.43,
  "rsi": 40.47,
  "vwap": 228.41,
  "50_day_mavg_price": 240.23,
  "200_day_mavg_price": 219.7,
  "analyst_summary": {
   "num_buy_ratings": 30,
   "num_hold_ratings": 17,
   "num_sell_ratings": 5
  },
  "analyst_ratings": [
   {
    "published_at": "2025-02-01T01:13:18Z",
    "type": "sell",
    "text": "Regulators have a keen eye on Apple, and recent regulations have chipped away at parts of Apple\u2019s sticky ecosystem. "
   },
   {
    "published_at": "2025-02-01T01:13:18Z",
    "type": "sell",
    "text": "Apple\u2019s supply chain is highly concentrated in China and Taiwan, which opens up the firm to geopolitical risk. Attempts to diversify into other regions may pressure profitability or efficiency."
   },
   {
    "published_at": "2025-02-01T01:13:18Z",
    "type": "sell",
    "text": "Apple is prone to consumer spending and preferences, which creates cyclicality and opens the firm up to disruption."
   },
   {
    "published_at": "2025-02-01T01:13:18Z",
    "type": "buy",
    "text": "Apple has a stellar balance sheet and sends great amounts of cash flow back to shareholders."
   },
   {
    "published_at": "2025-02-01T01:13:18Z",
    "type": "buy",
    "text": "We like Apple\u2019s move to in-house chip development, which we think has accelerated its product development and increased its differentiation. "
   },
   {
    "published_at": "2025-02-01T01:13:18Z",
    "type": "buy",
    "text": "Apple offers an expansive ecosystem of tightly integrated hardware, software, and services, which locks in customers and generates strong profitability."
   }
  ]
  "is_buy_pdt_restricted": false,
  "is_sell_pdt_restricted": false
 },
 ...
}
```

**Response Format:**
Return your decisions in a JSON array with this structure:
```json
[
  {"symbol": <symbol>, "decision": <decision>, "quantity": <quantity>},
  ...
]
```
- <symbol>: Stock symbol.
- <decision>: One of `buy`, `sell`, or `hold`.
- <quantity>: Recommended transaction quantity.

**Instructions:**
- Provide only the JSON output with no additional text.
- Return an empty array if no actions are necessary.

AI-response example:

[
    {"symbol": "AAPL", "decision": "sell", "quantity": 0.564172},
    {"symbol": "BL", "decision": "hold", "quantity": 0.0},
    {"symbol": "EQIX", "decision": "buy", "quantity": 1.0},
    ...
]

Pattern Day Trading (PDT) Protection

The bot includes built-in protection against Pattern Day Trading (PDT) designation:

• Automatically checks PDT status for each stock
• Prevents day trades when PDT restricted
• Includes PDT information in AI decision-making

For more information about PDT rules, visit: Robinhood Pattern Day Trading

📝 Logging System

The bot logs its activity and trading decisions in a console log.

Example Log Output:

Are you sure you want to run the bot in auto mode? (yes/no): yes
[2024-11-01 11:06:58] [INFO]    Market is open, running trading bot in auto mode...
[2024-11-01 11:06:58] [INFO]    Getting portfolio stocks...
[2024-11-01 11:07:02] [INFO]    Portfolio stocks to proceed: NVDA (1.07%), MSFT (0.12%), SNAP (0.25%), NWSA (13.71%), ...
[2024-11-01 11:07:02] [INFO]    Prepare portfolio stocks for AI analysis...
[2024-11-01 11:07:07] [INFO]    Getting watchlist stocks...
[2024-11-01 11:07:08] [INFO]    Watchlist stocks to proceed: VRT, BB, VRNT, PBI, BMBL, IESC, WB, LITE, ...
[2024-11-01 11:07:08] [INFO]    Prepare watchlist overview for AI analysis...
[2024-11-01 11:07:09] [INFO]    Making AI-based decision...
[2024-11-01 11:07:21] [INFO]    Executing decisions...
[2024-11-01 11:07:21] [INFO]    NVDA > Decision: sell of 2.012
[2024-11-01 11:07:21] [ERROR]   NVDA > Sold 2.012 stocks
[2024-11-01 11:07:21] [INFO]    MSFT > Decision: sell of 1.5422
[2024-11-01 11:07:21] [ERROR]   MSFT > Error selling: Not enough shares to sell.
[2024-11-01 11:07:22] [INFO]    VRT > Decision: buy of 2.09
[2024-11-01 11:07:23] [INFO]    VRT > Bought 2.09 stocks
[2024-11-01 11:07:23] [INFO]    SNAP > Decision: hold of 0.0323
[2024-11-01 11:07:23] [INFO]    VIAV > Decision: hold of 0.0212
[2024-11-01 11:07:24] [INFO]    Stocks sold: NVDA (2.0)
[2024-11-01 11:07:24] [INFO]    Stocks bought: VRT (2.09)
[2024-11-01 11:07:24] [INFO]    Errors: MSFT (Not enough shares to sell.)
[2024-11-01 11:07:24] [INFO]    Waiting for 600 seconds...

🛠️ Setup Guide

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/siropkin/robinhood-ai-trading-bot.git
   cd robinhood-ai-trading-bot
   

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

Configuration

Copy the example config and update it with your details::

cp config.py.example config.py

Fill in config.py with the required parameters:

# 1Password Credentials
OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME = "..."             # 1Password service account name (for Robinhood MFA secret)
OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN = "..."            # 1Password service account token (for Robinhood MFA secret)
OP_VAULT_NAME = "..."                       # 1Password vault name (for Robinhood MFA secret)
OP_ITEM_NAME = "..."                        # 1Password item name (for Robinhood MFA secret)

# Credentials
OPENAI_API_KEY = "..."                      # OpenAI API key
ROBINHOOD_USERNAME = "..."                  # Robinhood username
ROBINHOOD_PASSWORD = "..."                  # Robinhood password
ROBINHOOD_MFA_SECRET = ""                   # Robinhood MFA secret (if enabled)

# Basic config parameters
MODE = "demo"                               # Trading mode (demo, auto, manual)
LOG_LEVEL = "INFO"                          # Log level (DEBUG, INFO)
RUN_INTERVAL_SECONDS = 600                  # Trading interval in seconds (if the market is open)

# Robinhood config parameters
TRADE_EXCEPTIONS = []                       # List of stocks to exclude from trading (e.g. ["AAPL", "TSLA", "AMZN"])
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