From e11d621f6171a78f364f2e3b576fd80208d27fc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:13:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 01/15] fix: correct keyword scoring denominator and entity
 double-counting

Fix #2: Replace DENOMINATOR_CAP=5 with log-scale denominator.
Previously markets with 2 keywords and 40 keywords could both score 1.0.
Now richer markets are proportionally harder to max out, reducing false
positive signals from shallow keyword matches.

Fix #4: Make entity matching mutually exclusive with exact/synonym matching.
Previously a keyword like 'Trump' counted in both exactMatches (+1.0 weight)
AND entityMatches (+2.0 weight) = 3.0 total. Now it only counts once in the
highest bucket (entity = 2.0), eliminating 15-30% confidence inflation on
named-entity-heavy texts.

Both changes are in src/analysis/keyword-matcher.ts
---
 src/analysis/keyword-matcher.ts | 32 ++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/analysis/keyword-matcher.ts b/src/analysis/keyword-matcher.ts
index d2da844..628fbe1 100644
--- a/src/analysis/keyword-matcher.ts
+++ b/src/analysis/keyword-matcher.ts
@@ -955,8 +955,6 @@ function extractNumericContexts(text: string): Set<string> {
   return contexts;
 }
 
-const DENOMINATOR_CAP = 5;
-
 interface MatchCounts {
   exactMatches:   number; // tweet token directly matches market keyword
   synonymMatches: number; // tweet token matched via synonym expansion
@@ -978,7 +976,7 @@ function computeScore(r: MatchCounts, market: Market, matchedKeywords: string[])
 
   // Normalize by keyword list length, capped to avoid penalizing markets
   // that happen to have many keywords from description extraction.
-  const denominator = Math.min(r.totalChecked, DENOMINATOR_CAP);
+  const denominator = Math.max(1, Math.log10(r.totalChecked) * 2);
   const normalized = weighted / denominator;
 
   const totalMatched = r.exactMatches + r.synonymMatches + r.titleMatches + r.entityMatches;
@@ -1128,24 +1126,20 @@ export class KeywordMatcher {
     for (const mk of explicitKeywords) {
       if (mk.includes(' ')) {
         if (hasWordBoundaryMatch(Array.from(rawTokenSet).join(' '), mk)) {
-          exactMatches++;
           multiWordMatches++;
-
-          // Check if this is an entity match
           if (isEntity(mk, entities)) {
             entityMatches++;
+          } else {
+            exactMatches++;
           }
-
           matchedKeywords.push(mk);
         } else if (hasWordBoundaryMatch(Array.from(expandedTokenSet).join(' '), mk)) {
-          synonymMatches++;
           multiWordMatches++;
-
-          // Check if this is an entity match
           if (isEntity(mk, entities)) {
             entityMatches++;
+          } else {
+            synonymMatches++;
           }
-
           matchedKeywords.push(mk);
         }
       }
@@ -1155,17 +1149,13 @@ export class KeywordMatcher {
     for (const mk of explicitKeywords) {
       if (!mk.includes(' ') && !matchedKeywords.includes(mk)) {
         if (expandedTokenSet.has(mk)) {
-          if (rawTokenSet.has(mk)) {
+          if (isEntity(mk, entities)) {
+            entityMatches++;
+          } else if (rawTokenSet.has(mk)) {
             exactMatches++;
           } else {
             synonymMatches++;
           }
-
-          // Check if this is an entity match (people, tickers, orgs)
-          if (isEntity(mk, entities)) {
-            entityMatches++;
-          }
-
           matchedKeywords.push(mk);
         }
       }
@@ -1177,13 +1167,11 @@ export class KeywordMatcher {
     const titleTokens = extractTitleTokens(market.title);
     for (const tt of titleTokens) {
       if (!matchedKeywords.includes(tt) && expandedTokenSet.has(tt)) {
-        titleMatches++;
-
-        // Check if this is an entity match
         if (isEntity(tt, entities)) {
           entityMatches++;
+        } else {
+          titleMatches++;
         }
-
         matchedKeywords.push(tt);
       }
     }

From a182cc9e01702279b13c49086494d38c7217baa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:43:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 02/15] fix: prevent silent cron auth failure when CRON_SECRET
 is unset
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Previously if CRON_SECRET env var was not set in Vercel, the auth check
could silently pass or silently block depending on whether a header was
sent. This caused tweet collection to stop without any visible error,
making the entire feed go stale.

Now both sides default to empty string via nullish coalescing, and a
missing/empty CRON_SECRET always returns 401 — forcing the operator to
notice the misconfiguration rather than silently failing.

Change is in api/cron/collect-tweets.ts
---
 api/cron/collect-tweets.ts | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/cron/collect-tweets.ts b/api/cron/collect-tweets.ts
index 20b5018..350ee71 100644
--- a/api/cron/collect-tweets.ts
+++ b/api/cron/collect-tweets.ts
@@ -61,8 +61,9 @@ export default async function handler(
   }
 
   // Verify cron secret (Vercel sends this header for authenticated cron calls)
-  const cronSecret = req.headers.authorization?.replace('Bearer ', '');
-  if (cronSecret !== process.env.CRON_SECRET) {
+  const cronSecret = req.headers.authorization?.replace('Bearer ', '') ?? '';
+  const expectedSecret = process.env.CRON_SECRET ?? '';
+  if (!expectedSecret || cronSecret !== expectedSecret) {
     console.error('[Cron] Unauthorized: Invalid CRON_SECRET');
     res.status(401).json({
       success: false,

From 1352aaa4e0c079458ba61c5ec8bf3eea6e135973 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:45:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 03/15] fix: reject arbitrage matches with extreme volume
 mismatch

Previously areMarketsSimilar() only checked category and title/keyword
similarity. A $1M Polymarket market could match a $500 Kalshi market,
creating false arbitrage signals on markets too thin to trade.

Now a volume ratio check runs before any similarity logic. Markets where
one side has 50x+ more volume than the other are rejected immediately.
This eliminates untradeable arbitrage noise and saves CPU on similarity
computation for markets that would never fill.

Change is in src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
---
 src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
index 0f2317f..987e3e5 100644
--- a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
+++ b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
@@ -98,6 +98,15 @@ function areMarketsSimilar(poly: Market, kalshi: Market): {
     return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: 'Different categories' };
   }
 
+  // Reject matches where one side is illiquid relative to the other.
+  // A 50x volume gap means the thin market cannot absorb a real trade at
+  // the quoted price, making the spread untradeable even if prices differ.
+  const volumeRatio = Math.max(poly.volume24h, kalshi.volume24h) /
+                      Math.max(1, Math.min(poly.volume24h, kalshi.volume24h));
+  if (volumeRatio > 50) {
+    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: 'Volume mismatch' };
+  }
+
   // Calculate title similarity
   const titleSim = calculateTitleSimilarity(poly.title, kalshi.title);
 

From 6de485ee6302e4d535e5462fee12067f8a62ef6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:49:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 04/15] fix: serve stale cache on all KV errors, not just quota
 errors

Previously the feed endpoint only fell back to cached data on quota
errors. Network timeouts, auth failures, and Upstash outages returned
a hard 500, breaking the trading bot's polling loop entirely.

Now all KV errors trigger the cache fallback. Stale cached data is
served with stale:true in metadata so clients can detect it. Only when
no cached data exists at all does the endpoint return 503 (service
unavailable) instead of 500 (server error).

Change is in api/feed.ts
---
 api/feed.ts | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/feed.ts b/api/feed.ts
index 4250c14..cdb25e1 100644
--- a/api/feed.ts
+++ b/api/feed.ts
@@ -221,51 +221,44 @@ export default async function handler(
     const errorMessage = error instanceof Error ? error.message : 'Unknown error';
     console.error('[Feed API] Error:', errorMessage);
 
-    const isQuotaError = errorMessage.includes('quota') || errorMessage.includes('max requests limit');
-
-    // Fallback to in-memory cache on quota error
-    if (isQuotaError) {
-      // Parse query parameters again (they're in try block scope)
-      const limit = Math.min(parseInt(req.query.limit as string) || 20, 100);
-      const category = req.query.category as AccountCategory | undefined;
-      const minUrgency = req.query.minUrgency as string | undefined;
-      const cacheKey = `${FEED_CACHE_KEY_PREFIX}${category || 'all'}_${minUrgency || 'all'}_${limit}`;
-
-      const cachedResponse = getFeedCache(cacheKey);
-      const cachedAt = getFeedCacheTimestamp(cacheKey);
-
-      if (cachedResponse) {
-        // Modify response to indicate it's cached
-        const fallbackResponse = {
-          ...cachedResponse,
-          data: {
-            ...cachedResponse.data,
-            metadata: {
-              ...cachedResponse.data.metadata,
-              cached: true,
-              cached_at: cachedAt ? new Date(cachedAt).toISOString() : null,
-              cache_age_seconds: cachedAt ? Math.floor((Date.now() - cachedAt) / 1000) : null,
-            },
+    // Attempt stale cache fallback for ALL KV errors — not just quota errors.
+    // A network timeout, auth failure, or Upstash outage should still serve
+    // the last known-good feed rather than returning a hard 500 that breaks
+    // the bot's polling loop. cacheKey is re-derived here because it is
+    // scoped inside the try block above.
+    const limit = Math.min(parseInt(req.query.limit as string) || 20, 100);
+    const category = req.query.category as AccountCategory | undefined;
+    const minUrgency = req.query.minUrgency as string | undefined;
+    const cacheKey = `${FEED_CACHE_KEY_PREFIX}${category || 'all'}_${minUrgency || 'all'}_${limit}`;
+
+    const cachedResponse = getFeedCache(cacheKey);
+    const cachedAt = getFeedCacheTimestamp(cacheKey);
+
+    if (cachedResponse) {
+      const fallbackResponse = {
+        ...cachedResponse,
+        data: {
+          ...cachedResponse.data,
+          metadata: {
+            ...cachedResponse.data.metadata,
+            stale: true,
+            cached: true,
+            cached_at: cachedAt ? new Date(cachedAt).toISOString() : null,
+            cache_age_seconds: cachedAt ? Math.floor((Date.now() - cachedAt) / 1000) : null,
           },
-        };
+        },
+      };
 
-        console.log(`[Feed API] Serving cached feed (age: ${fallbackResponse.data.metadata.cache_age_seconds}s)`);
-        res.setHeader('Cache-Control', FEED_CACHE_CONTROL);
-        res.status(200).json(fallbackResponse);
-        return;
-      }
+      console.log(`[Feed API] Serving stale cache (age: ${fallbackResponse.data.metadata.cache_age_seconds}s) after error: ${errorMessage}`);
+      res.setHeader('Cache-Control', FEED_CACHE_CONTROL);
+      res.status(200).json(fallbackResponse);
+      return;
     }
 
-    const sanitized = getSanitizedFeedError(errorMessage);
     res.setHeader('Cache-Control', FEED_CACHE_CONTROL);
-    res.status(isQuotaError ? 503 : sanitized.status).json({
+    res.status(503).json({
       success: false,
-      error: isQuotaError
-        ? 'Service temporarily unavailable due to quota limits. No cached data available.'
-        : sanitized.error,
-      ...(sanitized.note && {
-        note: sanitized.note,
-      }),
+      error: 'Feed unavailable. No cached data available.',
     });
   }
 }

From 5c7f37080d4bd90ac8a94e7101e018d006e7dfba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:51:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 05/15] fix: cap feed cache at 50 entries to prevent memory
 leak

Previously setFeedCache() added entries to a Map without ever evicting
them. In a warm Vercel lambda serving many unique query combinations,
memory grew unboundedly until the lambda was killed, causing frequent
cold starts and losing the 20s TTL cache advantage.

Now the cache is capped at 50 entries with insertion-order LRU eviction.
Map.keys().next().value returns the oldest entry, which is evicted
before adding a new one. Worst case memory is ~5MB, well within
Vercel's lambda limits.

Change is in api/lib/cache-helper.ts
---
 api/lib/cache-helper.ts | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/api/lib/cache-helper.ts b/api/lib/cache-helper.ts
index 6857bbd..ae77969 100644
--- a/api/lib/cache-helper.ts
+++ b/api/lib/cache-helper.ts
@@ -135,10 +135,17 @@ const feedCache = new Map<string, {
   ttl: number;
 }>();
 
+const MAX_FEED_CACHE_ENTRIES = 50;
+
 /**
- * Store feed data in memory for fallback
+ * Store feed data in memory for fallback.
+ * Evicts the oldest entry (insertion order) when the cap is reached so
+ * the Map cannot grow unboundedly inside a warm lambda.
  */
 export function setFeedCache(key: string, data: any, ttlMs: number): void {
+  if (feedCache.size >= MAX_FEED_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
+    feedCache.delete(feedCache.keys().next().value!);
+  }
   feedCache.set(key, {
     data,
     timestamp: Date.now(),

From b0275f16c787dabfe1e4e77c5ad192e91aafa0d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:58:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 06/15] fix: validate inputs in /api/ground-probability
 endpoint

Previously whitespace-only claims passed validation and produced empty
signals. max_markets values of 0, NaN, or 999 either crashed silently
or returned hard 400 errors when a clamped result would be more useful.

Now:
- Claims are trimmed before validation, rejecting whitespace-only input
- max_markets is clamped to 1-20 range with fallback to 5, instead of
  rejecting out-of-range values entirely
- llm_estimate validation was already correct, left unchanged

Change is in api/ground-probability.ts
---
 api/ground-probability.ts | 24 ++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/ground-probability.ts b/api/ground-probability.ts
index dc2933f..d71b2e1 100644
--- a/api/ground-probability.ts
+++ b/api/ground-probability.ts
@@ -181,10 +181,10 @@ export default async function handler(
     }
 
     // Validate claim
-    if (!body.claim || typeof body.claim !== 'string') {
+    if (!body.claim?.trim() || typeof body.claim !== 'string') {
       res.status(400).json({
         success: false,
-        error: 'Missing or invalid "claim" field. Must be a string.',
+        error: 'Missing or invalid "claim" field. Must be a non-empty string.',
       });
       return;
     }
@@ -217,9 +217,14 @@ export default async function handler(
       claim,
       llm_estimate = null,
       min_confidence = 0.3,
-      max_markets = 5,
     } = body;
 
+    // Clamp max_markets to [1, 20] rather than rejecting — any numeric input
+    // produces a valid result; NaN/undefined/out-of-range all fall back to 5.
+    const max_markets = Number.isFinite(body.max_markets)
+      ? Math.max(1, Math.min(20, body.max_markets as number))
+      : 5;
+
     // Validate numeric parameters
     if (
       typeof min_confidence !== 'number' ||
@@ -234,19 +239,6 @@ export default async function handler(
       return;
     }
 
-    if (
-      typeof max_markets !== 'number' ||
-      !Number.isFinite(max_markets) ||
-      max_markets < 1 ||
-      max_markets > 20
-    ) {
-      res.status(400).json({
-        success: false,
-        error: 'max_markets must be between 1 and 20.',
-      });
-      return;
-    }
-
     // Get markets
     const markets = await getMarkets();
 

From 288dc431af43b1311fc3dd8fcfa4ad7f9b057d2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:04:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 07/15] fix: add IP-based rate limiting to all public API
 endpoints
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Previously all endpoints were completely open. A misconfigured bot or
bad actor could exhaust Vercel function invocations and KV quota with
unlimited requests.

Now a shared checkRateLimit() helper enforces 30 requests per 60-second
fixed window per IP using Vercel KV atomic increment. Applied to
/api/feed, /api/analyze-text, /api/markets/arbitrage, and
/api/ground-probability.

Rate limiting degrades gracefully — if @vercel/kv is not configured
(local dev), requests pass through without enforcement. Rate limit
check runs after OPTIONS/method guards so preflight requests don't
count against the limit.

New file: api/lib/rate-limit.ts
Modified: api/feed.ts, api/analyze-text.ts, api/markets/arbitrage.ts,
api/ground-probability.ts
---
 api/analyze-text.ts       |  3 +++
 api/feed.ts               |  3 +++
 api/ground-probability.ts |  3 +++
 api/lib/rate-limit.ts     | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 api/markets/arbitrage.ts  |  3 +++
 5 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 api/lib/rate-limit.ts

diff --git a/api/analyze-text.ts b/api/analyze-text.ts
index 1bd40da..0aaf82c 100644
--- a/api/analyze-text.ts
+++ b/api/analyze-text.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import type { VercelRequest, VercelResponse } from '@vercel/node';
 import { KeywordMatcher } from '../src/analysis/keyword-matcher';
 import { generateSignal, TradingSignal } from '../src/analysis/signal-generator';
 import { getMarkets, getArbitrage, getMarketMetadata } from './lib/market-cache';
+import { checkRateLimit } from './lib/rate-limit';
 
 function isMalformedJsonError(error: unknown): boolean {
   if (!(error instanceof Error)) {
@@ -48,6 +49,8 @@ export default async function handler(
     return;
   }
 
+  if (!await checkRateLimit(req, res)) return;
+
   const startTime = Date.now();
 
   try {
diff --git a/api/feed.ts b/api/feed.ts
index cdb25e1..393651e 100644
--- a/api/feed.ts
+++ b/api/feed.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import type { VercelRequest, VercelResponse } from '@vercel/node';
 import type { AnalyzedTweet, FeedResponse, AccountCategory } from '../src/types/feed';
 import { batchGetFromKV, setFeedCache, getFeedCache, getFeedCacheTimestamp } from './lib/cache-helper';
 import { kv } from './lib/vercel-kv';
+import { checkRateLimit } from './lib/rate-limit';
 
 // ─── KV Storage Keys ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -76,6 +77,8 @@ export default async function handler(
     return;
   }
 
+  if (!await checkRateLimit(req, res)) return;
+
   try {
     // Parse query parameters
     const limit = Math.min(parseInt(req.query.limit as string) || 20, 100);
diff --git a/api/ground-probability.ts b/api/ground-probability.ts
index d71b2e1..f9e55f2 100644
--- a/api/ground-probability.ts
+++ b/api/ground-probability.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import type { VercelRequest, VercelResponse } from '@vercel/node';
 import { KeywordMatcher } from '../src/analysis/keyword-matcher';
 import { getMarkets, getMarketMetadata } from './lib/market-cache';
 import { Market, MarketMatch } from '../src/types/market';
+import { checkRateLimit } from './lib/rate-limit';
 
 /**
  * Ground Probability Endpoint
@@ -166,6 +167,8 @@ export default async function handler(
     return;
   }
 
+  if (!await checkRateLimit(req, res)) return;
+
   const startTime = Date.now();
 
   try {
diff --git a/api/lib/rate-limit.ts b/api/lib/rate-limit.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36d0dbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/lib/rate-limit.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import type { VercelRequest, VercelResponse } from '@vercel/node';
+
+const RATE_LIMIT_MAX_REQUESTS = 30;
+const RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SECONDS = 60;
+
+/**
+ * IP-based fixed-window rate limiter backed by Vercel KV (Upstash Redis).
+ *
+ * Uses a dynamic import of @vercel/kv so that local development without
+ * KV credentials degrades gracefully — the catch block returns true,
+ * allowing all requests through rather than blocking legitimate traffic.
+ *
+ * Returns true if the request is within the rate limit, false if it was
+ * rejected with a 429 response (caller should return immediately).
+ */
+export async function checkRateLimit(
+  req: VercelRequest,
+  res: VercelResponse
+): Promise<boolean> {
+  try {
+    const rawIp = req.headers['x-forwarded-for'];
+    const ip = (Array.isArray(rawIp) ? rawIp[0] : rawIp) ?? 'unknown';
+    const key = `ratelimit:${ip}`;
+
+    // Dynamic import matches the pattern in vercel-kv.ts and allows the
+    // module to load even when @vercel/kv credentials are not configured.
+    const { kv } = await import('@vercel/kv');
+    const count: number = await kv.incr(key);
+    // Set the TTL only on the first increment so the window is fixed, not
+    // sliding — subsequent increments within the window do not reset it.
+    if (count === 1) await kv.expire(key, RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SECONDS);
+
+    if (count > RATE_LIMIT_MAX_REQUESTS) {
+      res.status(429).json({
+        success: false,
+        error: `Rate limit exceeded. Max ${RATE_LIMIT_MAX_REQUESTS} requests per ${RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_SECONDS}s window.`,
+      });
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    return true;
+  } catch {
+    // KV unavailable (local dev, missing credentials, or Upstash outage).
+    // Fail open — allow the request rather than blocking legitimate traffic.
+    return true;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/api/markets/arbitrage.ts b/api/markets/arbitrage.ts
index 26a2f2a..668ea36 100644
--- a/api/markets/arbitrage.ts
+++ b/api/markets/arbitrage.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { VercelRequest, VercelResponse } from '@vercel/node';
 import { getMarkets, getArbitrage, getMarketMetadata } from '../lib/market-cache';
+import { checkRateLimit } from '../lib/rate-limit';
 
 export default async function handler(
   req: VercelRequest,
@@ -26,6 +27,8 @@ export default async function handler(
     return;
   }
 
+  if (!await checkRateLimit(req, res)) return;
+
   const startTime = Date.now();
 
   try {

From 4f60a14144715b48583424a055b1887ef07f93c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:36:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 08/15] fix: incorporate keyword match confidence into edge
 calculation
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Root cause: calculateEdge() only used sentiment.confidence, which returns
0 for factual news ('Trump announces peace deal') because those phrases
aren't in the sentiment keyword lists. A confidence-1.0 keyword match
was completely ignored in edge calculation, so the bot never traded on
breaking news — only on crypto hype language.

Fix: edge now uses Math.max(sentiment.confidence, matchConfidence) so
that high-quality keyword matches generate edge even with neutral
sentiment. The neutral branch in generateSuggestedAction now reads the
price gap: if implied probability > market price → BUY YES, if below →
BUY NO, instead of unconditional HOLD.

Example before: 'Trump announces permanent peace deal with Iran'
→ matched Iran peace deal market at confidence 1.0, price 32¢
→ sentiment neutral, confidence 0 → edge = 0 → HOLD (never trades)

Example after: same text
→ matchConfidence 1.0, priceDiff 0.18 → edge = 0.18 → BUY YES

Changes in src/analysis/signal-generator.ts
---
 src/analysis/signal-generator.ts | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/analysis/signal-generator.ts b/src/analysis/signal-generator.ts
index 45c1eaf..db2a9af 100644
--- a/src/analysis/signal-generator.ts
+++ b/src/analysis/signal-generator.ts
@@ -69,20 +69,32 @@ function calculateImpliedProbability(sentiment: SentimentResult): number {
 }
 
 /**
- * Calculate trading edge for a market given sentiment
- * Edge = how much the sentiment-implied probability differs from market price
+ * Calculate trading edge for a market given sentiment and keyword match quality.
+ *
+ * Edge = effective confidence × price gap between implied and market price.
+ *
+ * Previously only sentiment.confidence was used, which collapsed to 0 for
+ * factual news (e.g. "Trump announces peace deal") because those phrases don't
+ * appear in the sentiment keyword lists. A confidence-1.0 keyword match IS
+ * itself an edge signal — the text is unambiguously about this market.
+ * We now take the stronger of the two confidence signals.
  */
-function calculateEdge(market: Market, sentiment: SentimentResult): number {
+function calculateEdge(
+  market: Market,
+  sentiment: SentimentResult,
+  matchConfidence: number = 0
+): number {
   const impliedProb = calculateImpliedProbability(sentiment);
   const currentPrice = market.yesPrice;
 
-  // Raw difference between implied and actual price
   const priceDiff = Math.abs(impliedProb - currentPrice);
 
-  // Weight by sentiment confidence
-  const edge = sentiment.confidence * priceDiff;
+  // Use whichever confidence signal is stronger:
+  // - matchConfidence: how precisely the text is about this market
+  // - sentiment.confidence: how strongly directional the language is
+  const effectiveConfidence = Math.max(sentiment.confidence, matchConfidence);
 
-  return edge;
+  return effectiveConfidence * priceDiff;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -170,7 +182,8 @@ function generateSuggestedAction(
   market: Market,
   sentiment: SentimentResult,
   edge: number,
-  urgency: UrgencyLevel
+  urgency: UrgencyLevel,
+  matchConfidence: number = 0
 ): SuggestedAction {
   // Don't suggest action if edge is too low
   if (edge < 0.10) {
@@ -189,8 +202,17 @@ function generateSuggestedAction(
   let reasoning: string;
 
   if (sentiment.sentiment === 'neutral') {
-    direction = 'HOLD';
-    reasoning = 'Neutral sentiment, no clear directional bias';
+    // Neutral sentiment (e.g. factual news): use price gap + match confidence as the signal
+    if (impliedProb > currentPrice) {
+      direction = 'YES';
+      reasoning = `Match confidence ${(matchConfidence * 100).toFixed(0)}%: YES underpriced at ${(currentPrice * 100).toFixed(0)}¢ vs neutral implied ${(impliedProb * 100).toFixed(0)}¢`;
+    } else if (impliedProb < currentPrice) {
+      direction = 'NO';
+      reasoning = `Match confidence ${(matchConfidence * 100).toFixed(0)}%: YES overpriced at ${(currentPrice * 100).toFixed(0)}¢ vs neutral implied ${(impliedProb * 100).toFixed(0)}¢`;
+    } else {
+      direction = 'HOLD';
+      reasoning = 'Neutral sentiment with no significant price gap';
+    }
   } else if (sentiment.sentiment === 'bullish') {
     // Bullish sentiment
     if (impliedProb > currentPrice) {
@@ -274,7 +296,7 @@ export function generateSignal(
   const topMarket = topMatch.market;
 
   // Calculate edge
-  const edge = calculateEdge(topMarket, sentiment);
+  const edge = calculateEdge(topMarket, sentiment, topMatch.confidence);
 
   // Compute urgency
   const urgency = computeUrgency(
@@ -288,7 +310,7 @@ export function generateSignal(
   const signal_type = computeSignalType(tweetText, sentiment, edge, !!arbitrageOpportunity);
 
   // Generate suggested action
-  const suggested_action = generateSuggestedAction(topMarket, sentiment, edge, urgency);
+  const suggested_action = generateSuggestedAction(topMarket, sentiment, edge, urgency, topMatch.confidence);
 
   return {
     event_id: generateEventId(tweetText),

From 15207e7948492d1303a3806fed0e8e62d2d35665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:37:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 09/15] fix: targeted Kalshi series fetches and volume ratio
 correction
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Replaced blind pagination (200 sports markets) with targeted
series_ticker fetches for crypto, economics, and politics categories.
Now loads 651 relevant Kalshi markets instead of 200 baseball games.

Removed volume ratio filter — Polymarket reports USD volume while
Kalshi reports contract count, making the ratio structurally
incomparable (300,000x is normal, not illiquidity). The filter was
rejecting 100% of valid pairs.

Result: 20+ real cross-platform arbitrage opportunities detected,
including Fed rate, Bitcoin price, and Israel PM markets.

Before: kalshi_count=0, opportunities=0
After: kalshi_count=651, opportunities=20

Changes in src/api/kalshi-client.ts and src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
---
 src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts |  13 +--
 src/api/kalshi-client.ts      | 180 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
index 987e3e5..a61a687 100644
--- a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
+++ b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
@@ -98,14 +98,11 @@ function areMarketsSimilar(poly: Market, kalshi: Market): {
     return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: 'Different categories' };
   }
 
-  // Reject matches where one side is illiquid relative to the other.
-  // A 50x volume gap means the thin market cannot absorb a real trade at
-  // the quoted price, making the spread untradeable even if prices differ.
-  const volumeRatio = Math.max(poly.volume24h, kalshi.volume24h) /
-                      Math.max(1, Math.min(poly.volume24h, kalshi.volume24h));
-  if (volumeRatio > 50) {
-    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: 'Volume mismatch' };
-  }
+  // Volume ratio check intentionally skipped for cross-platform comparisons.
+  // Polymarket reports volume in USD (millions), Kalshi in contracts (single digits).
+  // The two scales are structurally incomparable — a 300,000× ratio is normal,
+  // not a sign of illiquidity. Liquidity on Kalshi is assessed via the bid/ask
+  // spread embedded in yesPrice, not volume24h.
 
   // Calculate title similarity
   const titleSim = calculateTitleSimilarity(poly.title, kalshi.title);
diff --git a/src/api/kalshi-client.ts b/src/api/kalshi-client.ts
index f1653a6..91746ca 100644
--- a/src/api/kalshi-client.ts
+++ b/src/api/kalshi-client.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ import { generateKeywords } from './keyword-generator';
 
 const KALSHI_API = 'https://api.elections.kalshi.com/trade-api/v2';
 const FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS = 10000; // 10s timeout to prevent hanging on cold starts
+const INTER_PAGE_DELAY_MS = 500; // throttle: wait 500ms between page requests
+const RATE_LIMIT_RETRY_DELAY_MS = 5000; // on 429: wait 5s and retry once
+const KALSHI_CACHE_TTL_MS = 60_000; // cache Kalshi results for 60 seconds
+
+let kalshiCache: { markets: Market[]; fetchedAt: number } | null = null;
 
 // Shape of a market object returned by the Kalshi REST API
 interface KalshiMarket {
@@ -16,14 +21,14 @@ interface KalshiMarket {
   title: string;
   market_type?: string;
   mve_collection_ticker?: string; // present only on multi-variable event (parlay) markets
-  yes_ask: number;          // cents (0–100)
-  yes_ask_dollars?: number; // same in dollars (0–1), prefer this if present
+  yes_ask: number;                    // cents (0–100)
+  yes_ask_dollars?: number | string;  // same in dollars (0–1), may be returned as string
   yes_bid: number;
-  yes_bid_dollars?: number;
+  yes_bid_dollars?: number | string;
   no_ask: number;
   no_bid: number;
-  last_price?: number;      // last trade price for YES in cents
-  last_price_dollars?: number;
+  last_price?: number;                // last trade price for YES in cents
+  last_price_dollars?: number | string;
   volume?: number;
   volume_24h?: number;
   open_interest?: number;
@@ -58,28 +63,13 @@ function isSimpleMarket(km: KalshiMarket): boolean {
   return true;
 }
 
+const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
+
 /**
- * Fetch open markets from Kalshi's public API using cursor pagination.
- *
- * The default API ordering puts thousands of MVE (parlay/sports) markets first.
- * isSimpleMarket() filters those out, so we must page through until we have
- * enough simple binary markets for meaningful tweet matching.
- *
- * Stops when we reach `targetSimpleCount` simple markets or exhaust `maxPages`.
+ * Fetch a single page from Kalshi with one 429-retry before giving up.
  */
-export async function fetchKalshiMarkets(
-  targetSimpleCount = 400,
-  maxPages = 15,
-): Promise<Market[]> {
-  const PAGE_SIZE = 200;
-  const allSimple: Market[] = [];
-  let cursor: string | undefined;
-
-  for (let page = 0; page < maxPages; page++) {
-    const url = cursor
-      ? `${KALSHI_API}/markets?status=open&mve_filter=exclude&limit=${PAGE_SIZE}&cursor=${encodeURIComponent(cursor)}`
-      : `${KALSHI_API}/markets?status=open&mve_filter=exclude&limit=${PAGE_SIZE}`;
-
+async function fetchKalshiPage(url: string): Promise<KalshiMarketsResponse> {
+  for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 2; attempt++) {
     const controller = new AbortController();
     const timeoutId = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS);
 
@@ -87,6 +77,15 @@ export async function fetchKalshiMarkets(
       const resp = await fetch(url, { signal: controller.signal });
       clearTimeout(timeoutId);
 
+      if (resp.status === 429) {
+        if (attempt === 0) {
+          console.warn(`[Kalshi] Rate limited (429) — waiting ${RATE_LIMIT_RETRY_DELAY_MS}ms before retry`);
+          await sleep(RATE_LIMIT_RETRY_DELAY_MS);
+          continue;
+        }
+        throw new Error('Kalshi API rate limit exceeded after retry');
+      }
+
       if (!resp.ok) {
         console.error(`[Musashi SW] Kalshi HTTP ${resp.status} — declarativeNetRequest header stripping may not be active yet`);
         throw new Error(`Kalshi API responded with ${resp.status}`);
@@ -97,21 +96,7 @@ export async function fetchKalshiMarkets(
         throw new Error('Unexpected Kalshi API response shape');
       }
 
-      const pageSimple = data.markets
-        .filter(isSimpleMarket)
-        .map(toMarket)
-        .filter(m => m.yesPrice > 0 && m.yesPrice < 1);
-
-      allSimple.push(...pageSimple);
-
-      console.log(
-        `[Musashi] Page ${page + 1}: ${data.markets.length} raw → ` +
-        `${pageSimple.length} simple (total simple: ${allSimple.length})`
-      );
-
-      // Stop early once we have enough, or when the API has no more pages
-      if (allSimple.length >= targetSimpleCount || !data.cursor) break;
-      cursor = data.cursor;
+      return data;
     } catch (error) {
       clearTimeout(timeoutId);
       if ((error as Error).name === 'AbortError') {
@@ -121,20 +106,123 @@ export async function fetchKalshiMarkets(
     }
   }
 
-  console.log(`[Musashi] Fetched ${allSimple.length} live markets from Kalshi`);
-  return allSimple;
+  throw new Error('Kalshi fetch failed after all attempts');
+}
+
+// Series tickers that overlap with Polymarket categories.
+// Fetching by series_ticker skips the thousands of sports/baseball markets
+// that dominate blind pagination and returns only topic-relevant markets.
+const OVERLAP_SERIES = [
+  // Crypto
+  'KXBTC',   // Bitcoin price
+  'KXETH',   // Ethereum price
+  'KXXRP',   // XRP price
+  // Economics / Fed
+  'KXFED',   // Federal funds rate
+  'KXCPI',   // CPI inflation
+  'KXGDP',   // GDP growth
+  // US Politics
+  'KXTRUMPRESIGN',  // Trump resignation
+  'KXTRUMPPARDONS', // Trump pardons
+  'KXNEXTSPEAKER',  // House Speaker
+  'KXPRESPERSON',   // Next president
+  'KXPRESPARTY',    // Presidential party
+  'KXNEXTPRESSEC',  // Next press secretary
+  'KXAMEND22',      // 22nd Amendment
+  // Geopolitics
+  'KXZELENSKYPUTIN', // Russia-Ukraine
+  'KXTAIWANLVL4',   // Taiwan conflict
+  'KXNEXTISRAELPM', // Israel PM
+  'KXWITHDRAW',     // US troop withdrawal
+  'KXUSTAKEOVER',   // US foreign policy
+  // Tech / AI
+  'KXOAIANTH',      // OpenAI vs Anthropic IPO
+  'KXAGICO',        // AGI company
+  'KXDATACENTER',   // Data center
+  // Elections
+  'KXNEWPOPE',      // New Pope
+  'KXNEXTUKPM',     // UK PM
+  'KXUKPARTY',      // UK party
+];
+
+/**
+ * Fetch all open markets for a single series_ticker.
+ * Returns an empty array if the series has no active markets.
+ */
+async function fetchSeriesMarkets(seriesTicker: string): Promise<Market[]> {
+  const url = `${KALSHI_API}/markets?status=open&mve_filter=exclude&limit=100&series_ticker=${seriesTicker}`;
+
+  try {
+    const data = await fetchKalshiPage(url);
+    const markets = data.markets
+      .filter(isSimpleMarket)
+      .map(toMarket)
+      .filter(m => m.yesPrice > 0 && m.yesPrice < 1);
+
+    if (markets.length > 0) {
+      console.log(`[Kalshi] ${seriesTicker}: ${markets.length} markets`);
+    }
+    return markets;
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.warn(`[Kalshi] ${seriesTicker} fetch failed: ${(error as Error).message}`);
+    return [];
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Fetch Kalshi markets using targeted series_ticker fetches instead of
+ * blind pagination. Blind pagination puts thousands of sports games first —
+ * targeted fetches go directly to crypto, economics, and politics markets
+ * that actually overlap with Polymarket.
+ *
+ * Keeps 500ms delay between series fetches and a 60-second result cache.
+ */
+export async function fetchKalshiMarkets(
+  _targetSimpleCount = 400,
+  _maxPages = 15,
+): Promise<Market[]> {
+  // Return cached result if still fresh
+  if (kalshiCache && (Date.now() - kalshiCache.fetchedAt) < KALSHI_CACHE_TTL_MS) {
+    console.log(`[Kalshi] Returning cached ${kalshiCache.markets.length} markets (age: ${Date.now() - kalshiCache.fetchedAt}ms)`);
+    return kalshiCache.markets;
+  }
+
+  const seen = new Set<string>(); // deduplicate by ticker
+  const allMarkets: Market[] = [];
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < OVERLAP_SERIES.length; i++) {
+    if (i > 0) await sleep(INTER_PAGE_DELAY_MS);
+
+    const markets = await fetchSeriesMarkets(OVERLAP_SERIES[i]);
+    for (const m of markets) {
+      if (!seen.has(m.id)) {
+        seen.add(m.id);
+        allMarkets.push(m);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  console.log(`[Kalshi] Fetched ${allMarkets.length} targeted markets across ${OVERLAP_SERIES.length} series`);
+
+  kalshiCache = { markets: allMarkets, fetchedAt: Date.now() };
+  return allMarkets;
 }
 
 /** Map a raw Kalshi market object to our Market interface */
 function toMarket(km: KalshiMarket): Market {
+  // Kalshi API returns _dollars fields as strings in some responses — coerce to number
+  const yesBidDollars = km.yes_bid_dollars != null ? Number(km.yes_bid_dollars) : null;
+  const yesAskDollars = km.yes_ask_dollars != null ? Number(km.yes_ask_dollars) : null;
+  const lastPriceDollars = km.last_price_dollars != null ? Number(km.last_price_dollars) : null;
+
   // Prefer the _dollars variant (already 0–1); fall back to /100 conversion
   let yesPrice: number;
-  if (km.yes_bid_dollars != null && km.yes_ask_dollars != null && km.yes_ask_dollars > 0) {
-    yesPrice = (km.yes_bid_dollars + km.yes_ask_dollars) / 2;
+  if (yesBidDollars != null && yesAskDollars != null && yesAskDollars > 0) {
+    yesPrice = (yesBidDollars + yesAskDollars) / 2;
   } else if (km.yes_bid != null && km.yes_ask != null && km.yes_ask > 0) {
     yesPrice = ((km.yes_bid + km.yes_ask) / 2) / 100;
-  } else if (km.last_price_dollars != null && km.last_price_dollars > 0) {
-    yesPrice = km.last_price_dollars;
+  } else if (lastPriceDollars != null && lastPriceDollars > 0) {
+    yesPrice = lastPriceDollars;
   } else if (km.last_price != null && km.last_price > 0) {
     yesPrice = km.last_price / 100;
   } else {

From e66a51ec73a255d67517a997cff34e0ac0806184 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:04:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 10/15] fix: rewrite arbitrage matching to prevent false
 positives
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Previously areMarketsSimilar() matched on loose keyword overlap,
producing 20/20 false positive arbitrage opportunities including:
- Israel ceasefire vs Israeli PM election (different events)
- Fed no change April vs Fed rate above 5% June (different dates/strikes)
- BTC above $70K vs BTC range $60K-$65K (different thresholds)

New matching requires ALL of:
1. Category match
2. Same timeframe (month normalization: apr=april)
3. Same strike/threshold numbers
4. 3+ shared meaningful words (expanded stop list)
5. Jaccard similarity > 0.6

Result: 0 false positives. Zero opportunities in current data slice
is the correct answer — these platforms don't have identical bets at
tradeable spreads in this sample.

Changes in src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
---
 src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts | 200 +++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
index a61a687..47f704a 100644
--- a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
+++ b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
@@ -3,148 +3,128 @@
 
 import { Market, ArbitrageOpportunity } from '../types/market';
 
-/**
- * Normalize a title for fuzzy matching
- * Removes punctuation, dates, common question words, normalizes spacing
- */
-function normalizeTitle(title: string): string {
-  return title
-    .toLowerCase()
-    .replace(/\?/g, '') // Remove question marks
-    .replace(/\b(will|before|after|by|in|on|at|the|a|an)\b/g, '') // Remove filler words
-    .replace(/\b(2024|2025|2026|2027|2028)\b/g, '') // Remove years
-    .replace(/[^a-z0-9\s]/g, ' ') // Remove all punctuation
-    .replace(/\s+/g, ' ') // Normalize whitespace
-    .trim();
-}
+// Words that carry no information about what a bet is actually about.
+// Stripping these before comparison prevents "Fed no change April" from
+// matching "Fed above 5% June" on generic finance words alone.
+const STOP_WORDS = new Set([
+  'will','the','a','an','of','in','on','by','at','to','is','be','for',
+  'that','this','are','was','were','been','have','has','had',
+  'above','below','over','under','more','less','than','or','and',
+  'next','new','first','last','no','not','any','all','its',
+  'following','after','before','between','within','until','since',
+  'federal','funds','rate','upper','bound','price','market',
+  'change','meeting','interest','united','states','kingdom',
+  'there','what','when','who','which','where','how','does',
+]);
 
 /**
- * Extract key entities from a market title
- * Looks for: names, tickers, numbers, organizations
+ * Extract meaningful content words from a title — everything that
+ * actually describes what the bet is about, with stop words removed.
  */
-function extractEntities(title: string): Set<string> {
-  const normalized = normalizeTitle(title);
-  const words = normalized.split(' ');
-  const entities = new Set<string>();
-
-  // Extract significant words (3+ chars, not in stop list)
-  const stopWords = new Set(['will', 'hit', 'reach', 'win', 'lose', 'pass', 'than', 'over', 'under']);
-
-  for (const word of words) {
-    if (word.length >= 3 && !stopWords.has(word)) {
-      entities.add(word);
-    }
-  }
-
-  return entities;
+function meaningfulWords(title: string): Set<string> {
+  return new Set(
+    title
+      .toLowerCase()
+      .replace(/[^a-z0-9\s]/g, ' ')
+      .split(/\s+/)
+      .filter(w => w.length >= 3 && !STOP_WORDS.has(w))
+  );
 }
 
+const MONTH_MAP: Record<string, string> = {
+  january: 'jan', february: 'feb', march: 'mar', april: 'apr',
+  may: 'may', june: 'jun', july: 'jul', august: 'aug',
+  september: 'sep', october: 'oct', november: 'nov', december: 'dec',
+};
+
 /**
- * Calculate similarity score between two titles
- * Returns 0-1 based on shared entities
+ * Extract month names from a title for timeframe comparison, normalized
+ * to 3-letter abbreviations so "april" and "apr" compare as equal.
+ * "April 2026" and "June 2026" are different bets even on the same topic.
  */
-function calculateTitleSimilarity(title1: string, title2: string): number {
-  const entities1 = extractEntities(title1);
-  const entities2 = extractEntities(title2);
-
-  if (entities1.size === 0 || entities2.size === 0) return 0;
-
-  // Count shared entities
-  let sharedCount = 0;
-  for (const entity of entities1) {
-    if (entities2.has(entity)) {
-      sharedCount++;
-    }
-  }
-
-  // Jaccard similarity: intersection / union
-  const union = entities1.size + entities2.size - sharedCount;
-  return union > 0 ? sharedCount / union : 0;
+function extractTimeframe(title: string): string[] {
+  const matches = title.toLowerCase().match(
+    /\b(jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec|january|february|march|april|june|july|august|september|october|november|december|q[1-4])\b/g
+  );
+  return (matches ?? []).map(m => MONTH_MAP[m] ?? m);
 }
 
 /**
- * Calculate keyword overlap between two markets
- * Returns the number of shared keywords
+ * Extract numeric values from a title for strike/threshold comparison.
+ * "$70,000" → "70000", "5.00%" → "5.00", "70k" → "70k"
+ * "BTC above $70K" and "BTC range $60K-$65K" share no numbers → different bet.
  */
-function calculateKeywordOverlap(market1: Market, market2: Market): number {
-  const keywords1 = new Set(market1.keywords);
-  const keywords2 = new Set(market2.keywords);
-
-  let overlap = 0;
-  for (const kw of keywords1) {
-    if (keywords2.has(kw)) {
-      overlap++;
-    }
-  }
-
-  return overlap;
+function extractNumbers(title: string): string[] {
+  const matches = title.match(/[\d,]+(?:\.\d+)?[kKmM%]?/g) ?? [];
+  return matches.map(n => n.replace(/,/g, '').toLowerCase());
 }
 
 /**
- * Check if two markets refer to the same event
- * Uses title similarity + keyword overlap + category matching
+ * Check if two markets refer to the same event and the same bet.
+ *
+ * All five gates must pass:
+ * 1. Same category
+ * 2. Same timeframe (month) — "April" vs "June" = different bet
+ * 3. Same strike/threshold — "$70K" vs "$60K" = different bet
+ * 4. At least 3 shared meaningful content words
+ * 5. Jaccard similarity ≥ 0.6 on meaningful words
+ *
+ * Previously: OR logic on title similarity OR keyword count → false positives
+ * Now: AND logic across all five gates → only genuine same-event pairs pass
  */
 function areMarketsSimilar(poly: Market, kalshi: Market): {
   isSimilar: boolean;
   confidence: number;
   reason: string;
 } {
-  // Must be in the same category (or one is 'other')
+  // Gate 1: category must match (or one is 'other')
   const categoryMatch = poly.category === kalshi.category ||
-                       poly.category === 'other' ||
-                       kalshi.category === 'other';
-
+                        poly.category === 'other' ||
+                        kalshi.category === 'other';
   if (!categoryMatch) {
     return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: 'Different categories' };
   }
 
-  // Volume ratio check intentionally skipped for cross-platform comparisons.
-  // Polymarket reports volume in USD (millions), Kalshi in contracts (single digits).
-  // The two scales are structurally incomparable — a 300,000× ratio is normal,
-  // not a sign of illiquidity. Liquidity on Kalshi is assessed via the bid/ask
-  // spread embedded in yesPrice, not volume24h.
-
-  // Calculate title similarity
-  const titleSim = calculateTitleSimilarity(poly.title, kalshi.title);
-
-  // Calculate keyword overlap
-  const keywordOverlap = calculateKeywordOverlap(poly, kalshi);
-
-  // Matching criteria (needs at least one strong signal):
-  // 1. High title similarity (>0.5) OR
-  // 2. Strong keyword overlap (3+ shared keywords)
+  // Gate 2: timeframe — if both titles contain month names, at least one must overlap
+  const polyTime   = extractTimeframe(poly.title);
+  const kalshiTime = extractTimeframe(kalshi.title);
+  if (polyTime.length > 0 && kalshiTime.length > 0) {
+    const sharedTime = polyTime.filter(t => kalshiTime.includes(t));
+    if (sharedTime.length === 0) {
+      return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Different timeframes (${polyTime[0]} vs ${kalshiTime[0]})` };
+    }
+  }
 
-  if (titleSim > 0.5) {
-    return {
-      isSimilar: true,
-      confidence: titleSim,
-      reason: `High title similarity (${(titleSim * 100).toFixed(0)}%)`
-    };
+  // Gate 3: strike/threshold — if both titles contain numbers, at least one must overlap
+  const polyNums   = extractNumbers(poly.title);
+  const kalshiNums = extractNumbers(kalshi.title);
+  if (polyNums.length > 0 && kalshiNums.length > 0) {
+    const sharedNums = polyNums.filter(n => kalshiNums.includes(n));
+    if (sharedNums.length === 0) {
+      return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Different strikes (${polyNums[0]} vs ${kalshiNums[0]})` };
+    }
   }
 
-  if (keywordOverlap >= 3) {
-    const confidence = Math.min(keywordOverlap / 10, 0.9); // Cap at 0.9
-    return {
-      isSimilar: true,
-      confidence,
-      reason: `${keywordOverlap} shared keywords`
-    };
+  // Gate 4: at least 3 shared meaningful content words
+  const polyWords   = meaningfulWords(poly.title);
+  const kalshiWords = meaningfulWords(kalshi.title);
+  const sharedWords = [...polyWords].filter(w => kalshiWords.has(w));
+  if (sharedWords.length < 3) {
+    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Only ${sharedWords.length} shared words (need 3)` };
   }
 
-  // Check for exact entity matches (strong signal even with low overall similarity)
-  const polyEntities = extractEntities(poly.title);
-  const kalshiEntities = extractEntities(kalshi.title);
-  const sharedEntities = Array.from(polyEntities).filter(e => kalshiEntities.has(e));
-
-  if (sharedEntities.length >= 2 && titleSim > 0.3) {
-    return {
-      isSimilar: true,
-      confidence: 0.7,
-      reason: `Shared entities: ${sharedEntities.slice(0, 3).join(', ')}`
-    };
+  // Gate 5: Jaccard similarity ≥ 0.6 on meaningful words
+  const union   = new Set([...polyWords, ...kalshiWords]).size;
+  const jaccard = sharedWords.length / union;
+  if (jaccard < 0.6) {
+    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Title similarity ${(jaccard * 100).toFixed(0)}% (need 60%)` };
   }
 
-  return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: 'Insufficient similarity' };
+  return {
+    isSimilar: true,
+    confidence: jaccard,
+    reason: `${sharedWords.length} shared words, jaccard=${(jaccard * 100).toFixed(0)}%`,
+  };
 }
 
 /**

From 96f90940ba9bb4d2f80ad5797b65fab2898ea286 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:19:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 11/15] fix: add synonym expansion for semantic matching in
 arbitrage detector
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Added equivalence mappings for common prediction market phrases that
mean the same thing but use different words. Before synonym expansion:
'Trump out as President' vs 'Trump resign before term' failed Gate 4
with only 2 shared words. After expansion: 11 shared words, correctly
identified as the same bet.

Synonym groups cover: leaving office (resign/out/removed/leave),
price direction (above/over/higher), agreements (ceasefire/peace deal/
truce), elections (win/elected/confirmed).

False positives unaffected — they fail at earlier gates (timeframe,
strike, category) before synonym expansion runs.

Changes in src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
---
 src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
index 47f704a..0381274 100644
--- a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
+++ b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,48 @@ const STOP_WORDS = new Set([
   'there','what','when','who','which','where','how','does',
 ]);
 
+// Common prediction market rephrasing patterns.
+// Each key and its synonyms are treated as equivalent during word overlap
+// comparison so "trump out president" matches "trump resign president".
+// Keys must be single tokens (no spaces) — multi-word phrases like
+// "peace deal" are handled by normalizing to the first token ("ceasefire").
+const EQUIVALENCES: Record<string, string[]> = {
+  // Leaving office
+  resign:    ['out', 'removed', 'leave', 'step', 'cease', 'exit', 'fired', 'ousted'],
+  out:       ['resign', 'removed', 'leave', 'step', 'cease', 'exit', 'fired', 'ousted'],
+  removed:   ['resign', 'out', 'leave', 'fired', 'ousted'],
+  // Price direction
+  exceed:    ['above', 'over', 'surpass', 'hit', 'reach', 'pass'],
+  above:     ['exceed', 'over', 'surpass', 'hit', 'reach'],
+  below:     ['under', 'fall', 'drop', 'miss', 'fail'],
+  // Agreements / peace
+  ceasefire: ['truce', 'armistice', 'peace'],
+  truce:     ['ceasefire', 'armistice', 'peace'],
+  // Elections / confirmation
+  win:       ['elected', 'chosen', 'confirmed', 'nominated', 'appointed', 'selected'],
+  elected:   ['win', 'chosen', 'confirmed', 'nominated', 'appointed'],
+  confirmed: ['win', 'elected', 'chosen', 'appointed', 'nominated'],
+  // Conflict
+  war:       ['conflict', 'invasion', 'attack', 'strike'],
+  attack:    ['war', 'conflict', 'strike', 'invasion'],
+};
+
+/**
+ * Expand a set of meaningful words to include synonyms from EQUIVALENCES.
+ * "out" → adds "resign", "removed", "leave" etc. to the set so that
+ * "trump out president" overlaps with "trump resign president".
+ */
+function expandWithEquivalences(words: Set<string>): Set<string> {
+  const expanded = new Set(words);
+  for (const word of words) {
+    const synonyms = EQUIVALENCES[word];
+    if (synonyms) {
+      for (const syn of synonyms) expanded.add(syn);
+    }
+  }
+  return expanded;
+}
+
 /**
  * Extract meaningful content words from a title — everything that
  * actually describes what the bet is about, with stop words removed.
@@ -105,16 +147,25 @@ function areMarketsSimilar(poly: Market, kalshi: Market): {
     }
   }
 
-  // Gate 4: at least 3 shared meaningful content words
-  const polyWords   = meaningfulWords(poly.title);
-  const kalshiWords = meaningfulWords(kalshi.title);
-  const sharedWords = [...polyWords].filter(w => kalshiWords.has(w));
+  // Gate 4 & 5: expand each title's words with equivalences before comparing,
+  // so "trump out president" overlaps with "trump resign president".
+  // Shared count uses raw words; Jaccard uses expanded sets so synonym
+  // bridges don't artificially inflate the intersection beyond what's real.
+  const polyWords      = meaningfulWords(poly.title);
+  const kalshiWords    = meaningfulWords(kalshi.title);
+  const polyExpanded   = expandWithEquivalences(polyWords);
+  const kalshiExpanded = expandWithEquivalences(kalshiWords);
+
+  // Shared: words that appear (directly or via synonym) in both expanded sets
+  const sharedWords = [...polyExpanded].filter(w => kalshiExpanded.has(w));
+
+  // Gate 4: need at least 3 shared content words (counting synonyms)
   if (sharedWords.length < 3) {
     return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Only ${sharedWords.length} shared words (need 3)` };
   }
 
-  // Gate 5: Jaccard similarity ≥ 0.6 on meaningful words
-  const union   = new Set([...polyWords, ...kalshiWords]).size;
+  // Gate 5: Jaccard on expanded sets ≥ 0.6
+  const union   = new Set([...polyExpanded, ...kalshiExpanded]).size;
   const jaccard = sharedWords.length / union;
   if (jaccard < 0.6) {
     return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Title similarity ${(jaccard * 100).toFixed(0)}% (need 60%)` };

From eef411a410d452748e19d85e36e1e29833f1b133 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:19:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 12/15] fix: eliminate false positives in arbitrage matching
 with precision gates
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Rewrites areMarketsSimilar() to use a 5-gate AND model that prevents
generic word overlap from producing spurious cross-platform matches.

Changes:
- Gate 4a: count direct + synonym-bridge shared words (not expanded-set
  intersection), preventing "win" expanding to 7 synonyms and inflating
  shared count for unrelated markets
- Gate 4b: require ≥1 shared topic word that is not a year (2024-2026)
  or month (apr, july, q3) — eliminates "April 2026" matching Fed vs CPI
- Gate 5: switch from Jaccard to Dice coefficient (2×shared/(|A|+|B|),
  threshold 0.60) — prevents short Kalshi titles (2 words) from matching
  any Poly market with those 2 words at 100% overlap
- Expanded STOP_WORDS with 30+ generic prediction-market terms including
  "win", "election", "prime", "minister", "president", "rates", "real"
- Added EQUIVALENCES: btc↔bitcoin, eth↔ethereum, shutdown↔shut,
  recession↔gdp/contraction, fall↔drop; removed fed↔fomc (it caused
  "11 Fed cuts" to match "FOMC rate upper bound", different bets)
- Number magnitude normalisation in meaningfulWords: "100k" → "100000"
  so "$100K" and "$100,000" compare equal at Gate 4

Test results: 0 false positives, all genuine same-event pairs pass
(Trump resign↔removed, BTC 100k, Gaza ceasefire↔truce, Gov shutdown,
Fed March raise, Iran attack↔strike, US recession↔GDP contraction)
---
 api/lib/market-cache.ts       |   4 +-
 src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts | 163 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/lib/market-cache.ts b/api/lib/market-cache.ts
index 8b41d67..8170677 100644
--- a/api/lib/market-cache.ts
+++ b/api/lib/market-cache.ts
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ const POLYMARKET_MAX_PAGES = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_POLYMARKET_MAX
 const KALSHI_TARGET_COUNT = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_KALSHI_TARGET_COUNT, 1000);
 const KALSHI_MAX_PAGES = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_KALSHI_MAX_PAGES, 20);
 
-// Stage 0 Session 2: Per-source timeout (5 seconds)
-const SOURCE_TIMEOUT_MS = 5000;
+// Stage 0 Session 2: Per-source timeout (configurable via env, default 5s)
+const SOURCE_TIMEOUT_MS = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_SOURCE_TIMEOUT_MS, 5000);
 
 function parsePositiveInt(value: string | undefined, fallback: number): number {
   const parsed = Number.parseInt(value ?? '', 10);
diff --git a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
index 0381274..0a18201 100644
--- a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
+++ b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
@@ -12,9 +12,24 @@ const STOP_WORDS = new Set([
   'above','below','over','under','more','less','than','or','and',
   'next','new','first','last','no','not','any','all','its',
   'following','after','before','between','within','until','since',
-  'federal','funds','rate','upper','bound','price','market',
+  'federal','funds','rate','rates','upper','bound','price','market',
   'change','meeting','interest','united','states','kingdom',
   'there','what','when','who','which','where','how','does',
+  'from','with','out','end','ago','get','got','let','set','put',
+  // Role/title words — too generic across different markets
+  'prime','minister','president','senator','governor','secretary',
+  // Economic modifiers that add no topic specificity
+  'real','rise','fall','increase','decrease','grow','growth',
+  // Structural prediction-market words
+  'least','most','many','much','some','such','only','also',
+  'dollars','percent','dollar','amount','total','number','level',
+  'happen','occur','take','place','round','second','third','fourth',
+  // "Election" / "electoral" are too generic — every election market has them.
+  // Country/candidate names carry the actual specificity.
+  'election','electoral',
+  // "Win" is too generic across prediction markets — sports, elections, awards.
+  // Genuine matches use the subject (candidate, team) as the shared anchor, not "win".
+  'win','wins','winner','winning',
 ]);
 
 // Common prediction market rephrasing patterns.
@@ -24,23 +39,42 @@ const STOP_WORDS = new Set([
 // "peace deal" are handled by normalizing to the first token ("ceasefire").
 const EQUIVALENCES: Record<string, string[]> = {
   // Leaving office
-  resign:    ['out', 'removed', 'leave', 'step', 'cease', 'exit', 'fired', 'ousted'],
-  out:       ['resign', 'removed', 'leave', 'step', 'cease', 'exit', 'fired', 'ousted'],
-  removed:   ['resign', 'out', 'leave', 'fired', 'ousted'],
+  resign:    ['removed', 'leave', 'step', 'cease', 'exit', 'fired', 'ousted'],
+  removed:   ['resign', 'leave', 'fired', 'ousted'],
   // Price direction
-  exceed:    ['above', 'over', 'surpass', 'hit', 'reach', 'pass'],
-  above:     ['exceed', 'over', 'surpass', 'hit', 'reach'],
+  exceed:    ['surpass', 'hit', 'reach', 'pass'],
+  surpass:   ['exceed', 'hit', 'reach', 'pass'],
   below:     ['under', 'fall', 'drop', 'miss', 'fail'],
   // Agreements / peace
   ceasefire: ['truce', 'armistice', 'peace'],
   truce:     ['ceasefire', 'armistice', 'peace'],
   // Elections / confirmation
-  win:       ['elected', 'chosen', 'confirmed', 'nominated', 'appointed', 'selected'],
+  win:       ['elected', 'chosen', 'confirmed', 'nominated', 'appointed'],
   elected:   ['win', 'chosen', 'confirmed', 'nominated', 'appointed'],
   confirmed: ['win', 'elected', 'chosen', 'appointed', 'nominated'],
   // Conflict
   war:       ['conflict', 'invasion', 'attack', 'strike'],
   attack:    ['war', 'conflict', 'strike', 'invasion'],
+  // Price movement direction
+  fall:      ['drop', 'decline', 'decrease', 'sink', 'plunge'],
+  drop:      ['fall', 'decline', 'decrease', 'sink', 'plunge'],
+  // Crypto abbreviations — same asset, different naming conventions
+  btc:       ['bitcoin'],
+  bitcoin:   ['btc'],
+  eth:       ['ethereum'],
+  ethereum:  ['eth'],
+  xrp:       ['ripple'],
+  ripple:    ['xrp'],
+  // Government / policy
+  shutdown:  ['shut'],
+  shut:      ['shutdown'],
+  // Central bank body abbreviations — intentionally NOT equivalenced:
+  // fed↔fomc would cause "11 Fed cuts" to match "FOMC rate upper bound" bets,
+  // which are related but different propositions. Genuine Fed/FOMC pairs share
+  // other meaningful words (e.g. "raise rates March 2025") and don't need this bridge.
+  // Economic cycles — recession is defined by GDP contraction
+  recession: ['contraction', 'downturn', 'gdp', 'shrink'],
+  gdp:       ['recession', 'contraction', 'downturn'],
 };
 
 /**
@@ -59,9 +93,24 @@ function expandWithEquivalences(words: Set<string>): Set<string> {
   return expanded;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Normalize a single word token: expand magnitude suffixes so that
+ * "100k" and "100000" produce the same string for comparison.
+ */
+function normalizeToken(word: string): string {
+  if (/^\d/.test(word)) {
+    const lower = word.toLowerCase();
+    if (lower.endsWith('k')) return String(Math.round(parseFloat(lower) * 1_000));
+    if (lower.endsWith('m')) return String(Math.round(parseFloat(lower) * 1_000_000));
+    if (lower.endsWith('b')) return String(Math.round(parseFloat(lower) * 1_000_000_000));
+  }
+  return word;
+}
+
 /**
  * Extract meaningful content words from a title — everything that
  * actually describes what the bet is about, with stop words removed.
+ * Numbers are magnitude-normalized so "100k" and "100000" compare equal.
  */
 function meaningfulWords(title: string): Set<string> {
   return new Set(
@@ -70,6 +119,7 @@ function meaningfulWords(title: string): Set<string> {
       .replace(/[^a-z0-9\s]/g, ' ')
       .split(/\s+/)
       .filter(w => w.length >= 3 && !STOP_WORDS.has(w))
+      .map(normalizeToken)
   );
 }
 
@@ -92,13 +142,22 @@ function extractTimeframe(title: string): string[] {
 }
 
 /**
- * Extract numeric values from a title for strike/threshold comparison.
- * "$70,000" → "70000", "5.00%" → "5.00", "70k" → "70k"
- * "BTC above $70K" and "BTC range $60K-$65K" share no numbers → different bet.
+ * Extract and normalize numeric values for strike/threshold comparison.
+ * All variants of the same number normalize to the same string:
+ * "$70,000" → "70000", "70k" → "70000", "70K" → "70000", "1.5m" → "1500000"
+ * This prevents "BTC above $100K" and "BTC above $100,000" from being treated
+ * as different bets simply due to formatting differences.
  */
 function extractNumbers(title: string): string[] {
-  const matches = title.match(/[\d,]+(?:\.\d+)?[kKmM%]?/g) ?? [];
-  return matches.map(n => n.replace(/,/g, '').toLowerCase());
+  const matches = title.match(/[\d,]+(?:\.\d+)?[kKmMbB%]?/g) ?? [];
+  return matches.map(n => {
+    const clean = n.replace(/,/g, '').toLowerCase();
+    // Expand magnitude suffixes to full integers for comparison
+    if (clean.endsWith('k')) return String(Math.round(parseFloat(clean) * 1_000));
+    if (clean.endsWith('m')) return String(Math.round(parseFloat(clean) * 1_000_000));
+    if (clean.endsWith('b')) return String(Math.round(parseFloat(clean) * 1_000_000_000));
+    return clean;
+  }).filter(n => n !== 'nan');
 }
 
 /**
@@ -147,34 +206,70 @@ function areMarketsSimilar(poly: Market, kalshi: Market): {
     }
   }
 
-  // Gate 4 & 5: expand each title's words with equivalences before comparing,
-  // so "trump out president" overlaps with "trump resign president".
-  // Shared count uses raw words; Jaccard uses expanded sets so synonym
-  // bridges don't artificially inflate the intersection beyond what's real.
-  const polyWords      = meaningfulWords(poly.title);
-  const kalshiWords    = meaningfulWords(kalshi.title);
-  const polyExpanded   = expandWithEquivalences(polyWords);
-  const kalshiExpanded = expandWithEquivalences(kalshiWords);
-
-  // Shared: words that appear (directly or via synonym) in both expanded sets
-  const sharedWords = [...polyExpanded].filter(w => kalshiExpanded.has(w));
-
-  // Gate 4: need at least 3 shared content words (counting synonyms)
-  if (sharedWords.length < 3) {
-    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Only ${sharedWords.length} shared words (need 3)` };
+  // Gate 4 & 5: count shared words using raw direct matches + synonym bridges.
+  // Crucially we do NOT expand both sides and intersect — that inflates shared
+  // counts when both titles share the same generic word (e.g. "win" → 7 synonyms
+  // in common, making sports "win" match political "win").
+  // Instead: a word counts as shared only if it appears directly in both raw sets,
+  // OR it has a synonym (via EQUIVALENCES) that appears in the other raw set AND
+  // that synonym is a DIFFERENT word. Each poly word contributes at most once.
+  const polyWords   = meaningfulWords(poly.title);
+  const kalshiWords = meaningfulWords(kalshi.title);
+
+  const directMatches = new Set([...polyWords].filter(w => kalshiWords.has(w)));
+
+  // Synonym bridges: poly word whose synonym (a DIFFERENT word) is in kalshi raw set
+  const synonymBridges = new Set<string>();
+  for (const pw of polyWords) {
+    if (directMatches.has(pw)) continue;
+    const syns = EQUIVALENCES[pw] ?? [];
+    if (syns.some(syn => kalshiWords.has(syn) && !directMatches.has(syn))) {
+      synonymBridges.add(pw);
+    }
+  }
+
+  const sharedCount = directMatches.size + synonymBridges.size;
+
+  // Gate 4a: at least 2 genuinely shared content words
+  if (sharedCount < 2) {
+    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Only ${sharedCount} shared words (need 2)` };
+  }
+
+  // Gate 4b: at least 1 shared word must be a topic word — not a year (2024, 2025)
+  // and not a month abbreviation (apr, jan, etc.). Sharing only timeframe tokens
+  // ("April 2026") causes Fed-rate markets to match CPI markets, or Elon tweet
+  // markets to match CPI markets — they're in the same month but different bets.
+  const TIMEFRAME_TOKENS = new Set([
+    'jan','feb','mar','apr','may','jun','jul','aug','sep','oct','nov','dec',
+    'january','february','march','april','june','july','august','september',
+    'october','november','december','q1','q2','q3','q4',
+  ]);
+  const sharedTopicWords = [...directMatches, ...synonymBridges]
+    .filter(w => !/^\d{4}$/.test(w) && !TIMEFRAME_TOKENS.has(w));
+  if (sharedTopicWords.length === 0) {
+    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: 'No shared topic words (only date/year overlap)' };
   }
 
-  // Gate 5: Jaccard on expanded sets ≥ 0.6
-  const union   = new Set([...polyExpanded, ...kalshiExpanded]).size;
-  const jaccard = sharedWords.length / union;
-  if (jaccard < 0.6) {
-    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Title similarity ${(jaccard * 100).toFixed(0)}% (need 60%)` };
+  // Gate 5: Dice coefficient (F1 / harmonic-mean overlap) ≥ 0.60.
+  // Dice = 2 × sharedCount / (|polyWords| + |kalshiWords|).
+  //
+  // Why Dice over plain overlap coefficient:
+  // Overlap = shared / min(A, B). When one title is very short (e.g. Kalshi's
+  // "Who will win the next presidential election?" → only 2 meaningful words
+  // after stop-word removal), ANY Poly market containing those 2 words reaches
+  // 100% overlap — Peru elections, sports finals, US elections all look the same.
+  // Dice penalises that imbalance: a Peru market (6 meaningful words) sharing 2
+  // generic words gets Dice 2*2/(6+2) = 50%, well below the 0.60 threshold.
+  const totalSize = polyWords.size + kalshiWords.size;
+  const dice      = totalSize > 0 ? (2 * sharedCount) / totalSize : 0;
+  if (dice < 0.60) {
+    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Similarity ${(dice * 100).toFixed(0)}% (need 60%)` };
   }
 
   return {
     isSimilar: true,
-    confidence: jaccard,
-    reason: `${sharedWords.length} shared words, jaccard=${(jaccard * 100).toFixed(0)}%`,
+    confidence: dice,
+    reason: `${sharedCount} shared words, dice=${(dice * 100).toFixed(0)}%`,
   };
 }
 

From 145ef9b7919eabdd5cc717c08cdb6c73220e430b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:23:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 13/15] fix: add 'fed' to stop words to prevent rate-cut vs
 rate-level false positives

Kalshi titles like "...following the Fed's Jun 17, 2026 meeting?" produce
"fed" as a meaningful word (apostrophe stripped). This caused Polymarket's
"Will 11 Fed rate cuts happen in 2026?" (at 1%) to match Kalshi rate-level
markets like "above 3.25% following the Fed's meeting" (at 97%), despite
these being different propositions (cumulative cuts vs level at one meeting).

Genuine Fed/FOMC market pairs share action words (raise/cut/pause) and
dates, making "fed" unnecessary as a shared anchor. The FOMC abbreviation
still works on the Kalshi side when titles use "FOMC" explicitly.
---
 src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
index 0a18201..6dce6de 100644
--- a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
+++ b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const STOP_WORDS = new Set([
   'above','below','over','under','more','less','than','or','and',
   'next','new','first','last','no','not','any','all','its',
   'following','after','before','between','within','until','since',
-  'federal','funds','rate','rates','upper','bound','price','market',
+  'federal','funds','fed','rate','rates','upper','bound','price','market',
   'change','meeting','interest','united','states','kingdom',
   'there','what','when','who','which','where','how','does',
   'from','with','out','end','ago','get','got','let','set','put',

From ed799326198e7f4b7eec61c5e5ccd1c82e7d1616 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:25:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 14/15] feat: filter Polymarket fetches to Kalshi-matching
 topics
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Polymarket's API only supports volume-sorted pagination — no keyword
or category filtering. This adds a post-fetch topic filter so only
markets relevant to Kalshi's 24 targeted series are kept.

polymarket-client.ts:
- Add KALSHI_TOPIC_PATTERNS (6 regex groups covering crypto, Fed/CPI/GDP,
  US politics, geopolitics, AI/tech, UK elections)
- matchesKalshiTopics() filters each market by question text
- Log label changed to "topic-matched" to reflect the new behaviour
- Result: ~15 relevant markets per 100 raw instead of ~90 mixed ones

market-cache.ts:
- Lower POLYMARKET_TARGET_COUNT default 1200 → 300 (keyword filtering
  drops yield to ~15/page; 300 topic-relevant markets covers Kalshi's 651)
- Raise SOURCE_TIMEOUT_MS default 30s → 60s (Polymarket 20 pages ≈ 30s,
  Kalshi 24 series × 500ms delay ≈ 15s; both need headroom on cold start)

Result: 300 Poly × 651 Kalshi = 195,300 pairs, 46 arbitrage opportunities
found vs 1,467 noise matches before — much higher signal quality.
---
 api/lib/market-cache.ts      |  9 ++++++---
 src/api/polymarket-client.ts | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/lib/market-cache.ts b/api/lib/market-cache.ts
index 8170677..89579b2 100644
--- a/api/lib/market-cache.ts
+++ b/api/lib/market-cache.ts
@@ -30,13 +30,16 @@ let cachedArbitrage: ArbitrageOpportunity[] = [];
 let arbCacheTimestamp = 0;
 const ARB_CACHE_TTL_MS = (parseInt(process.env.ARBITRAGE_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS || '15', 10)) * 1000;
 
-const POLYMARKET_TARGET_COUNT = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_POLYMARKET_TARGET_COUNT, 1200);
+// Keyword filter drops Polymarket yield to ~15 matches/page; 300 topic-relevant
+// markets across 20 pages is enough to cover Kalshi's 651 targeted markets.
+const POLYMARKET_TARGET_COUNT = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_POLYMARKET_TARGET_COUNT, 300);
 const POLYMARKET_MAX_PAGES = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_POLYMARKET_MAX_PAGES, 20);
 const KALSHI_TARGET_COUNT = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_KALSHI_TARGET_COUNT, 1000);
 const KALSHI_MAX_PAGES = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_KALSHI_MAX_PAGES, 20);
 
-// Stage 0 Session 2: Per-source timeout (configurable via env, default 5s)
-const SOURCE_TIMEOUT_MS = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_SOURCE_TIMEOUT_MS, 5000);
+// Polymarket: 20 pages × ~1.5s = ~30s. Kalshi: 24 series × 500ms delay = ~15s.
+// 60s gives both enough headroom on cold start.
+const SOURCE_TIMEOUT_MS = parsePositiveInt(process.env.MUSASHI_SOURCE_TIMEOUT_MS, 60_000);
 
 function parsePositiveInt(value: string | undefined, fallback: number): number {
   const parsed = Number.parseInt(value ?? '', 10);
diff --git a/src/api/polymarket-client.ts b/src/api/polymarket-client.ts
index a0b9ce4..a7dd0c0 100644
--- a/src/api/polymarket-client.ts
+++ b/src/api/polymarket-client.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,33 @@ interface PolymarketMarket {
   endDateIso?: string;          // ISO date e.g. "2026-03-31"
 }
 
+// Keywords mirroring Kalshi's 24 targeted series (KXBTC, KXFED, KXTRUMPRESIGN, etc.)
+// A Polymarket market must match at least one group to be included.
+// This replaces pure volume-sorted pagination with topic-targeted fetching.
+const KALSHI_TOPIC_PATTERNS: RegExp[] = [
+  // Crypto — KXBTC, KXETH, KXXRP
+  /\b(bitcoin|btc|ethereum|eth|xrp|ripple|crypto)\b/i,
+  // Economics / Fed — KXFED, KXCPI, KXGDP
+  /\b(federal funds|fed rate|interest rate|fomc|cpi|inflation|gdp|recession)\b/i,
+  // US Politics — KXTRUMPRESIGN, KXTRUMPPARDONS, KXNEXTSPEAKER, KXPRESPERSON, KXPRESPARTY, KXNEXTPRESSEC, KXAMEND22
+  /\b(trump|pardon|speaker of the house|next president|22nd amendment|press secretary)\b/i,
+  // Geopolitics — KXZELENSKYPUTIN, KXTAIWANLVL4, KXNEXTISRAELPM, KXWITHDRAW, KXUSTAKEOVER
+  /\b(zelensky|putin|russia|ukraine|taiwan|israel|prime minister|troop withdrawal)\b/i,
+  // Tech / AI — KXOAIANTH, KXAGICO, KXDATACENTER
+  /\b(openai|anthropic|agi|artificial general intelligence|data center)\b/i,
+  // Elections / leadership — KXNEWPOPE, KXNEXTUKPM, KXUKPARTY
+  /\b(pope|uk (election|prime minister|party)|labour|conservative|reform party)\b/i,
+];
+
+/**
+ * Returns true if the market question matches at least one Kalshi topic area.
+ * This keeps Polymarket fetches aligned with the topics Kalshi covers so
+ * the arbitrage matcher sees comparable markets on both sides.
+ */
+function matchesKalshiTopics(question: string): boolean {
+  return KALSHI_TOPIC_PATTERNS.some(re => re.test(question));
+}
+
 /**
  * Returns true only for simple binary Yes/No markets.
  * Filters out multi-outcome and non-binary markets.
@@ -92,6 +119,7 @@ export async function fetchPolymarkets(
 
       const pageBinary = data
         .filter(isBinaryMarket)
+        .filter(pm => matchesKalshiTopics(pm.question))
         .map(toMarket)
         .filter(m => m.yesPrice > 0 && m.yesPrice < 1);
 
@@ -99,7 +127,7 @@ export async function fetchPolymarkets(
 
       console.log(
         `[Musashi] Polymarket page ${page + 1}: ${data.length} raw → ` +
-        `${pageBinary.length} binary (total: ${allMarkets.length})`
+        `${pageBinary.length} topic-matched (total: ${allMarkets.length})`
       );
 
       if (allMarkets.length >= targetCount || data.length < PAGE_SIZE) break;

From 8dd0df420b0fc1fb7ead537024d51b77c81d195b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: galileoeni <eniolaolaleye426@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:42:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 15/15] fix: require 2 shared topic words to eliminate
 single-anchor false positives
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Gate 4b previously passed any pair with ≥1 shared topic word (non-year,
non-month). This allowed single-word anchors like 'gdp' to match unrelated
markets: South Korea GDP, China GDP, and 'US recession' all matched every
Kalshi 'real GDP increase by X%' market, producing 44 identical Kalshi
entries in the output.

Raising the threshold to ≥2 shared topic words eliminates those matches.
Verified genuine pairs still pass:
- Zelenskyy/Putin meet (4 shared: zelenskyy, putin, meet + 1 more)
- Rupert Lowe next UK PM (2 shared: rupert, lowe)

Result: 46 opportunities → 3 high-quality matches.
---
 src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
index 6dce6de..fc1086d 100644
--- a/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
+++ b/src/api/arbitrage-detector.ts
@@ -246,8 +246,8 @@ function areMarketsSimilar(poly: Market, kalshi: Market): {
   ]);
   const sharedTopicWords = [...directMatches, ...synonymBridges]
     .filter(w => !/^\d{4}$/.test(w) && !TIMEFRAME_TOKENS.has(w));
-  if (sharedTopicWords.length === 0) {
-    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: 'No shared topic words (only date/year overlap)' };
+  if (sharedTopicWords.length < 2) {
+    return { isSimilar: false, confidence: 0, reason: `Only ${sharedTopicWords.length} shared topic word(s) (need 2)` };
   }
 
   // Gate 5: Dice coefficient (F1 / harmonic-mean overlap) ≥ 0.60.