IB Portfolio Action Report

Generate a comprehensive portfolio action report that analyzes all positions across Interactive Brokers accounts, fetches earnings dates, and provides traffic-light risk indicators (🔴🟡🟢) for each position.

Prerequisites

User must have TWS or IB Gateway running locally with API enabled:

• Paper trading: port 7497
• Live trading: port 7496

Instructions

Step 1: Gather Data

Note: If uv is not installed or pyproject.toml is not found, replace uv run python with python in all commands below.

uv run python scripts/report.py [--port PORT] [--account ACCOUNT]

The script returns JSON to stdout with analyzed portfolio data including risk levels, earnings dates, technical indicators, and spread groupings.

Step 2: Format Report

Read templates/markdown-template.md for formatting instructions. Generate a markdown report from the JSON data and save to sandbox/.

Filename: ib_portfolio_action_report_{ACCOUNT}_{YYYY-MM-DD}_{HHmm}.md

Step 3: Report Results

Present critical findings to the user: red/yellow items requiring attention, top priority actions, and the saved report path.

Arguments

• --port – IB port (default: 7496 for live trading)
• --account – Specific account ID to analyze (optional, defaults to all accounts)

JSON Output

The script returns structured JSON with:

• generated – Timestamp
• accounts – List of account IDs
• summary – Red/yellow/green counts
• spreads – All positions grouped into spreads with risk level, urgency, and recommendations
• technicals – Technical indicators per symbol (RSI, trend, SMAs, MACD, ADX)
• earnings – Earnings dates per symbol
• prices – Current prices per symbol
• earnings_calendar – Upcoming earnings with account/position info
• account_summary – Position and risk counts per account

Report Sections

1. Critical Summary: Count of positions by risk level (🔴/🟡/🟢)
2. Immediate Action Required: Positions expiring within 2 days
3. Urgent – Expiring Within 1 Week: Short-term positions needing attention
4. Critical Earnings Alert: Positions with earnings this week
5. Earnings Next Week: Upcoming earnings exposure
6. Expiring in 2 Weeks: Medium-term expirations
7. Longer-Dated Positions: Core holdings with spread analysis
8. Top Priority Actions: Numbered action items by urgency
9. Position Size Summary: Account-level breakdown
10. Earnings Calendar: Next 30 days of earnings dates
11. Technical Analysis Summary: RSI, trend, SMAs, MACD, ADX for each underlying

Example Usage

# All accounts on live trading port
uv run python scripts/report.py --port 7496

# Specific account
uv run python scripts/report.py --port 7496 --account U790497

Dependencies

• ib-async
• pandas-ta
• yfinance