Portfolio Mark

portfolio-mark

You hand over a position CSV. The skill marks every line to current fair value, computes book value and (if cost basis is in the input) unrealized P&L, and flags any mark where confidence is medium or low so the operator can override before the number lands in a report.

This is the "what is this book worth right now" workflow. Pricing services do it; this skill does the same thing without the seat fee and with the per-position confidence rating that internal pricing desks usually leave implicit.

When to invoke

• Operator says "mark this book" or "what's this portfolio worth right now" or hands over a CSV asking for current value
• A risk team needs intraday marks for a Greek aggregation or var run
• An ops team is generating an EOD statement and wants to flag thin names before publishing the NAV
• A PM is wiring up a live dashboard and needs a streaming mark per symbol

Modes

Delayed mode (default)

REST snapshot per position. Walks the 4-step fallback chain (snapshot.ticker.lastTrade.p → min.c → day.c → prevDay.c) via lib/quant_garage/snapshot.py::resolve_price and emits the timestamp of whichever field won. Works on any paid Stocks plan; on Free Basic the rate limit caps batch size to ~5 positions per minute but the methodology is identical.

Use this for end-of-day reporting, weekly statements, and any context where a 15-minute lag on the underlying is acceptable. Cheaper operationally; no socket to manage; one report per run.

Live mode

WebSocket subscribes to one or more channels for every position. Listens for --listen seconds (default 30), accumulates the most recent mark per symbol, and emits the same marked-positions table plus an optional "live tape" trailer showing the last few ticks per symbol.

Live mode reads from the business cluster (wss://business.polygon.io/stocks) and prefers, in order:

1. T.{ticker} (tick trades; requires Stocks Advanced + signed real-time agreement)
2. AM.{ticker} (per-minute aggregates; available on Stocks Business without the real-time addendum)
3. FMV.{ticker} (Business-tier Fair Market Value stream)

If T.{ticker} returns not authorized, the skill resubscribes to AM.{ticker} automatically and notes the downgrade in the rendered output. Quote channel Q.{ticker} is subscribed in parallel so bid/ask flow from the stream without a REST round-trip. See references/live-vs-delayed.md for the tier matrix and which channels each plan actually delivers (the published Massive docs and the lived entitlement behavior diverge, see notes there).

What you need

• A position CSV with at minimum ticker,shares. Optional columns: cost_basis (per-share, for P&L), as_of_date (informational).
• MASSIVE_API_KEY exported. Delayed mode runs on Stocks Starter or higher (Stocks Basic works with rate-limit pain). Live mode needs Stocks Advanced for T.{ticker} ticks, or Stocks Business for the AM.{ticker} and FMV.{ticker} fallback channels.

What you get back

Two output layers from one analysis.

Layer 1: canonical JSON matching output-schema.json. Per-position fields: mark, mark_source (which step in the fallback chain won), confidence (high/medium/low), as_of timestamp, bid/ask if available, spread in basis points, and (if cost basis given) unrealized P&L. Per-flagged-mark fields: reason codes, detail text, source endpoint. UIs and downstream agents consume this.

Layer 2: rendered hybrid output. A marked-positions table at the top, a FLAGGED exception block at the bottom for any mark that wasn't high-confidence. Optional "Live tape" trailer in live mode. See references/rendering.md for the format rules. Claude Code users read this.

How it works (delayed mode)

1. Read every row of the CSV. Group by symbol; warn on duplicates but keep them separate (different lots).
2. For each unique symbol, GET the snapshot endpoint. Walk the fallback chain per references/snapshot-fallback-chain.md and record which step produced the mark.
3. Compute confidence per references/confidence-scoring.md: recency of the chosen mark, bid-ask spread in bps, and average daily volume. High = top-decile ADV and last trade within 60s and spread <10bps; Medium = mid ADV and trade within 5min and spread 10-50bps; Low = anything thinner or staler.
4. Compute book value (sum of shares * mark). If cost basis is in the input, compute unrealized P&L per references/book-value-and-pnl.md.
5. Emit JSON and rendered markdown. Anything below high confidence appears in the FLAGGED block.

How it works (live mode)

1. Open one WebSocket to the business cluster.
2. Auth, then subscribe to the preferred channel for every symbol in the book. If T.{ticker} returns not authorized, resubscribe to AM.{ticker} and note the downgrade.
3. Listen for --listen seconds. Maintain per-symbol state: last mark, last update timestamp, trade count, recent ticks for the tape. See references/websocket-mark-updates.md for the message-handling pattern (move work off the receive thread, resubscribe on reconnect, backpressure-aware drain loop).
4. On disconnect within the listen window, resubscribe to the full set per the massive-websockets foundation. Log the gap and continue.
5. At the end of the window, emit the same marked-positions table. For symbols that received zero ticks during the window, fall back to a one-shot REST snapshot (with mark_source: "snapshot.*" so the operator sees which symbols never streamed).

Foundations used

• massive-api-patterns for REST auth, rate limiting, and the snapshot fallback chain
• massive-websockets for the live socket flow (auth, subscribe, reconnect, backpressure)

This is the first skill in the suite that exercises the massive-websockets foundation end-to-end. Any gotchas discovered during the build are added to that foundation's SKILL.md.

Endpoints used

Delayed mode:

• GET /v2/snapshot/locale/us/markets/stocks/tickers/{ticker}: mark, bid/ask, recent OHLC. The single REST call per symbol.
• GET /v2/aggs/ticker/{ticker}/range/1/day/{from}/{to}: ~22 sessions of daily aggregates for the 30-day ADV bucketing in confidence scoring. Cached per ticker per run.

Live mode (in addition to the REST snapshot for fallback):

• wss://business.polygon.io/stocks channels: T.{ticker}, AM.{ticker}, FMV.{ticker} (subscribe-time fallback in that order), plus Q.{ticker} for bid/ask.

Doesn't handle (yet)

• Options OCC marks (the skill is equity-only for v1; options chains use a different snapshot endpoint and a different live channel under wss://socket.polygon.io/options. Extending to options is a clean follow-up; the fallback chain and confidence model carry over.)
• FX-denominated positions. The mark is in USD; non-USD positions need an FX overlay outside the scope of v1.
• Long/short with separate margin treatment. The skill flips the sign on unrealized_pnl_usd for negative-share positions but doesn't compute margin requirements.
• Multi-account roll-up. One CSV in, one report out.

Add these in a PR if you need them. The patterns are clean extensions of the existing chain + confidence logic.