News Centre
News Terminal — Portfolio Write-up What is it? The News Terminal is a real-time geopolitical intelligence dashboard I built and self-hosted at news.taciturn.uk. It was designed to give me a single place to monitor the news events most relevant to my algorithmic trading system, Taciturn specifically anything affecting oil prices, gold, silver, and global market sentiment. How it works The backend is a Python Flask app that pulls from a curated set of RSS feeds every five minutes, including Al Jazeera, Reuters, BBC World, BBC Politics, OilPrice.com, and The Guardian US. Every article is automatically scanned for keywords and tagged — OIL, GOLD, SILVER, GEOPOLITICAL, TRUMP — so the most relevant stories surface immediately. Urgent articles trigger a push notification to my phone via Pushover. ...