Kalshi NBA Scalp Bot

What it is

An event-driven Kalshi bot that watches live NBA play-by-play from ESPN, buys the team that just scored a two- or three-pointer to win, and flips out a configurable number of seconds later. A FastAPI dashboard shows live P&L and has an on/off toggle. Requests to Kalshi are RSA-signed and a pytest suite covers the core logic.

The problem

Short-lived price moves after scoring events are too fast to trade by hand.

How it works

1. A poller turns ESPN live scoring plays into trade events (espn.py, nba.py).
2. The bot places the entry order on Kalshi and schedules the exit N seconds later, tracking state and P&L in dedicated modules.
3. A FastAPI app with a static dashboard shows live P&L and a master on/off switch; settings load through pydantic-settings.

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For your business

Event-driven execution bots with a live monitoring dashboard and a kill switch.