# Investor's Business Daily (IBD) News & Stock Signals Scraper (`axery/ibd-markets-news-tickers`) Actor

Scrape Investor's Business Daily (IBD) market trends, stock breakout ideas, and buy points with stock tickers and sentiment.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/axery/ibd-markets-news-tickers.md
- **Developed by:** [Axery](https://apify.com/axery) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Business, AI
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.88 / 1,000 ibd article with tickers

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Investor's Business Daily (IBD) News & Stock Signals Scraper

Scrape real-time stock market analysis, CAN SLIM breakout ideas, and market trend reports from **Investor's Business Daily (IBD)** ([investors.com](https://www.investors.com)).

IBD is famous worldwide for **"The Big Picture"** market direction analysis, **CAN SLIM** growth investing methodology, institutional buy points, and Magnificent Seven tech coverage.

Each article is automatically enriched with **Stock Tickers** (e.g. `NVDA`, `AAPL`, `MSFT`, `TSLA`, `SN`, `MRNA`) and automated **Sentiment Analysis** (`BULLISH`, `BEARISH`, `NEUTRAL`).

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### ⚡ Key Highlights

- **The Big Picture & Buy Points**: Extract market direction signals and stocks trading near institutional buy points.
- **Zero Headless Browsers**: Pure HTTP syndication runs in under 1 second per refresh.
- **Stock Ticker Tagging**: Automatically identifies stock tickers from headlines, summaries, and stock URLs.
- **Pay-Per-Event (PPE)**: Cost-effective — only pay for the exact articles you extract ($0.005 run start + $0.001875 per result).

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### 📥 Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|---------|-------------|
| `maxItems` | Integer | `100` | Maximum articles to extract. Set to `0` for all available articles (~300 articles). |
| `feeds` | Array | `["market-trend", "news", "technology"]` | Which IBD feeds to scrape: `market-trend` (The Big Picture), `news` (Stocks to Buy & Research), or `technology`. |
| `tickers` | Array | `[]` | Filter by stock tickers (e.g., `["NVDA", "AAPL", "TSLA"]`). Returns all if empty. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | `{ "useApifyProxy": false }` | Optional proxy settings. Direct connection works without proxies. |

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### 📤 Output Dataset Format

```json
{
  "article_id": "ibd:a1b2c3d4e5f6",
  "source": "investors.com",
  "title": "SharkNinja Leads 5 Stocks Near Buy Points With Strong Sector Tailwinds",
  "url": "https://www.investors.com/news/sharkninja-stock-buy-points-sn-stock-trv-csx-qlys-lind/",
  "published_at": "2026-10-24T12:00:08Z",
  "feed": "news",
  "categories": ["News", "All News And Stock Ideas", "Stocks To Buy And Research"],
  "summary": "SharkNinja and other top stocks are catching sectoral tailwinds that often have little to do with AI.",
  "stock_tickers": ["SN", "TRV", "CSX", "QLYS"],
  "has_tickers": true,
  "sentiment_hint": "BULLISH",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-24T19:15:00Z"
}
```

***

### 🤖 Ideal Use Cases

- **Growth Stock Screeners & Quants**: Automated tracking of CAN SLIM breakout ideas and buy points.
- **Sentiment & Momentum Bots**: Instant alerts on Dow Jones, S\&P 500, and Nasdaq market status changes.
- **Discord / Telegram Trading Channels**: Real-time webhook feed of high-probability stock setups.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of articles to extract. Set to 0 for all available items (~300 articles).

## `feeds` (type: `array`):

Which IBD news feeds to scrape: market-trend (The Big Picture), news (Stocks to Buy & Research), or technology.

## `tickers` (type: `array`):

Optional list of tickers to filter (e.g. NVDA, AAPL, TSLA, SN). Leave empty for all articles.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional proxy settings. Direct HTTP requests work reliably without proxies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "feeds": [
    "market-trend",
    "news",
    "technology"
  ],
  "tickers": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `articles` (type: `string`):

Extracted stock market trend articles with tickers and sentiment signals.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("axery/ibd-markets-news-tickers").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("axery/ibd-markets-news-tickers").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call axery/ibd-markets-news-tickers --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,axery/ibd-markets-news-tickers"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/YC6xuyeOY9CcfBXwd/builds/NrdmlVpVmTvRVVFRz/openapi.json