MarketsStatus Telegram Bot

A small Telegram bot helper that reports the open/close status of major international stock markets and the time remaining until they open or close.

Requirements

• Python 3.9+ recommended
• pip

On Windows, time zone data comes from the tzdata package.

Installation

1. Create/activate your virtual environment (optional but recommended).
2. Install dependencies from requirements.txt:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

   If your Python is 3.9+ on Windows and you see time zone issues, ensure tzdata is installed:

   pip install tzdata

Configuration

Create a .env file in the project root with your Telegram Bot token:

BOT_TOKEN=123456789:ABCDEF_your_real_token_here

Run

Start your bot process as you normally would. For a simple run from this folder:

python MarketsStatis.py

Note: The bot uses telebot.AsyncTeleBot. Ensure your runtime integrates the bot into an async loop/polling mechanism if needed by your setup.

Main Function: markets_status

• Input: optional language code ("en" or "es", defaults to English).
• Logic:
  • Defines a set of markets (US, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan, UK, Germany, UAE, Russia, India, Australia) with their IANA time zones and trading sessions.
  • Uses zoneinfo (and tzdata on Windows) to compute local times per market.
  • Skips weekends and common national holidays (via the holidays package) when computing business days.
  • For each market, determines whether it is currently open or closed and calculates the remaining time until close (if open) or until the next open (if closed).
• Output: a formatted, multi-line string headed by “International market status” (or Spanish equivalent) suitable for sending as a Telegram message.

Telegram Command

• /markets — replies with the formatted status text returned by markets_status in the user’s language (English or Spanish).