Investbrain is a Laravel PHP web application that leverages Livewire and Tailwind for its frontend. Most databases should work, including MySQL and SQLite. Out of the box, we feature many market data providers. But we also offer an extensible market data provider interface for intrepid developers to create their own! We also offer integrations with OpenAI and Ollama for our ["chat with your holdings"](#chat-with-your-holdings) capability. Finally, of course we have robust support for i18n, a11y, and dark mode.
For ease of installation, we _highly recommend_ installing Investbrain using the provided [Docker Compose](https://github.com/investbrainapp/investbrain/blob/main/docker-compose.yml) file, which uses the official Investbrain Docker image and includes all the necessary dependencies to seamlessly build everything you need to get started quickly!
Adjust the `environment` properties in the compose file to your preferences.
**Importantly**, you need to set the `APP_KEY` value. If you're unsure, Investbrain will generate an `APP_KEY` for you on first run, but it will not persist. You must _manually_ update your environment configuration with this generated value!
It might take a few minutes to pull the Docker images. But assuming everything worked as expected, you should now be able to access Investbrain in the browser by visiting:
Investbrain offers an AI powered chat assistant that is grounded on *your* investments. This enables you to use AI as a thought partner when making investment decisions.
When self-hosting, you can enable the chat assistant by configuring your OpenAI Secret Key and Organization ID in your [.env](https://github.com/investbrainapp/investbrain/blob/main/.env.example) file. Navigate to OpenAI to [create your keys](https://platform.openai.com/api-keys).
If you are self-hosting your own large language models ("LLMs") that expose an OpenAI compatible API (e.g. [Ollama](https://ollama.com/blog/openai-compatibility)), you can update the `OPENAI_BASE_URI` configuration to your self-hosted instance. Ensure you also update the `OPENAI_MODEL` to an available model.
Always keep in mind the limitations of LLMs. When in doubt, consult a licensed investment advisor.
Investbrain includes an extensible market data provider interface that allows you to retrieve stock market data from multiple providers, such as [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/), [Twelve Data](https://twelvedata.com), [Finnhub](https://finnhub.io/pricing-stock-api-market-data), [Alpaca](https://alpaca.markets/), and [Alpha Vantage](https://www.alphavantage.co/support/). The interface includes a built-in fallback mechanism to ensure reliable data access, even if a provider fails.
You can also use Investbrain's built-in fallback mechanism to ensure reliable data access. If any provider fails, Investbrain will automatically attempt to retrieve data from the next available provider, continuing through your configured providers until one returns successfully.
In the above example, Yahoo Finance will be attempted first and the Alpha Vantage provider will be used as the fallback. If Yahoo Finance fails to retrieve market data, the application will automatically try Alpha Vantage.
If you wish to create your own market data provider, you can create your own implementation of the [MarketDataInterface](https://github.com/investbrainapp/investbrain/blob/main/app/Interfaces/MarketData/MarketDataInterface.php). You can refer to any existing market data implementation as an example.
Once you've created your market data implementation, be sure add your custom provider to the Investbrain configuration file, under the interfaces section:
Imports are "upserted" to the database. If the record does not already exist in the database, the record will be created. However, when a portfolio or transaction exists (i.e. the record's ID matches an existing record), the record will be updated. This way, you can simultaneously create new records, but also bulk update records.
Exporting your portfolios and transactions is a convenient way to back-up your Investbrain data. It is also a convenient way to maintain portability of *your* data.
There are several optional configurations available when installing using the recommended [Docker method](#self-hosting). These options are configurable using an environment file. Configurations can be added to your [.env](https://github.com/investbrainapp/investbrain/blob/main/.env.example) file or to the `environment` property in the [docker-compose.yml](https://github.com/investbrainapp/investbrain/blob/main/docker-compose.yml) file.
> Note: These options affect the [docker-compose.yml](https://github.com/investbrainapp/investbrain/blob/main/docker-compose.yml) file and are cached during run-time. If change any environment configurations, you'll have to restart the container before your changes take effect.
Investbrain comes bundled with several helpful command line utilities to make managing your portfolios and holdings more efficient. Keep in mind these commands are extremely powerful and can make irreversable changes to your holdings.
To run these commands, you can use `docker exec` like this:
```bash
docker exec -it investbrain-app php artisan <replace with command you want to run>
```
Just to be safe, we recommend backing up your portfolios before using these commands:
| refresh:market-data | Refreshes market data with your configured market data provider. |
| refresh:dividend-data | Refreshes dividend data with your configured market data provider. Will also re-calculate your total dividends earned for each holding. |
| refresh:split-data | Refreshes splits data with your configured market data provider. Will also create new transactions to account for any splits. |
| sync:daily-change | Re-calculates daily snapshots of your portfolio's daily performance. Useful to fill in gaps in your portfolio charts. (Note: this is an extremely resource intensive query.) |
**<summary>Application styling is broken and images are too big</summary>**
If you're serving Investbrain from a DNS name (e.g. example.com), it's likely that you haven't updated the `ASSET_URL` environment yet. The URL provided there will be used to generate absolute URLs for images, JS, and CSS assets on the front end of the application.
**<summary>Market data not refreshing on fresh install</summary>**
If you're unable to refresh market data out of the box (i.e. your market data provider is set to Yahoo), there is a chance Yahoo is being blocked by a firewall or adblocker. Pihole is known to block `fc.yahoo.com` which is the domain used to query Yahoo.
Once you whitelist `fc.yahoo.com` in pihole, your market data should begin populating!
Investbrain has a robus PHPUnit test suite that creates an in-memory SQLite database and runs any queued jobs synchronously using Laravel's array driver. You can run the entire Investbrain test suite from within the Docker container by running:
We appreciate any contributions to Investbrain! Please open a pull request on our [Github repository](https://github.com/investbrainapp/investbrain). Here are some ideas for first time contributors:
If you discover a security vulnerability within Investbrain, please submit your report via [Github](https://github.com/investbrainapp/investbrain/security/advisories/new). All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed. We ask that you keep any suspected vulnerabilities private and confidential until they have been appropriately addressed.
