claude-trading-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-trading-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from tradermonty/claude-trading-skills. It costs 12,658 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository-specific instructions for Claude trading skills, which help equity investors and traders with market research and analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
They guide work on skills for market analysis, charting, economic calendars, and trading strategies.
Why use it?
They explain the project structure, required skill files, and external paid data services, reducing setup and contribution mistakes.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is tradermonty/claude-trading-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-trading-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-trading-skills configures →

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/username/....

About the project

Claude Trading Skills is a collection of Claude Code workflows for individual investors who want structured market analysis, charting, economic-calendar review, screening, trade planning, journaling, and risk management. It is designed for people using long-term investing, ETFs, dividend stocks, and disciplined swing trading, and the catalogue entries package these workflows as skills, agents, commands, settings, and instructions.

tradermonty/claude-trading-skills · 2,808 stars · on GitHub · tradermonty.github.io

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tradermonty/claude-trading-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for claude-trading-skills CLAUDE.md

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/claude-md/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/claude-md)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for claude-trading-skills CLAUDE.md

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 12,658 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 12,658 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.12658 $0.12658
Opus 5 $0.06329 $0.06329
Sonnet 5 $0.02532 $0.02532
Haiku 4.5 $0.01266 $0.01266

Measured 5d ago against content hash f8e4b95ae136, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-trading-skills CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

CLAUDE.md · 1,007 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,007 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Repository Purpose

This repository contains Claude Skills for equity investors and traders. Each skill packages domain-specific prompts, knowledge bases, and helper scripts to assist with market analysis, technical charting, economic calendar monitoring, and trading strategy development. Skills are designed to work in both Claude's web app and Claude Code environments.

⚠️ Important: Some skills require paid API subscriptions (FMP API and/or FINVIZ Elite) to function. See the API Key Management section for detailed requirements by skill.

Repository Architecture

Skill Structure

Each skill follows a standardized directory structure:

<skill-name>/
├── SKILL.md              # Required: Skill definition with YAML frontmatter
├── references/           # Knowledge bases loaded into Claude's context
├── scripts/             # Executable Python scripts (not auto-loaded)
└── assets/              # Templates and resources for output generation

SKILL.md Format:

  • YAML frontmatter with name and description fields
  • name must match the directory name for proper skill detection
  • Description defines when the skill should be triggered
  • Body contains workflow instructions written in imperative/infinitive form
  • All instructions assume Claude will execute them, not the user

Progressive Loading:

  1. Metadata (YAML frontmatter) loads first for skill detection
  2. SKILL.md body loads when skill is invoked
  3. References load conditionally based on analysis needs
  4. Scripts execute on demand, never auto-loaded into context

Key Design Patterns

Knowledge Base Organization:

  • references/ contains markdown files with domain knowledge (sector rotation patterns, technical analysis frameworks, news source credibility guides)
  • Knowledge bases provide context without requiring Claude to have specialized training
  • References are read selectively during skill execution to minimize token usage

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,007 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago Changed · +22 lines · +318 tokens per session f8e4b95ae136
  2. 9d ago Changed · +1 lines · +74 tokens per session 81acced83525
  3. 11d ago First seen · 984 lines · 12,266 tokens per session scan A 29d2d012f115

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-trading-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository tradermonty/claude-trading-skills (2,808 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12,658 tokens to every session, about $0.0633 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Related

Other instructions, from other repositories

next.js AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.

vercel/next.js · 7,296 tokens

codex AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for openai/codex, covering rust/codex-rs, the codex-core crate, code review rules, crate api surface and model visible context.

openai/codex · 5,153 tokens

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 6,785 tokens

spec-kit AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for github/spec-kit, covering agents.md, about spec kit and specify, quickstart — add a new integration in 5 steps, integration architecture and integrationmanifest — file tracking.

github/spec-kit · 7,104 tokens

langchain AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.

langchain-ai/langchain · 4,469 tokens

vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md

Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, applying the notice (cutover) and fallback chain (never fail the build).

microsoft/vscode · 5,001 tokens