position-sizing

position-sizing is a skill for Claude Code from agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (2,390 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of methods for deciding how much money to put into each trade. It includes fixed-percentage, volatility-based, Kelly, liquidity-based, and other sizing approaches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate trade sizes from account risk, market volatility, expected performance, or Solana liquidity-pool depth.
Why use it?
It separates the quality of a trading signal from the amount at risk, helping limit losses when markets move against a position or when a token has little liquidity.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the trading-skills plugin — 68 skills shipped together

not rated 356repo +10 9d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 22 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to calculate trade sizes from account risk, market volatility, expected performance, or Solana liquidity-pool depth.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills/position-sizing
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill position-sizing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install trading-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 68 skills.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,390 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 21 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 21 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00022 $0.02390
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01195
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00478
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00239

Measured 12d ago against content hash 522a7c3de61d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

position-sizing 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/portfolio_sizer.py, scripts/size_calculator.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/position-sizing/SKILL.md · 293 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 293 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Position Sizing

Position sizing is the single most important risk management decision in trading. Your entry signal determines direction; your position size determines survival. A mediocre strategy with proper sizing will outperform a great strategy with reckless sizing over any meaningful time horizon.

Core principle: Size determines survival, not entries. Two traders with the same signals but different sizing will have wildly different outcomes. The one who sizes conservatively survives drawdowns and compounds capital; the one who oversizes blows up.

Methods Covered

Method Best For Key Input
Fixed Fractional General trading, most recommended Account risk %
Volatility-Adjusted Volatile markets, multi-asset ATR or realized vol
Kelly Criterion Quantified edge with track record Win rate + payoff ratio
Liquidity-Constrained Low-liquidity Solana tokens Pool depth
Anti-Martingale Trend-following strategies Recent P&L streak

1. Fixed Fractional Sizing

The most recommended method for most traders. Risk a fixed percentage of your account on each trade.

Formula

risk_amount = account_value * risk_percentage
price_risk_per_unit = entry_price - stop_loss_price
position_size_units = risk_amount / price_risk_per_unit
position_value = position_size_units * entry_price

Risk Tiers

Tier Risk Per Trade Use Case
Conservative 0.5–1% New strategies, drawdown recovery
Standard 1–2% Most traders, proven strategies
Aggressive 3–5% High-conviction setups with strong, measured edge

Example

account = 10_000  # $10,000 or 100 SOL
risk_pct = 0.02   # 2%
entry = 1.50
stop_loss = 1.30

risk_amount = account * risk_pct          # $200
price_risk = entry - stop_loss            # $0.20
position_units = risk_amount / price_risk # 1,000 tokens
position_value = position_units * entry   # $1,500

Read the full file on GitHub · 293 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 293 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 522a7c3de61d

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position-sizing is a skill published in the GitHub repository agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills (356 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,390 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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