compare

compare is a skill for Claude Code from davidromeo/tradeblocks-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,692 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for comparing trading-strategy results across backtests, live trading, portfolios, or time periods. A backtest is a simulation using historical market data, while actual results come from real trades.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare backtest results with live execution, compare strategies in one portfolio, compare separate portfolios, or compare the same strategy across time ranges.
Why use it?
It makes differences between theoretical and real performance, competing strategies, portfolios, or periods easier to examine.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the tradeblocks plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare backtest results with live execution, compare strategies in one portfolio, compare separate portfolios, or compare the same strategy across time ranges.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davidromeo/tradeblocks-skills/compare
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 davidromeo/tradeblocks-skills --skill compare
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidromeo/tradeblocks-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tradeblocks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,692 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.
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 $0.00053 $0.01692
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00846
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00169

Measured 10d ago against content hash f555cc4619f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compare 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 10d 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.

skills/compare/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Performance Comparison

Explore differences between strategies, execution modes, or time periods.

Prerequisites

  • TradeBlocks MCP server running
  • At least one block with trade data loaded
  • For backtest vs actual: Both trade log and reporting log for the same strategy
  • For strategy vs strategy: Multi-strategy block or two blocks
  • For block vs block: Two or more blocks

Process

Step 1: Identify Comparison Type

Ask the user what they want to compare:

Type Use Case Primary Tool
Backtest vs Actual Explore theoretical vs live execution compare_backtest_to_actual
Strategy vs Strategy (same block) Compare strategies within a portfolio get_strategy_comparison
Block vs Block Compare separate portfolios side-by-side compare_blocks / block_diff
Period vs Period Analyze same strategy across time ranges get_period_returns

Ask: "What would you like to compare?"

Step 2a: Backtest vs Actual Comparison

Use compare_backtest_to_actual to explore how theoretical performance compares to live execution.

Key parameters:

  • blockId: Block folder name
  • scaling: How to compare P&L fairly (see below)
  • strategy: Optional filter to specific strategy
  • dateRange: Optional date filter
  • matchedOnly: Only include trades where both backtest and actual exist
  • groupBy: Group results by "none", "strategy", "date", "week", or "month"
  • detailLevel: "summary" (aggregate by date+strategy) or "trades" (individual trade comparison with field-by-field differences)
  • outliersOnly: Only return high-slippage outliers (z-score threshold)
  • outliersThreshold: Z-score threshold for outlier detection (default: 2)

Scaling modes (see references/scaling.md):

Mode What It Does Use When
raw Shows P&L as-is Contract sizes match between backtest and actual
perContract Divides each P&L by contract count Comparing per-lot performance regardless of size
toReported Scales backtest DOWN to match actual contract count Backtest uses more contracts than actual

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 186 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A f555cc4619f1

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compare is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidromeo/tradeblocks-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,692 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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