behavioral-finance

behavioral-finance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/Vibe-Trading. It costs 42 tokens per session (2,377 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of behavioural-finance tools for explaining and measuring how investors depart from fully rational decisions. It covers reactions that are too strong or too slow, market sentiment, common biases, and ways to reduce those biases in trading rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interpret momentum and reversal strategies, design contrarian signals during extreme sentiment, and add bias checks to portfolio construction. It also addresses behaviour patterns in retail-driven Chinese A-share markets.
Why use it?
It connects investor behaviour with measurable trading signals instead of treating price patterns as purely mechanical. It helps test whether momentum, reversal, or sentiment effects may be influencing results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to interpret momentum and reversal strategies, design contrarian signals during extreme sentiment, and add bias checks to portfolio construction. It also addresses behaviour patterns in retail-driven Chinese A-share markets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/vibe-trading/behavioral-finance
About the project

Vibe-Trading is a personal trading agent that gives an AI system tools for market analysis, algorithmic trading, backtesting, and related workflows. It is for users who want an agent to research and evaluate trading strategies or manage simulated and other trading activities. The catalogue contains skills that expose these trading capabilities to compatible agents.

HKUDS/Vibe-Trading · 33,177 stars · on GitHub · vibetrading.wiki

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add HKUDS/Vibe-Trading --skill behavioral-finance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,377 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. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review Third-party audits
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00042 $0.02377
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01189
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00238

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1ecc91cc4d5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

behavioral-finance 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 11d 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:

agent/src/skills/behavioral-finance/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Behavioral Finance Applications

Overview

Translate behavioral-finance theory into quantifiable trading signals and risk-control rules. Core assumption: market participants systematically deviate from rational decision-making, and these biases can be predicted and exploited.

Applicable scenarios:

  • Behavioral interpretation and parameter optimization for momentum / reversal strategies
  • Contrarian signals when market sentiment becomes extreme
  • Debiasing mechanisms in portfolio construction
  • Capturing behavior patterns specific to retail-driven China A-share markets

Core Concepts

Overreaction and Underreaction

Underreaction → momentum effect:

Mechanism: anchoring bias + conservatism
  Investors anchor on old information and update insufficiently to new information
  After an earnings beat, the stock price digests it gradually rather than all at once
China A-share evidence:
  - Earnings-guidance beats still produce 3-5% excess return over the following 20 days
  - After analyst rating upgrades, momentum often persists for 1-3 months
Quant signal:
  SUE (standardized unexpected earnings) > 2σ -> buy and hold for 60 days
  Top 10% 20-day return -> continue holding for 20 days (China A-share momentum cycles are shorter)

Overreaction → reversal effect:

Mechanism: representativeness heuristic + availability bias
  Investors extrapolate recent trends too aggressively and ignore mean reversion
  Panic / euphoria drives reactions beyond what fundamentals support
China A-share evidence:
  - Rebounds after consecutive limit-downs (after 3 limit-downs, the average 20-day rebound is 8%)
  - Big annual losers often earn 5-10% excess return the next year
Quant signal:
  Bottom 10% of 250-day return -> buy and hold for 250 days
  RSI(5) < 10 -> short-term rebound signal (5-10 days)

Key distinction:

Dimension Underreaction (Momentum) Overreaction (Reversal)
Time scale 1-12 months <1 week or >12 months
Information type Clear events (earnings / announcements) Ambiguous information (sentiment / trend)
Best China A-share window 20-60 days 5-10 days (short term) / 1 year (long term)

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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. 11d ago First seen · 209 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 1ecc91cc4d5c

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behavioral-finance is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/Vibe-Trading (33,177 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 2,377 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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