seasonal

seasonal is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/Vibe-Trading. It costs 36 tokens per session (575 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A trading-strategy method that generates signals from recurring calendar patterns, such as month-of-year and day-of-week effects, using market price and volume data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test effects such as January-to-March strength, weaker May-to-October performance, Monday patterns, Friday patterns, and month-end behavior.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to test whether seasonal patterns affect returns instead of relying on informal market sayings. Signals can combine monthly and weekly patterns.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to test effects such as January-to-March strength, weaker May-to-October performance, Monday patterns, Friday patterns, and month-end behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/vibe-trading/seasonal
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 · 33,258 stars · on GitHub · vibetrading.wiki

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 HKUDS/Vibe-Trading --skill seasonal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 575 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 $0.00036 $0.00575
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2aa5bda763c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seasonal 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (example_signal_engine.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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • seasonal — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
agent/src/skills/seasonal/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Seasonal / Calendar Effect Strategy

Purpose

Uses time-based regularities in financial markets (month effects, day-of-week effects, and similar patterns) to generate trading signals. Examples include the China A-share "spring rally" (January-March) and the "sell in May" effect.

Signal Logic

Month Effect (Default)

  • Specified bullish months → go long
  • Specified bearish months → go short / stay out
  • All other months → stay flat

Day-of-Week Effect (Optional Overlay)

  • Monday / Friday effects
  • Start-of-month / end-of-month effects

Combined Mode

Month signal × weekday signal; open a position only when both confirm.

Common Calendar Effects Reference

Effect Description Reference Configuration
Spring rally Higher probability of gains in China A-shares from January to March bullish_months=[1,2,3]
Sell in May Weaker performance from May to October bearish_months=[5,6,7,8,9,10]
Year-end effect Institutional rebalancing in December bullish_months=[11,12]
Monday effect Lower returns on Mondays bearish_weekdays=[0]
Friday effect Higher returns on Fridays bullish_weekdays=[4]

Parameters

Parameter Default Description
bullish_months [1, 2, 3, 11, 12] Bullish months
bearish_months [5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Bearish months
use_weekday False Whether to enable weekday effects
bullish_weekdays [4] Bullish weekdays (0=Monday, 4=Friday)
bearish_weekdays [0] Bearish weekdays

Common Pitfalls

  • pd.DatetimeIndex.month starts from 1 (1=January)
  • pd.DatetimeIndex.weekday starts from 0 (0=Monday, 4=Friday)
  • Seasonal strategies are statistical regularities, not deterministic signals, so pay attention to sample size in backtests
  • Neutral months (neither in bullish nor bearish) should output 0 and must not be skipped

Dependencies

pip install pandas numpy

Signal Convention

  • 1 = long (bullish window), -1 = short (bearish window), 0 = stand aside

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 9d ago First seen · 65 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 2aa5bda763c6

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seasonal is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/Vibe-Trading (33,258 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 575 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 2026-09-03.

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