us-etf-flow

us-etf-flow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HKUDS/Vibe-Trading. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,753 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An analysis workflow for tracking money entering and leaving US exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, along with sector breadth and investment-style flows. ETF flows show capital allocation separately from price movement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine ETF creations and redemptions, sector flow trends, market breadth, and thematic or style-factor momentum.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish actual fund buying or selling from a price rise or fall caused by market momentum. The results can indicate institutional positioning, sector rotation, and changing risk appetite.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to examine ETF creations and redemptions, sector flow trends, market breadth, and thematic or style-factor momentum.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hkuds/vibe-trading/us-etf-flow
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

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,753 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 $0.00038 $0.02753
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01376
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00551
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00275

Measured 9d ago against content hash f586c01a0117, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

us-etf-flow 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.

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/us-etf-flow/SKILL.md · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

US ETF Flow & Sector Breadth Analysis

Overview

Track capital flows through US ETFs to identify institutional positioning, sector rotation trends, and risk appetite shifts. ETF flows are a real-time proxy for institutional capital allocation — unlike 13F filings (45-day lag), ETF creation/redemption data is available daily.

Core Concepts

1. ETF Flow Mechanics

Creation / Redemption process:

  • Inflows (creation): Authorized Participants (APs) deliver baskets of underlying securities to the ETF issuer → receive new ETF shares → sell on exchange. This happens when ETF trades at a premium to NAV.
  • Outflows (redemption): APs buy ETF shares on exchange → redeem with issuer for underlying securities → sell securities. This happens when ETF trades at a discount to NAV.
  • Signal interpretation: sustained large inflows = institutional demand; sustained large outflows = institutional liquidation.

Key distinction:

  • ETF price movement ≠ ETF flow. Price can rise on low volume (momentum). Flows require actual capital commitment.
  • Flows are a quantity signal (how much money is moving), not a price signal.

2. Major ETF Flow Categories

Broad Market ETFs
ETF Tracking Index AUM Flow Signal
SPY S&P 500 ~$500B Broadest equity risk appetite
IVV S&P 500 ~$400B Long-term institutional allocation
VOO S&P 500 ~$400B Retail + advisor allocation
QQQ Nasdaq 100 ~$250B Tech / growth appetite
IWM Russell 2000 ~$60B Small-cap risk appetite
DIA Dow Jones 30 ~$30B Value / blue-chip sentiment

Interpretation rules:

# Broad market flow signals
if spy_flow > 0 and iwm_flow > 0:
    signal = "risk_on"  # Both large and small cap getting inflows
elif spy_flow > 0 and iwm_flow < 0:
    signal = "quality_flight"  # Money rotating to large-cap safety
elif spy_flow < 0 and iwm_flow < 0:
    signal = "risk_off"  # Broad equity outflows
elif spy_flow < 0 and iwm_flow > 0:
    signal = "risk_seeking"  # Rotation from large to small (rare, usually early cycle)

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 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. 9d ago First seen · 273 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A f586c01a0117

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us-etf-flow is a skill published in the GitHub repository HKUDS/Vibe-Trading (33,258 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,753 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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