market-data

market-data is a skill for Claude Code from JoelLewis/finance_skills. It costs 164 tokens per session (3,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to market data, the prices, trades, quotes, trading volume, company information, and other financial facts delivered by exchanges and data vendors. It covers different data speeds and levels of order-book detail, along with licensing and distribution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare data types and vendors, choose real-time or delayed feeds, design market-data infrastructure, and plan the delivery of quotes, trades, depth, options, fixed-income, index, or company data.
Why use it?
It helps clarify which data a system needs and how it should be sourced and delivered. This avoids confusing delayed data with real-time data or choosing a feed without understanding its coverage and licensing.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the data-integration plugin — 4 skills shipped together

not rated 184repo +5 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 164 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to compare data types and vendors, choose real-time or delayed feeds, design market-data infrastructure, and plan the delivery of quotes, trades, depth, options, fixed-income, index, or company data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joellewis/finance_skills/market-data
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 JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill market-data
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install data-integration, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 164 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,026 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 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 12 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 $0.00164 $0.03026
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.01513
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00303

Measured 11d ago against content hash 069825a53fb1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-data 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.

plugins/data-integration/skills/market-data/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Market Data

Core Concepts

1. Market Data Types

  • Trade data: Last sale price, quantity, timestamp, condition codes (regular, odd lot, opening/closing), cumulative volume, VWAP.
  • Quote data: NBBO (best bid/offer across all exchanges), bid/ask sizes. Quote updates vastly outnumber trade updates in liquid instruments.
  • Depth of book: Multiple price levels beyond the NBBO with resting order quantities. Aggregated depth (size per level) or order-by-order (individual orders visible).
  • Index data: Real-time index values, composition, weightings, total return values. Sources include exchange-calculated (S&P 500 via Cboe) and third-party (MSCI, FTSE Russell).
  • Fixed income pricing: Dealer quotes, evaluated pricing (ICE, Bloomberg BVAL), TRACE trade reports for corporates, EMMA for municipals. Inherently less standardized than equities.
  • Options data: Chains (strikes/expirations), Greeks, implied volatility, volume, open interest. OPRA provides the consolidated options feed.
  • Fundamental data: Earnings, financial statements, corporate actions, analyst estimates. Sourced from vendors (Bloomberg, FactSet, S&P Capital IQ) rather than exchange feeds.
  • News and events: Headlines, economic calendar (FOMC, employment), corporate events (earnings dates, ex-dates), sentiment scores.

2. Data Levels

Level 1 — Top of Book: NBBO, last sale, volume, daily OHLC. Sufficient for portfolio management, client reporting, and order entry. Lowest cost and bandwidth.

Level 2 — Market Depth: Multiple price levels with aggregate size (top 5-20 levels per side). Reveals liquidity beyond the NBBO. Essential for active trading, market impact assessment, and algorithmic execution (TWAP, VWAP). Higher cost and bandwidth.

Level 3 — Full Order Book: Individual order detail (price, size, order ID) enabling complete book reconstruction and order lifecycle tracking. Provided by direct feeds (Nasdaq ITCH, NYSE Arca). Required for market making, HFT, and queue position modeling. Highest cost — hundreds of thousands of messages per second per exchange.

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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. 11d ago First seen · 238 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A 069825a53fb1

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market-data is a skill published in the GitHub repository JoelLewis/finance_skills (184 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 3,026 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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