dan-zanger-breakout-strategy

dan-zanger-breakout-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from mahmoud20138/Tradecraft. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,319 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A stock-trading guide based on finding price-chart patterns that may signal a sharp rise, then confirming them with trading volume.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study breakout patterns, check whether volume supports a move, choose entry and exit rules, limit losses, and add to positions that keep rising.
Why use it?
It gives traders a defined way to judge possible breakouts and manage losses instead of relying on unclear chart signals or guesswork.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the tradecraft plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to study breakout patterns, check whether volume supports a move, choose entry and exit rules, limit losses, and add to positions that keep rising.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mahmoud20138/tradecraft/dan-zanger-breakout-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mahmoud20138/Tradecraft --skill dan-zanger-breakout-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mahmoud20138/Tradecraft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tradecraft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,319 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 $0.00046 $0.02319
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01159
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00232

Measured 12d ago against content hash de7305b28c29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dan-zanger-breakout-strategy 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 12d 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/tradecraft/skills/dan-zanger-breakout-strategy/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dan Zanger Breakout Strategy

Background and Track Record

Dan Zanger turned $10,775 into $42 million in 23 months (1998-2000), verified by the IRS. He spent 21 years (1976-1997) studying charts before his breakout run during the late-1990s tech bull market. His edge came from recognizing recurring price patterns that precede major stock advances.

His core philosophy: Price + Volume = All the information you need.

He uses no complex indicators. Every decision is based on chart patterns, price action, and volume behavior.

Key stocks from his legendary run: Qualcomm, Juniper Networks, JDS Uniphase, Broadcom.


Core Strategy Formula

Success = Preparation + Opportunity

  1. Master a small set of high-probability chart patterns
  2. Wait for the right market environment (strong bull market / leading sector)
  3. Execute with discipline when patterns and volume align
  4. Cut losses immediately when breakouts fail
  5. Let winners run and pyramid into strength

The Six Breakout Setups

1. Cup and Handle

Structure: Rounded decline (cup) followed by a short, shallow pullback (handle) near the prior high.

Supply/Demand Logic:

  • Left side: profit-taking after a prior advance creates selling pressure
  • Bottom: volume dries up as aggressive sellers exit; shares transfer to stronger hands
  • Right side: demand returns, pushing price back toward the prior high
  • Handle: last wave of sellers (trapped investors exiting at breakeven) creates a shallow pullback with contracting volume

Buy Point: Break above the top of the handle on a surge in volume.

Key Detail: Volume must contract during the handle and expand on the breakout.


2. High Tight Flag

Structure: Explosive rally of 80-100%+ in a few weeks (flagpole), followed by a very shallow sideways consolidation (flag) near the highs.

Supply/Demand Logic:

  • Flagpole: massive institutional accumulation drives rapid price appreciation on heavy volume
  • Flag: correction is unusually shallow (price stays near highs); volume dries up indicating minimal selling pressure
  • Remaining supply gets absorbed during the tight consolidation

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 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. 12d ago First seen · 267 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A de7305b28c29

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dan-zanger-breakout-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository mahmoud20138/Tradecraft (15 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,319 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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