equities-trading

equities-trading is a skill for Claude Code from mahmoud20138/Tradecraft. It costs 116 tokens per session (1,066 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to trading shares and stock CFDs, which are contracts that track a stock’s price without directly owning the shares.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan opening-range breakout trades, analyse earnings and sectors, compare stocks with indexes, and account for NYSE and Nasdaq trading sessions.
Why use it?
It explains stock-market timing and mechanics that affect trading, including regular, pre-market, and after-hours liquidity and the impact of earnings.

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 It helps plan opening-range breakout trades, analyse earnings and sectors, compare stocks with indexes, and account for NYSE and Nasdaq trading sessions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mahmoud20138/tradecraft/equities-trading
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 mahmoud20138/Tradecraft --skill equities-trading
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 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,066 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 $0.00116 $0.01066
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00533
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00107

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5a920da98294, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

equities-trading 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/tradecraft/skills/equities-trading/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Equities Trading | Domain: trading | Category: asset-class | Level: beginner Tags: trading, asset-class, equities, stocks, cfds, earnings, sectors

Equities & Stock CFD Trading

Trading Hours (Critical for CFDs)

Market UTC EST Notes
Pre-market 09:00–13:30 04:00–08:30 Low liquidity, wide spreads
NYSE/NASDAQ Open 13:30–20:00 09:30–16:00 Primary window
After-hours 20:00–01:00 16:00–20:00 Low liquidity

CFD Rule: Stock CFDs (TSLAm, AAPLm, etc.) only trade during NY session 13:30–20:00 UTC

Opening Range Breakout (ORB)

def opening_range_breakout(candles_930_to_1000: list) -> dict:
    """First 30 minutes of NYSE session sets the range for ORB strategy."""
    highs = [c["high"] for c in candles_930_to_1000]
    lows  = [c["low"]  for c in candles_930_to_1000]
    orb_high = max(highs)
    orb_low  = min(lows)
    orb_range = orb_high - orb_low
    return {
        "orb_high": orb_high, "orb_low": orb_low,
        "orb_range": round(orb_range, 2),
        "long_trigger": orb_high,
        "short_trigger": orb_low,
        "long_target": round(orb_high + orb_range, 2),
        "short_target": round(orb_low - orb_range, 2),
        "long_stop": round(orb_low, 2),
        "short_stop": round(orb_high, 2),
        "timing": "Trade breakouts between 10:00–11:30 AM EST only",
    }

Earnings Impact Framework

  • Beat + guidance raise → gap up, momentum long first hour
  • Beat + guidance cut → sell the news — fade the gap within 30 min
  • Miss → gap down, short any bounce to VWAP
  • In-line → range trade, fade opening extremes
  • Rule: Never hold stock CFD positions through earnings — gap risk is unlimited

Sector Rotation Model

Cycle Phase Leading Sectors Lagging Sectors
Early expansion Tech, Consumer Disc Utilities, Staples
Mid expansion Industrials, Materials Healthcare
Late expansion Energy, Materials Tech
Recession Utilities, Healthcare, Staples Energy, Tech

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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 · 100 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 5a920da98294

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equities-trading is a skill published in the GitHub repository mahmoud20138/Tradecraft (15 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,066 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.