pair-trade-screener

pair-trade-screener is a skill for Claude Code from nicepkg/ai-workflow. It costs 87 tokens per session (4,598 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of pair-trade-screener, MIT.

A statistical tool for finding pairs of stocks whose prices have historically moved together and analysing whether their price difference may return toward normal levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find related stocks within sectors, test long-term relationships, calculate spread z-scores, create entry and exit signals, and estimate position sizes.
Why use it?
It helps identify market-neutral pair trades, where the strategy focuses on the relative movement between two securities instead of the overall market direction.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/fetch_price_data.py --sector Technology --lookback 730.

Good fit Use it to find related stocks within sectors, test long-term relationships, calculate spread z-scores, create entry and exit signals, and estimate position sizes.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/ai-workflow
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/pair-trade-screener

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,598 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00087 $0.04598
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.02299
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00920
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00460

Measured 5d ago against content hash f79ba78e8714, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pair-trade-screener 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/analyze_spread.py, scripts/find_pairs.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

This is a copy

86% identical to pair-trade-screener — 70 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

workflows/stock-trader-workflow/.claude/skills/pair-trade-screener/SKILL.md · 623 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 623 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pair Trade Screener

Overview

This skill identifies and analyzes statistical arbitrage opportunities through pair trading. Pair trading is a market-neutral strategy that profits from the relative price movements of two correlated securities, regardless of overall market direction. The skill uses rigorous statistical methods including correlation analysis and cointegration testing to find robust trading pairs.

Core Methodology:

  • Identify pairs of stocks with high correlation and similar sector/industry exposure
  • Test for cointegration (long-term statistical relationship)
  • Calculate spread z-scores to identify mean-reversion opportunities
  • Generate entry/exit signals based on statistical thresholds
  • Provide position sizing for market-neutral exposure

Key Advantages:

  • Market-neutral: Profits in up, down, or sideways markets
  • Risk management: Limited exposure to broad market movements
  • Statistical foundation: Data-driven, not discretionary
  • Diversification: Uncorrelated to traditional long-only strategies

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • User asks for "pair trading opportunities"
  • User wants "market-neutral strategies"
  • User requests "statistical arbitrage screening"
  • User asks "which stocks move together?"
  • User wants to hedge sector exposure
  • User requests mean-reversion trade ideas
  • User asks about relative value trading

Example user requests:

  • "Find pair trading opportunities in the tech sector"
  • "Which stocks are cointegrated?"
  • "Screen for statistical arbitrage opportunities"
  • "Find mean-reversion pairs"
  • "What are good market-neutral trades right now?"

Analysis Workflow

Step 1: Define Pair Universe

Objective: Establish the pool of stocks to analyze for pair relationships.

Option A: Sector-Based Screening (Recommended)

Select a specific sector to screen:

  • Technology
  • Financials
  • Healthcare
  • Consumer Discretionary
  • Industrials
  • Energy
  • Materials
  • Consumer Staples
  • Utilities
  • Real Estate
  • Communication Services

Read the full file on GitHub · 623 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 623 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A f79ba78e8714

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pair-trade-screener is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/ai-workflow (282 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 4,598 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to pair-trade-screener, differing in 70 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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