volume-trading-strategies

volume-trading-strategies is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirholas/three.ws. It costs 93 tokens per session (4,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to using trading volume, order books, and bid-ask spreads to understand crypto markets. It also covers market making, liquidity, trade execution methods, automated bots, and detecting manipulated volume.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse volume and liquidity, plan large trades, provide liquidity, study market-making strategies, and identify or defend against volume manipulation.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish genuine market activity from weak demand or misleading trading activity when judging a token or market.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to analyse volume and liquidity, plan large trades, provide liquidity, study market-making strategies, and identify or defend against volume manipulation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nirholas/three.ws/volume-trading-strategies
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nirholas/three.ws --skill volume-trading-strategies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirholas/three.ws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,566 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
  • 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 $0.00093 $0.04566
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02283
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00913
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00457

Measured 6d ago against content hash 31fd3d1eeb38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

volume-trading-strategies 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 6d 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.

data/skills/trading/volume-trading-strategies/SKILL.md · 482 lines

How it starts

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Volume Trading Strategies — From First Principles

This skill teaches you to understand, analyze, and execute volume-based trading strategies. You'll learn why volume is the most important signal in any market, how to read it, and how to use it — both for legitimate market making and for detecting manipulation.

Why Volume Matters

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              THE VOLUME TRUTH                            │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                          │
│   Price tells you WHERE the market is.                   │
│   Volume tells you WHETHER the market MEANS IT.          │
│                                                          │
│   Price up + Volume up   = Strong trend (real buyers)    │
│   Price up + Volume down = Weak trend (fading momentum)  │
│   Price down + Volume up = Capitulation (watch reversal) │
│   Price down + Volume dn = Drift (no conviction either)  │
│                                                          │
│   Volume PRECEDES price. Always.                         │
│                                                          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Order Book Fundamentals

Anatomy of an Order Book

        ASKS (Sellers)
        ───────────────
Price   │ Size  │ Total
$1.05   │  500  │  500   ← cheapest seller
$1.06   │ 1200  │ 1700
$1.07   │  800  │ 2500
$1.08   │ 3000  │ 5500   ← thick resistance
$1.10   │  200  │ 5700

═══════════════════════════
        SPREAD: $0.02
═══════════════════════════

$1.03   │ 2000  │ 2000   ← highest buyer
$1.02   │ 1500  │ 3500
$1.01   │  400  │ 3900
$1.00   │ 5000  │ 8900   ← thick support
$0.98   │  300  │ 9200
        ───────────────
        BIDS (Buyers)

Key Metrics

Metric Formula What It Tells You
Spread Best Ask - Best Bid Liquidity cost; tight = liquid
Depth Sum of orders within X% of mid How much size the book can absorb
Imbalance Bid size / (Bid size + Ask size) Directional pressure
VWAP Σ(Price × Volume) / Σ(Volume) Fair price weighted by activity
Slippage Execution price vs mid price Cost of large orders

Read the full file on GitHub · 482 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. 6d ago First seen · 482 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 31fd3d1eeb38

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volume-trading-strategies is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirholas/three.ws (114 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 4,566 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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