guard-trailing-stop

A two-stage trailing stop for Hyperliquid perpetual futures, which are leveraged contracts without an expiry date. It follows return on equity, meaning profit or loss compared with the margin used, and adjusts the exit level as a trade develops.

In plain words
What is it for?
It can guard existing long or short positions or attach to another trading strategy. It supports profit tiers, configurable retracement levels, maximum-loss floors, and stagnation-based exits.
Why use it?
It helps avoid closing a position too early while still protecting gains later. It can wait for repeated stop breaches in the first stage, then tighten protection as profits grow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nunchi-trade/agent-cli/guard
Any agent
npx skills add Nunchi-trade/agent-cli --skill guard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nunchi-trade/agent-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,063 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00095 $0.02063
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01032
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00206

Measured 2d ago against content hash 510fbf088625, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guard-trailing-stop 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/standalone_runner.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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/guard/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guard Trailing Stop

Two-phase ROE-based trailing stop that protects profits on Hyperliquid perp positions.

How It Works

Phase 1: "Let It Breathe"

  • Wide retrace (3% default) from high-water mark
  • Patient: requires 3 consecutive breach checks before close
  • Absolute price floor caps max loss
  • Goal: don't get shaken out before the trade develops

Phase 2: "Lock the Bag"

  • Tight retrace (1.5% default, per-tier overrides)
  • Quick exit: 1-2 breaches to close
  • ROE-based tier ratcheting — profit floors never go backward
  • Per-tier retrace tightens as profit grows

ROE-Based Tiers

All triggers use ROE (Return on Equity): PnL / margin * 100. At 10x leverage, 1% price move = 10% ROE.

Usage

Standalone — Guard an existing position

hl guard start ETH-PERP \
  --entry 2500.0 \
  --size 1.0 \
  --direction long \
  --leverage 10 \
  --preset tight \
  --tick 5

Composable — Attach to any strategy

# config.yaml
strategy: avellaneda_mm
instrument: ETH-PERP
tick_interval: 10.0
guard:
  enabled: true
  preset: tight
  leverage: 10.0
hl run avellaneda_mm --config config.yaml

Presets

Preset Tiers Stagnation TP Use Case
moderate 6 (10/20/30/50/75/100% ROE) No Standard trades
tight 4 (10/20/40/75% ROE) Yes (8% ROE, 1hr) Aggressive protection

Module API

from modules.trailing_stop import TrailingStopEngine, GuardAction
from modules.guard_config import GuardConfig, PRESETS
from modules.guard_state import GuardState

config = PRESETS["tight"]
config.leverage = 10.0
config.direction = "long"

engine = TrailingStopEngine(config)
state = GuardState.new("ETH-PERP", entry_price=2500.0, position_size=1.0, direction="long")

result = engine.evaluate(price=2520.0, state=state)
# result.action: GuardAction.HOLD | .CLOSE | .TIER_CHANGED
# result.state: updated state (persist this)
# result.roe_pct, result.effective_floor, result.reason

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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. 2d ago First seen · 192 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 510fbf088625

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guard-trailing-stop is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nunchi-trade/agent-cli (515 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,063 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 2026-08-30.

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