trading-expert

trading-expert is a skill for Claude Code from personamanagmentlayer/pcl. It costs 55 tokens per session (3,584 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to building algorithmic trading systems: software that uses rules and market data to place or manage trades. It covers strategy design, quantitative analysis, portfolio management, risk, and trade execution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work with order books and historical or real-time data, test strategy logic, optimize portfolios, and design order-routing or execution algorithms.
Why use it?
It helps turn trading ideas into software while accounting for market data, transaction costs, slippage, and risk.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to work with order books and historical or real-time data, test strategy logic, optimize portfolios, and design order-routing or execution algorithms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/trading-expert
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Any agent
npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill trading-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,584 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 15 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.03584
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01792
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00717
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00358

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5a48a951ba20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trading-expert 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.

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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.

stdlib/domains/trading-expert/SKILL.md · 437 lines

How it starts

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Trading Expert

Expert guidance for algorithmic trading systems, quantitative analysis, market data processing, and trading platform development.

Core Concepts

Trading Systems

  • Algorithmic trading strategies
  • High-frequency trading (HFT)
  • Market making
  • Arbitrage strategies
  • Portfolio optimization
  • Risk management

Market Data

  • Order book processing
  • Tick data analysis
  • Market microstructure
  • Real-time data feeds
  • Historical data analysis

Execution

  • Order routing
  • Smart order routing (SOR)
  • Execution algorithms (TWAP, VWAP)
  • Slippage minimization
  • Transaction cost analysis

Trading Strategy Implementation

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from typing import Optional

class TradingStrategy:
    def __init__(self, symbol: str, capital: float = 100000):
        self.symbol = symbol
        self.capital = capital
        self.position = 0
        self.cash = capital
        self.trades = []

    def moving_average_crossover(self, data: pd.DataFrame,
                                  short_window: int = 50,
                                  long_window: int = 200) -> pd.Series:
        """Simple Moving Average Crossover Strategy"""
        data['SMA_short'] = data['close'].rolling(window=short_window).mean()
        data['SMA_long'] = data['close'].rolling(window=long_window).mean()

        # Generate signals
        data['signal'] = 0
        data.loc[data['SMA_short'] > data['SMA_long'], 'signal'] = 1
        data.loc[data['SMA_short'] < data['SMA_long'], 'signal'] = -1

        return data['signal']

    def mean_reversion(self, data: pd.DataFrame,
                       window: int = 20,
                       num_std: float = 2.0) -> pd.Series:
        """Mean Reversion Strategy using Bollinger Bands"""
        data['MA'] = data['close'].rolling(window=window).mean()
        data['STD'] = data['close'].rolling(window=window).std()
        data['upper_band'] = data['MA'] + (data['STD'] * num_std)
        data['lower_band'] = data['MA'] - (data['STD'] * num_std)

        # Generate signals
        data['signal'] = 0
        data.loc[data['close'] < data['lower_band'], 'signal'] = 1  # Buy
        data.loc[data['close'] > data['upper_band'], 'signal'] = -1  # Sell

        return data['signal']

    def momentum_strategy(self, data: pd.DataFrame, period: int = 14) -> pd.Series:
        """Momentum Strategy using RSI"""
        delta = data['close'].diff()
        gain = (delta.where(delta > 0, 0)).rolling(window=period).mean()
        loss = (-delta.where(delta < 0, 0)).rolling(window=period).mean()

        rs = gain / loss
        data['RSI'] = 100 - (100 / (1 + rs))

        # Generate signals
        data['signal'] = 0
        data.loc[data['RSI'] < 30, 'signal'] = 1  # Oversold - Buy
        data.loc[data['RSI'] > 70, 'signal'] = -1  # Overbought - Sell

        return data['signal']

class Backtester:
    def __init__(self, initial_capital: float = 100000):
        self.initial_capital = initial_capital
        self.capital = initial_capital
        self.position = 0
        self.trades = []

    def run(self, data: pd.DataFrame, signals: pd.Series) -> dict:
        """Run backtest on historical data"""
        portfolio_value = []

        for i in range(len(data)):
            if signals.iloc[i] == 1 and self.position == 0:  # Buy signal
                shares = self.capital // data['close'].iloc[i]
                cost = shares * data['close'].iloc[i]
                self.capital -= cost
                self.position = shares
                self.trades.append({
                    'type': 'BUY',
                    'price': data['close'].iloc[i],
                    'shares': shares,
                    'date': data.index[i]
                })

            elif signals.iloc[i] == -1 and self.position > 0:  # Sell signal
                proceeds = self.position * data['close'].iloc[i]
                self.capital += proceeds
                self.trades.append({
                    'type': 'SELL',
                    'price': data['close'].iloc[i],
                    'shares': self.position,
                    'date': data.index[i]
                })
                self.position = 0

            # Calculate portfolio value
            current_value = self.capital + (self.position * data['close'].iloc[i])
            portfolio_value.append(current_value)

        return self.calculate_metrics(portfolio_value, data)

    def calculate_metrics(self, portfolio_value: list, data: pd.DataFrame) -> dict:
        """Calculate performance metrics"""
        returns = pd.Series(portfolio_value).pct_change()

        total_return = (portfolio_value[-1] - self.initial_capital) / self.initial_capital
        sharpe_ratio = returns.mean() / returns.std() * np.sqrt(252)
        max_drawdown = self.calculate_max_drawdown(portfolio_value)

        return {
            'total_return': total_return,
            'sharpe_ratio': sharpe_ratio,
            'max_drawdown': max_drawdown,
            'total_trades': len(self.trades),
            'final_value': portfolio_value[-1]
        }

    def calculate_max_drawdown(self, portfolio_value: list) -> float:
        """Calculate maximum drawdown"""
        peak = portfolio_value[0]
        max_dd = 0

        for value in portfolio_value:
            if value > peak:
                peak = value
            dd = (peak - value) / peak
            if dd > max_dd:
                max_dd = dd

        return max_dd

Read the full file on GitHub · 437 lines

Changes

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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 Changed · +86 lines · +35 tokens per session 5a48a951ba20
  2. 7d ago First seen · 351 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 81c551400217

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trading-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (40 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 3,584 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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