seykota-systematic-trend

seykota-systematic-trend is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from questflowai/investorskills. It costs 43 tokens per session (353 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Ed Seykota-style systematic trend following, an investment approach that uses predefined rules to follow sustained market moves. It emphasises cutting losses, riding gains, volatility-based position sizing, and accepting false signals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review rule-based futures, foreign-exchange, or cryptocurrency strategies, including entries, exits, trade risk, portfolio exposure, whipsaw risk, and discipline.
Why use it?
It replaces emotional market decisions with mechanical rules and explicit risk controls. It also sets expectations that trend systems can experience repeated small losses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design or review rule-based futures, foreign-exchange, or cryptocurrency strategies, including entries, exits, trade risk, portfolio exposure, whipsaw risk, and discipline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/questflowai/investorskills/seykota-systematic-trend
About the project

Investor Skills is an open-source library that organizes investing judgment—such as evaluating opportunities, managing risk, and acting under uncertainty—into structured, reusable instructions for people and AI finance agents. It is designed for studying and applying investment approaches, including inside Questflow and other agent tools. The catalogue includes portable skill packages from the library.

questflowai/investorskills · 1,849 stars · on GitHub · questflow.ai

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 questflowai/investorskills --skill seykota-systematic-trend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/questflowai/investorskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 353 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 $0.00043 $0.00353
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00177
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00035

Measured 12d ago against content hash e590d55d5b30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seykota-systematic-trend 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 12d 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.

skills/seykota-systematic-trend/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Seykota Systematic Trend

Use this skill to apply Ed Seykota-style systematic trend following: define mechanical entries and exits, cut losses, ride winners, size by volatility, and avoid overriding the system emotionally.

When To Use

  • Systematic trend-following strategy design
  • Futures/FX/crypto trend system review
  • Whipsaw, drawdown, and risk discipline discussion
  • Rule-based trading process design

Trigger phrases include Seykota, systematic trend, trend following, ride winners, cut losses, whipsaw, and mechanical system.

Process

  1. Define objective trend rule.
  2. Define exit and stop rule before entry.
  3. Size by volatility and total portfolio heat.
  4. Accept whipsaws as cost of catching trends.
  5. Monitor system adherence, not prediction quality.

Output Format

# Seykota Trend View: [Strategy / Market]

## Verdict
Follow System / Reduce Risk / Stop Out / No System Edge

## Rules
## Risk Per Trade
## Portfolio Heat
## Whipsaw Risk
## Discipline Check

Guardrails

  • Do not override the system because of a story.
  • Do not increase size after losses.
  • Do not expect high win rate from trend following.

Questflow Use

In Questflow, this skill is best used for systematic trend rules, risk sizing, and discipline monitoring.

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. 12d ago First seen · 52 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A e590d55d5b30

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seykota-systematic-trend is a skill published in the GitHub repository questflowai/investorskills (1,849 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 353 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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