turtle-trading

turtle-trading is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from questflowai/investorskills. It costs 40 tokens per session (325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rules-based trend-following method known as Turtle Trading, based on Richard Dennis's breakout system. It uses price-channel breakouts, volatility-based sizing, stop levels, additions to winning positions, and portfolio risk limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review or plan breakout systems for futures, foreign exchange, cryptocurrency, or stocks, including ATR-based position sizing, pyramiding, stops, and portfolio heat.
Why use it?
It replaces discretionary trading decisions with defined entry, sizing, risk, and exit rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps review or plan breakout systems for futures, foreign exchange, cryptocurrency, or stocks, including ATR-based position sizing, pyramiding, stops, and portfolio heat.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/questflowai/investorskills/turtle-trading
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 · 1,845 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 turtle-trading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/questflowai/investorskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 325 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 $0.00040 $0.00325
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9d0d1059c190, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

turtle-trading 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 10d 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/turtle-trading/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Turtle Trading

Use this skill to apply Turtle-style systematic breakout trading: buy/sell breakouts, size by ATR, add by N units, control portfolio heat, and follow rules without discretion.

When To Use

  • Donchian breakout strategy review
  • ATR/N-unit position sizing
  • Rule-based futures, FX, crypto, or stock trend system
  • Portfolio heat and pyramiding plan

Trigger phrases include Turtles, Richard Dennis, Donchian, ATR, N unit, 20-day breakout, 55-day breakout, and systematic breakout.

Process

  1. Define breakout system and lookback.
  2. Calculate ATR/N risk unit.
  3. Define initial stop and add levels.
  4. Limit portfolio heat and correlated markets.
  5. Exit by system rule, not opinion.

Output Format

# Turtle View: [Market / System]

## Verdict
Enter / Add / Hold / Exit / No Signal

## Breakout Rule
## N / ATR
## Unit Size
## Stop
## Portfolio Heat

Guardrails

  • Do not use discretionary excuses to skip rules.
  • Do not exceed heat limits.
  • Do not average down.

Questflow Use

In Questflow, this skill is best used as a rule-based trend-following execution template.

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. 10d ago First seen · 52 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 9d0d1059c190

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turtle-trading is a skill published in the GitHub repository questflowai/investorskills (1,845 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 325 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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