breakout-trade-planner

breakout-trade-planner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tradermonty/claude-trading-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (999 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A trade-planning tool for stocks that have been selected by a VCP screener. VCP, or Volatility Contraction Pattern, is a chart pattern based on progressively smaller price swings before a possible breakout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate entries, stops, targets, position sizes, portfolio heat, and Alpaca-compatible bracket orders from VCP screener JSON.
Why use it?
It turns screener results into risk-aware plans while accounting for position size, worst-case entry prices, and total portfolio risk. It can also prepare order templates for Alpaca, a brokerage API.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 2.8krepo +32 today A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 77 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to calculate entries, stops, targets, position sizes, portfolio heat, and Alpaca-compatible bracket orders from VCP screener JSON.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/breakout-trade-planner
About the project

Claude Trading Skills is a collection of Claude Code workflows for individual investors who want structured market analysis, charting, economic-calendar review, screening, trade planning, journaling, and risk management. It is designed for people using long-term investing, ETFs, dividend stocks, and disciplined swing trading, and the catalogue entries package these workflows as skills, agents, commands, settings, and instructions.

tradermonty/claude-trading-skills · 2,813 stars · on GitHub · tradermonty.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --skill breakout-trade-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 999 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 13 Apr 2026
  • Snyk warn 13 Apr 2026
  • 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 $0.00077 $0.00999
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00500
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00100

Measured 13d ago against content hash cc819f88031b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

breakout-trade-planner 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 9 executable files (scripts/_market_calendar.py, scripts/order_builder.py, scripts/plan_breakout_trades.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

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/breakout-trade-planner/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Breakout Trade Planner

Generate trade plans from VCP screener output following Mark Minervini's breakout methodology. Calculate position sizes using worst-case entry prices, enforce portfolio risk limits, and output Alpaca API-compatible order templates.

When to Use

  • User has VCP screener JSON output and wants trade plans
  • User asks for breakout entry/stop/target calculation
  • User wants Alpaca order templates for VCP breakout candidates
  • User needs position sizing with portfolio heat management

Prerequisites

  • VCP screener JSON output with schema_version: "1.0"
  • No API keys required (works with local JSON files)
  • No external skill dependencies (position sizing is built-in)

Workflow

Step 1: Generate Trade Plans

Run the planner with VCP screener output:

python3 skills/breakout-trade-planner/scripts/plan_breakout_trades.py \
  --input reports/vcp_screener_YYYY-MM-DD.json \
  --account-size 100000 \
  --risk-pct 0.5 \
  --output-dir reports/

Step 2: Review Output

Read the generated JSON and Markdown reports. Present:

  1. Actionable Orders — Pre-breakout candidates with order templates
  2. Revalidation — Breakout-state candidates needing live confirmation
  3. Watchlist — Developing VCP candidates to monitor
  4. Rejected/Deferred/Constrained — Candidates filtered by Gate or portfolio limits

Step 3: Explain Trade Plans

For each actionable order, explain:

  • Entry levels (signal vs worst-case) and stop-loss placement
  • R-multiple targets and reward-risk ratio
  • Two execution modes: pre_place (stop-limit) vs post_confirm (limit after 5min confirmation)
  • Portfolio risk contribution and cumulative heat
  • Broker and intraday constraints: these templates are planning artifacts, not broker permission. If the plan could create same-day round trips or use margin, confirm the user's broker-specific intraday/day-trading controls. FINRA replaced the old pattern-day-trader day-count and $25,000 minimum-equity requirements with intraday margin standards effective 2026-06-04, with broker phase-in allowed through 2027-10-20.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 13d ago First seen · 97 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A cc819f88031b

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breakout-trade-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository tradermonty/claude-trading-skills (2,813 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 999 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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