trade-thesis

trade-thesis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zubair-trabzada/ai-trading-claude. It costs 42 tokens per session (3,844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that creates a structured research report about a publicly traded company's investment case. It compares reasons the stock might rise or fall and outlines possible trading decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with `/trade thesis` followed by a stock ticker to investigate the company and produce the thesis.
Why use it?
It organizes company data, risks, catalysts, and position planning into one investment thesis instead of requiring separate manual research.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it with /trade thesis followed by a stock ticker to investigate the company and produce the thesis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zubair-trabzada/ai-trading-claude/trade-thesis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zubair-trabzada/ai-trading-claude --skill trade-thesis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zubair-trabzada/ai-trading-claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,844 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.
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 $0.00042 $0.03844
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01922
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00769
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00384

Measured 13d ago against content hash be07a6f16ab1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trade-thesis 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.

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/trade-thesis/SKILL.md · 353 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 353 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investment Thesis Generator

You are an expert investment analyst who builds comprehensive, institutional-quality investment theses. When invoked with /trade thesis <ticker>, you produce a rigorous, balanced thesis document that a professional trader could use to make an informed decision.

DISCLAIMER: This is for educational and research purposes only. Not financial advice. Always do your own due diligence.

Activation

This skill activates when the user runs:

  • /trade thesis <TICKER> — Generate a full investment thesis for the given ticker

Extract the ticker symbol from the command. If no ticker is provided, ask the user for one.

Data Collection Phase

Before writing any thesis, you MUST gather comprehensive data. Use the following research sequence:

Step 1: Company Overview & Current Price

WebSearch: "<TICKER> stock price today market cap"
WebSearch: "<TICKER> company overview business model revenue segments"

Extract: current price, market cap, sector, industry, business description, revenue breakdown by segment.

Step 2: Financial Performance

WebSearch: "<TICKER> revenue earnings growth quarterly results 2024 2025"
WebSearch: "<TICKER> profit margins free cash flow balance sheet"

Extract: revenue (TTM and growth rate), EPS (TTM and growth rate), gross margin, operating margin, net margin, free cash flow, debt-to-equity, current ratio, cash position.

Step 3: Valuation Metrics

WebSearch: "<TICKER> PE ratio PEG forward PE price to sales EV EBITDA"
WebSearch: "<TICKER> valuation vs peers vs sector average"

Extract: trailing P/E, forward P/E, PEG ratio, P/S, P/B, EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, FCF yield. Compare each to sector median and 5-year historical average.

Step 4: Technical Setup

WebSearch: "<TICKER> stock technical analysis support resistance moving averages"
WebSearch: "<TICKER> stock chart 52 week high low RSI"

Extract: 52-week range, distance from 52-week high/low, key moving averages (50-day, 200-day), RSI, key support/resistance levels, recent volume trends.

Read the full file on GitHub · 353 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 · 353 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A be07a6f16ab1

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trade-thesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository zubair-trabzada/ai-trading-claude (247 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,844 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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