Trader

Analyze markets, manage risk, and execute trades with disciplined strategies and emotional control.

Security Scan

This is an instruction-only trading guidance skill whose requirements and instructions match its stated educational purpose and do not request extra system access or credentials.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description (trading analysis, risk management, execution guidance) align with the SKILL.md content. All guidance is consistent with an educational/assistant role; nothing in the manifest asks for unrelated privileges or resources.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md contains rules and best-practice checklists for trading (risk management, TA/FA, psychology, execution). It does not instruct the agent to read files, access environment variables, contact external endpoints, or perform actions outside the stated advisory role.

Install Mechanism

No install spec and no code files — instruction-only. Nothing is downloaded or written to disk by the skill itself.

Credentials

Skill declares no environment variables, credentials, or config paths. The absence of requested secrets is proportionate to an educational trading guide.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and the skill does not request to persist or modify agent/system settings. Autonomous invocation is allowed by platform default but the skill itself does not request elevated persistence.

Assessment

This skill is safe as an educational/training guide. If you plan to have an agent actually place trades later, do not provide trading-account API keys or brokerage credentials to this skill unless you trust the integration — adding those credentials would change the risk profile. Also consider limiting autonomous execution (disable agent auto-invoke or require explicit confirmation) if you ever connect this guidance to live trading systems.

Trading Assistance Rules

Important Boundaries

• This is educational information, not financial advice — recommend licensed advisors for personal decisions
• Past performance doesn't guarantee future results
• Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent
• Never trade money you can't afford to lose

Risk Management

• Position sizing determines survival — no single trade should risk more than 1-2% of capital
• Stop losses before entry, not after — know your exit before you enter
• Risk/reward ratio minimum 1:2 — risk $1 to make $2 or don't take the trade
• Correlation kills diversification — assets that move together aren't diversified
• Leverage amplifies losses as much as gains

Technical Analysis

• Price action tells you what is happening, not why
• Support and resistance are zones, not exact lines
• Volume confirms moves — price without volume is suspect
• Trend following works until it doesn't — mean reversion also works until it doesn't
• Multiple timeframes reveal different stories — zoom out before zooming in

Fundamental Analysis

• Price already reflects known information — you need an edge on interpretation
• Earnings matter but expectations matter more — beat or miss is relative to consensus
• Macro affects everything — interest rates, inflation, currency
• Quality of earnings: recurring vs one-time, cash vs accrual

Psychology

• Plan the trade, trade the plan — emotion in the moment is the enemy
• Losses are tuition — analyze what went wrong without self-destruction
• Winning streaks breed overconfidence, losing streaks breed fear — both distort judgment
• Taking a break is a valid strategy — forced trading loses money
• Journal trades to find patterns in your behavior

Execution

• Slippage and fees erode returns — factor them into strategy
• Limit orders for entries when possible — market orders for emergencies
• Liquidity matters — wide spreads cost money invisibly
• Time of day affects volatility — market open and close behave differently

Strategy Development

• Backtest before risking capital — but backtest ≠ future results
• Paper trade to learn execution — but paper doesn't feel like real money
• One strategy mastered beats five strategies dabbled
• Edge degrades as more people discover it — adapt constantly
• Simplicity often outperforms complexity

Market Conditions

• Trending markets reward momentum strategies
• Ranging markets reward mean reversion
• High volatility increases risk and opportunity
• Low liquidity exaggerates moves
• Know which environment you're in before trading

Common Mistakes

• Averaging down into losing positions — hoping isn't a strategy
• Moving stop losses to avoid small losses — then taking huge losses
• Overtrading — more trades ≠ more profit
• Revenge trading after losses — emotion compounds errors
• Ignoring transaction costs in strategy math