The 10 we liked out of 74 trading skills

The claude-trading-skills repo has 74 skills. Open it for the first time and your head spins. We looked at the list too, wondered "where do you even start?", and then grouped the whole thing.

We liked what the author wrote: the goal isn't handing decisions to AI, it's organising how you review the market, manage risk and learn from mistakes. It's written for busy long-term, ETF and dividend investors.

As usual, a note: we read the names and descriptions, but didn't run the skills.

As you can see, there's plenty on searching and reading the market, and little on risk and journaling. But we think ordinary people gain more from the latter. Our picks reflect that.

For looking at the market

1. market-breadth-analyzer. Scores market breadth from 0 to 100: is the index rising, or are many stocks actually going up? No API key needed.
2. sector-analyst. Analyses rotation between sectors and the market cycle. Also works without a key.
3. earnings-calendar. Shows upcoming reports and needs an FMP key. We have an article on earnings season too.

For checking a stock

1. us-stock-analysis. Looks at a company from every side: numbers, business quality, valuation, chart.
2. value-dividend-screener. Searches dividend stocks with clear limits: P/E under 20, P/B under 2, yield of at least 3%. This isn't a halal filter, so check the results separately.

For protecting your money

In our view this is the most valuable part:

1. position-sizer. Works out how many shares to buy in a trade based on risk.
2. pre-trade-discipline-gate. A checklist before you trade. It stops planless, oversized or "revenge" trades. Anyone who has tried to win it back right after a loss will understand.
3. drawdown-circuit-breaker. Looks at losing streaks and weekly or monthly loss limits and tells you whether taking new risk today is allowed.
4. portfolio-manager. Analyses your allocation and risk. It needs an Alpaca connection.

For learning

1. trader-memory-core. Tracks an idea from first thought to closed position and prepares a review at the end. You can't misremember later why you bought. We have an article on this habit: the trading journal.

What we left out on purpose

We skipped six for reasons visible in their names: options strategies, futures sizing, crypto regimes, pair trading, short planning and MetaTrader robots. They're either outside our focus or rely on shorting and similar practices, which many scholars consider impermissible. So we don't promote them.

Where to start

The README lays out a five-skill path that needs no paid data key and works with public CSVs and your own files. For a beginner that's plenty. There's no need to install everything; we haven't met anyone who uses 74 tools either.

For information only, not investment advice. This is a third-party project and we're not affiliated with it.