Jakeschincariol / trader-skill

# The Trader skill
11 Claude skills that copy the investors you trust, watch the news and Congress, size every trade to your budget, and never place an order without your yes.
Free, MIT, no signup, no API key. The tools are plain Python that read public
data: SEC EDGAR, the House Clerk, news feeds.
One reverse-engineers the investor you want to copy, straight from their 13F
filing. Another monitors breaking news on every stock you hold. One manages your
budget: every dollar sized, a cash buffer kept, no stock over your cap. And the
craziest one is the Pelosi skill: it reads the stock trades members of Congress
disclose, the minute the filing posts.
And no trade goes through until you say yes. Nothing in this pack can place an
order on its own. Paper trading is the default.
## Install
Paste this into Claude:
 [code] 
Or as a plugin, in Claude Code:
 [code] 
Claude Code namespaces plugin skills, so installed as a plugin they show up as
`/trader-skill:trader-copycat` and so on. Copy the folders instead if you want
plain `/trader-copycat`:
 [code] 
Project-local instead of global: copy the same folders into your repo's
`.claude/skills/`. No Claude Code at all? Paste any single `SKILL.md` at the
top of a chat and it runs as a mode. You lose the Python tools, but the method
works.
The tools need Python 3.8 or newer. Nothing to pip install. SEC asks every
script to identify itself: put your name and email in `trader/config.json`
(`"sec_user_agent": "Your Name you@example.com"`) or in the `SEC_USER_AGENT`
environment variable.
## The eleven
| command | job | what it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `/trader-copycat` | Reverse Engineer | Reads an investor's 13F-HR on SEC EDGAR and rebuilds their portfolio as weights you can copy, with what they bought, added, trimmed and sold since last quarter. |
| `/trader-news` | News Monitor | Watches headlines and SEC filings (8-Ks) for every stock you hold and flags what touches them. |
| `/trader-budget` | Budget Manager | Sizes every position to your budget, keeps a cash buffer and caps any one stock. |
| `/trader-pelosi` | Pelosi Tracker | Reads Congress's stock-trade disclosures (House PTRs) as soon as they post, turns each PDF into clean rows and alerts you once per new filing. |
| `/trader-analyst` | Earnings Analyst | Pulls each company's reported numbers from SEC XBRL (revenue, net income, diluted EPS, margins, growth) and its latest earnings release. |
| `/trader-screener` | Stock Screener | Screens companies against your own rules and ranks what passes. |
| `/trader-risk` | Risk Manager | Checks every proposed order against your limits and blocks anything over them. |
| `/trader-broker` | Order Executor | Turns an approved order into the exact ticket your brokerage connector receives, and records your yes. It never places anything itself. |
| `/trader-tax` | Tax Optimizer | Tracks cost-basis lots, gains and losses, tax-loss harvesting candidates and wash sales. |
| `/trader-alerts` | Price Alerts | Rings when