How to use Day Trader Skill: what you can do with it

3 use cases

• Scan thousands of stocks for opening-range breakouts

  Install the skills and have Claude scan the US universe for setups, then pull the news on the hits.

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  Install Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill, run the opening-range breakout scan at <time ET>, then run the news monitor on the top <n> hits. Give me a table of ticker, range, breakout size and the main headline, and do not plan or place any trade.

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• Replay a trade 10,000 times before you take it

  Set the stop and target first, then let the Time Machine show the honest odds from the stock's own history.

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  Using Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill, plan a trade on <ticker> with the stop at the opening range midpoint and a 1R target, run the Time Machine, size it for a <budget> account with a <max loss> max loss, and run the risk check. Report the odds and PASS or BLOCK, and do not send any order.

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• Paper trade with a human yes on every order

  Route approved orders to a paper brokerage account, with a risk check and your typed yes before anything goes out.

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  Set up Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill with a paper brokerage account only. For <ticker>, show me the order ticket after the risk check and wait for my yes. Confirm in writing that paper is true before anything is sent.

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Quick start with Day Trader Skill

1. Check you have what it needs: Claude Code (or any Claude chat, without the Python tools); Python 3.8 or newer; nothing to pip install; For SEC tools: your name and email in trader/config.json or SEC_USER_AGENT.
2. Open Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. In Claude Code run /plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill then /plugin install day-trader-skill@day-trader-skill
4. Or copy the folders: cp -r day-trader-skill/trader-* ~/.claude/skills/ after cloning
5. Run /trader-scanner, or the tool directly: python3 trader-scanner/scan.py orb --at 10:15
6. Run /trader-news on the hits, for example python3 trader-news/news.py --tickers TSLA --hours 12

These steps come from our top use case, Scan thousands of stocks for opening-range breakouts, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill

claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp

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About this repo

• Who it is forRetail traders and Claude Code users who want a structured, rules-first process for day trade ideas, with paper trading and hard risk checks.
• Why it is hot1.2k stars, launched 6 days ago, talked about in 2 AI sources we track
• LanguagePython
• Sourcegithub.com/Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Claude Code (or any Claude chat, without the Python tools)
• Python 3.8 or newer; nothing to pip install
• For SEC tools: your name and email in trader/config.json or SEC_USER_AGENT
• For orders only: a brokerage connector such as Alpaca's MCP server, paper account by default

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