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Trader Price Alerts (trader-alerts)

Watches your tickers and rings once when a target, stop, percent move, or the NYSE opening bell hits.

UtilitiesIntermediate★ 910⑂ 176AI score 9/10Last updated: Oct 14, 2026

What it does

  • Registers and monitors alert rules: above, below/stop, percent move from the previous close, and the NYSE opening bell.
  • Fetches free delayed quotes (Yahoo chart JSON, Stooq CSV) one ticker at a time and writes trader/prices.json so sibling skills (budget, risk, tax, rebalance) share the same prices.
  • Ships an NYSE clock: 9:30–16:00 New York, weekends, 2026–2027 holidays, 1:00 p.m. early closes, DST handled in code.
  • Tracks fired state in trader/state/alerts.json so each rule rings once (with optional rearm).
  • Never places, cancels or changes an order and never claims quotes are real time.

Who it's for

  • Retail investors who want stops and price targets watched automatically.
  • Anyone tired of looking up whether the US market is open today.
  • Users of the wider trader-* skill pack who need one shared price file.
  • People comfortable running a python3 script and a cron/scheduled task.

Examples

  1. "Tell me if Apple drops under $320" → add --symbol AAPL --below 320, then check every 15 minutes during market hours.
  2. "Set a stop on BAC at 50" → add --symbol BAC --stop 50 --note "my stop"; it rings once and reports in a single line.
  3. "Is the market open?" → alerts.py clock prints open/closed plus the next open.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/trader-skill.git /tmp/trader-skill && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/trader-skill/trader-alerts ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and confirm Python 3 is available: python3 --version.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/trader-skill.git
  3. Copy the skill into place: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r trader-skill/trader-alerts ~/.claude/skills/
  4. In your working folder create a trader/ directory and copy alerts.example.json to trader/alerts.json as a starting ruleset.
  5. Restart Claude Code and try "is the market open?" or "alert me when AAPL hits 350".
  6. For continuous monitoring, schedule alerts.py check every 15 minutes during market hours via cron or a Claude scheduled task.
  7. If you connect a broker, keep API keys in environment variables or the Claude Desktop config — never paste them into chat, and leave order tools set to "Needs approval".
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT