# Trade Price Alerts

Sets price, stop, target and market-open alerts that ring once each.

- Repository: https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill (4279 stars)
- Category: Business
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-20
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill --skill trader-alerts -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill --skill trader-alerts -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill --skill trader-alerts -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill --skill trader-alerts -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill`

## Description

Price Alerts. Rings when a price, a stop or the opening bell hits. Turns the trade plan into three alerts in one go (the stop, the target and "flat by close" at your flat-by time), plus above / below / stop / target levels, percent moves from the previous close, any time of day, and the NYSE opening bell, each ringing once so you are not spammed. Knows NYSE hours with the 2026 and 2027 holidays and 1:00 p.m. early closes, works out New York time itself, fetches free delayed quotes (Yahoo chart JSON, Stooq CSV) one ticker at a time, and writes trader/prices.json for sizing and the risk check. Use when the user says "alert me when", "tell me if TSLA hits", "watch my stop", "watch my trade", "remind me to close by 3:55", "is the market open", "when does the market open", "get me a price", or right after /trader-exit writes a plan.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# trader-alerts

Price Alerts watches the numbers so the user does not have to stare at a
chart. An alert is information, never an order: when a stop alert rings,
nothing is sold by this skill. With a bracket order the stop-loss and the
take-profit already sit at the broker and do the work; the alerts tell the
user what happened and when it is time to be flat.

`${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}` below is this skill's folder (where this SKILL.md lives).

```bash
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" clock                          # NYSE open or closed, next open
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" add --from-plan                # stop, target, flat by close from trader/plan.json
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" add --opening-bell
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" add --symbol TSLA --stop 358.32
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" add --symbol TSLA --target 370.04
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" add --at 15:55 --label "flat by close" --before-close
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" add --symbol KO --pct 3
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" check                          # exit 0 = something rang
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" quote TSLA --write             # -> trader/prices.json
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" quote --holdings --write       # portfolio + plan tickers
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" list
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/alerts.py" reset tsla-plan-stop
```

`--now "2026-10-19 15:55"` pins the clock (New York time); `--offline DIR`
reads saved quote files instead of the network.

## What it reads and writes

The rest: https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill/blob/HEAD/trader-alerts/SKILL.md