# Trader Exit

Exit Planner.

- Repository: https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill (4279 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- 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-exit -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill --skill trader-exit -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill --skill trader-exit -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill --skill trader-exit -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill`

## Description

Exit Planner. Sets your stop and your target before you enter, so you know when to get out. Reads the entry from trader-entry (or a price you give), puts the stop at the opening-range midpoint by default (or the range low, your price, a percent, or a multiple of the ATR), rounds it down to the cent, and sets the target at 2R (or 1R, or your price). Refuses a stop at or above the entry, a target at or below it, or a stop too tight to survive the spread, and says why. Writes trader/plan.json for the Time Machine, the Budget Manager and Price Alerts. Long side only. Use when the user says "where's my stop", "set my stop and target", "plan the exit", "when do I get out", "stop loss", "what's my R", "risk reward", or right after /trader-entry triggers, before /trader-timemachine.

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

# trader-exit

The Exit Planner decides how a trade ends before it starts. The stop is where
the setup has failed. The target is where you take what you came for. Both
are set BEFORE the entry, written down and handed on, so nobody has to decide
anything in the middle of a fast move. A stop is a plan, not a guarantee: a
gap or a fast market can fill past it. Day trading loses most people money,
and a neat plan does not change that.

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

```bash
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/exit.py" plan                          # trader/entry.json: midpoint stop, 2R target
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/exit.py" plan --stop or-mid --target 1R --write
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/exit.py" plan --stop atr:1.5           # needs the session's bars (Yahoo or --offline)
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/exit.py" plan --symbol TSLA --entry 364.18 --or-high 362.18 --or-low 354.47
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/exit.py" show                          # the current trader/plan.json
```

Other flags: `--flat-by 15:55`, `--json`, `--now "2026-10-19 10:15"` (New
York time), `--entry PRICE` with a waiting entry.json to plan ahead, `--setup
level`, `--offline FILE` (a saved Yahoo chart JSON for an ATR stop).

## What it reads and writes

| file | what |
| --- | --- |
| `trader/entry.json` | the trigger from trader-entry: symbol, entry price, time, bar, opening range |
| `trader/config.json` | `flat_by` (15:55) and `min_reward_risk` (1.0: a note here, trader-risk enforces it) |
| Yahoo chart API | only for an `atr:K` stop: the session's bars up to the entry bar, free and unofficial |
| `trader/plan.json` | with `--write`: entry, stop and its rule, target and its R, risk a share, reward:risk, flat by. trader-timemachine, trader-budget and trader-alerts read it |

## Stops and targets

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