How to set up a daily market check without paid APIs using Claude Trading Skills

Claude Trading Skills is a collection of Claude skills for individual investors. It packages market checks, position sizing, trade journaling and weekly reviews into ordered workflows you run in Claude Code or the Claude web app.

1. Clone the repository and install its locked dependencies. You need Python 3.11.5+, uv and git.

git clone https://github.com/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills.git
cd claude-trading-skills
uv sync --locked

1. Copy the skill folders you want into your personal skills folder ~/.claude/skills/ (or a project's .claude/skills/ to use them in one project only). These are the skills for the no-paid-API daily check. If you created ~/.claude/skills after Claude Code started, restart Claude Code.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R skills/trading-skills-navigator skills/market-breadth-analyzer skills/uptrend-analyzer skills/exposure-coach ~/.claude/skills/

1. Start by asking the Navigator for a path that fits your goal. Run this at the repository root and it returns a recommended workflow as JSON.

uv run python skills/trading-skills-navigator/scripts/recommend.py \
  --query "I want a 15-minute daily market check without paid API keys" \
  --no-api \
  --time-budget 15m \
  --experience beginner \
  --format json

If primary_workflow.id comes back as market-regime-daily, run market-breadth-analyzer, uptrend-analyzer and exposure-coach in that order. That path only downloads public CSVs, so it needs no FMP, FINVIZ Elite or Alpaca keys. In the Claude web app, download a .skill file from the releases and upload it under Customize > Skills.

It is not a buy/sell signal service or financial advice, and it never places orders. Some screeners need a paid data key such as FMP, and Claude Code is not included in the Claude Free plan. MIT licensed.