market-news-analyst

This skill should be used when analyzing recent market-moving news events and their impact on equity markets and commodities. Use this skill when the user requests analysis of major financial news from the past 10 days, wants to understand market reactions to monetary policy decisions (FOMC, ECB, BOJ), needs assessment of geopolitical events' impact on commodities, or requires comprehensive review of earnings announcements from mega-cap stocks. The skill automatically collects news using WebSearch/WebFetch tools and produces impact-ranked analysis reports. All analysis thinking and output are conducted in English.

Quality

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is well-structured with a clear 6-step workflow and genuine, well-signaled reference files, but it is heavily over-written and inlines large amounts of domain knowledge and report scaffolding that Claude already understands or that belongs in references.

Suggestions

Move the detailed price-impact taxonomies, breadth/forward-multiplier tables, and the full report Markdown template into a reference file, keeping SKILL.md as a lean overview that points to them.

Trim sections that restate general financial knowledge (multi-asset response checklists, commodity deep-dive explanations, common-pitfall definitions) to assume Claude's competence and cut token usage.

Add explicit validation checkpoints to the workflow (e.g., verify each collected item has a publication date within the 10-day window, and confirm reference files loaded match the news types found) so the sequence has feedback loops.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The ~715-line body re-explains domain knowledge Claude already has (e.g., extended market-reaction taxonomy, multi-asset response checklists, commodity deep-dive sections) and pads the report template heavily, making it noticeably verbose.	2 / 5
Actionability	It provides concrete search query strings, named reference files, a scoring formula, and a full report template, but most guidance is instructional rather than executable code/commands; some specifics (e.g., exact impact thresholds) are useful but gaps remain.	3 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear 6-step sequence exists, but validation/checkpoints are implicit (e.g., 'Filtering Criteria', 'Impact Score >5' threshold) rather than explicit feedback loops, and no verification step confirms news freshness or data completeness.	3 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	The four reference files exist and are clearly signaled and loaded conditionally by news type, with the body acting as an overview; minor organization gaps remain because large amounts of reference-style detail (impact taxonomies, report templates) are inlined rather than split out.	4 / 5
	Total	12 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is specific, trigger-rich, and explicitly covers both what the skill does and when to use it, using appropriate third-person voice. It is a strong, well-scoped description with only minor overlap risk.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists several concrete actions ('analyzing recent market-moving news', 'collects news using WebSearch/WebFetch tools', 'produces impact-ranked analysis reports') with only minor gaps in coverage; not quite the comprehensive multi-action list of a 5.	4 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both what ('analyzing recent market-moving news events and their impact on equity markets and commodities') and when ('Use this skill when the user requests analysis of major financial news from the past 10 days...'), with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Comprehensive natural-language triggers users would actually say: 'FOMC, ECB, BOJ', 'earnings announcements from mega-cap stocks', 'market reactions to monetary policy decisions', plus concrete example requests covering synonyms.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Clear niche (market-news analysis ranked by impact with a specific 10-day window and named asset classes); minor overlap risk with general news or finance skills, but distinct triggers keep it mostly distinguishable.	4 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

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Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
skill_md_line_count	SKILL.md is long (715 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: tradermonty/claude-trading-skills
Path: examples/weekly-trade-strategy/.claude/skills/market-news-analyst/SKILL.md
Commit: 3930d34

Reviewed: 5 days ago

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