Trade Hypothesis Ideator

baggat236/trade-hypothesis-ideator

> Generate falsifiable trade strategy hypotheses from market data, trade logs, and journal snippets. Use when you have a structured input bundle and want ranked hypothesis cards with experiment designs, kill criteria, and optional strategy.yaml export compatible with edge-finder-candidate/v1.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/BaggaT236/AI-Trading-Skills --skill trade-hypothesis-ideator

What comes with it

90 425 bytes besides the instruction

examples/example_input.json

examples/example_output.json

examples/sample_input.json

prompts/critique_prompt_template.md

prompts/developer_prompt_template.md

prompts/system_prompt.md

references/evidence_quality_guide.md

references/hypothesis_types.md

schemas/hypothesis_card.schema.json

schemas/input_bundle.schema.json

schemas/output_bundle.schema.json

schemas/raw_hypotheses.schema.json

scripts/pipeline/__init__.py

scripts/pipeline/evidence_extractor.py

scripts/pipeline/format_output.py

scripts/pipeline/normalize.py

scripts/pipeline/ranking.py

scripts/pipeline/strategy_exporter.py

scripts/run_hypothesis_ideator.py

scripts/tests/conftest.py

scripts/tests/test_evidence_extractor.py

scripts/tests/test_format_output.py

scripts/tests/test_guardrails.py

scripts/tests/test_normalize.py

scripts/tests/test_ranking.py

scripts/tests/test_strategy_exporter.py

The instruction itself

7 sections, as written by the author

Trade Hypothesis Ideator

Generate 1-5 structured hypothesis cards from a normalized input bundle, critique and rank them, then optionally export pursue cards into strategy.yaml + metadata.json artifacts.

When to Use

After gathering trade logs, journal entries, or market observations that suggest a potential edge
When you have a structured input bundle (JSON) with evidence snippets and want falsifiable hypotheses
To bridge qualitative observations into quantitative experiment designs
Before committing capital to validate a new strategy idea with kill criteria

Prerequisites

Input JSON bundle with one or more of: trade_log, journal_snippets, market_data, observations
Python 3.9+ with pyyaml installed
No external API keys required (pure calculation skill)

Workflow

Receive input JSON bundle.
Run pass 1 normalization + evidence extraction.
Generate hypotheses with prompts:
prompts/system_prompt.md
prompts/developer_prompt_template.md (inject {{evidence_summary}})
Critique hypotheses with prompts/critique_prompt_template.md.
Run pass 2 ranking + output formatting + guardrails.
Optionally export pursue hypotheses via Step H strategy exporter.

Scripts

Pass 1 (evidence summary):

python3 skills/trade-hypothesis-ideator/scripts/run_hypothesis_ideator.py \
  --input skills/trade-hypothesis-ideator/examples/example_input.json \
  --output-dir reports/

Pass 2 (rank + output + optional export):

python3 skills/trade-hypothesis-ideator/scripts/run_hypothesis_ideator.py \
  --input skills/trade-hypothesis-ideator/examples/example_input.json \
  --hypotheses reports/raw_hypotheses.json \
  --output-dir reports/ \
  --export-strategies

Output

hypothesis_cards_<date>.json — Ranked hypothesis cards with verdicts (pursue, revise, discard)
hypothesis_cards_<date>.md — Human-readable summary with experiment designs and kill criteria
strategy_<hypothesis_id>.yaml — (Optional) Edge-finder-compatible strategy export for pursue cards
metadata_<hypothesis_id>.json — (Optional) Provenance metadata for exported strategies

Resources

references/hypothesis_types.md — Taxonomy of hypothesis patterns (mean-reversion, momentum, event-driven, etc.)
references/evidence_quality_guide.md — Criteria for rating evidence strength and sample size requirements

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