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Write a long-form trading strategy document — thesis, entry triggers, exit rules, position sizing, hold horizon, kill criteria. No trade is fired. Saves a structured markdown note to ~/.blockrun/notes/. Use when the user wants to plan an approach before committing capital.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/BlockRunAI/Franklin/blob/HEAD/src/skills-bundled/trade-strategy/SKILL.md

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You are running inside Franklin on {{wallet_chain}}. This skill captures intent before action. The user wants a written strategy, not an executed trade. Result: a markdown file under ~/.blockrun/notes/ that the user (and future Franklin sessions) can reference when the actual trade fires via /trade-signal.

Workflow

  1. Clarify if needed. If the argument is just a ticker ("BTC") without a direction, ask one clarifying question about what the user is trying to do (long, short, range, event-driven).

  2. Gather supporting context. Use the /surf-market, /surf-chain, or /surf-social skills to pull data that informs the strategy. Each surfaces its own cost; mention what you spent at the end.

  3. Write the strategy doc. Use the Write tool to create:

    • Path: ~/.blockrun/notes/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>-strategy.md (replace ~ with the user's actual home dir; ask if you don't know it, or run Bash("echo $HOME") once)
    • Slug: short kebab-case identifier derived from the topic (e.g. btc-pre-halving-long)
    • Content template:
# Strategy — <Title>

**Date:** <YYYY-MM-DD>
**Author:** Franklin (skill: /trade-strategy)
**Status:** draft

## Thesis

<2–4 paragraphs: why this trade now. Cite the data sources you pulled.>

## Symbols & direction

- Primary: <SYMBOL> <long|short>
- Hedges (if any): <SYMBOL> <long|short>

## Entry triggers

- <Specific price levels, indicator readings, or events that must hold>
- <…>

## Position sizing

- Per-symbol notional cap: 
lt;N> (vs Franklin's $400 default)
- Conviction tier: <1–5> — justification: <…>

## Exit rules

- Take profit: <price | indicator | event>
- Stop loss: <price | indicator | event>
- Time stop: exit by <date / horizon> regardless

## Kill criteria

What invalidates the entire thesis? (Be specific — name a level, a metric, or a market regime change.)

## Evidence

- <source 1>
- <source 2>
- <indicator reading>

## Tags

`<momentum>` `<macro>` `<event>` (etc.)

## Linked trades

(Populated as `/trade-signal` invocations reference this doc.)

  1. Confirm the path. Report back to the user: "Strategy saved to <path>. Open it with your editor or pull it into your next /trade-signal call as context. Discipline score on the strategy is captured when the first trade fires."

  2. Do not call TradingOpenPosition. This skill is plan-only. The user fires the trade separately via /trade-signal when ready.

Anti-patterns

  • Skipping kill criteria. Every strategy has them; "I'll know when to exit" is not a strategy.
  • Position sizing without conviction-justified caps. A conviction-2 strategy that loads the full $400 cap is theater.
  • Writing a strategy doc and immediately firing a trade. The point of separating the two is to force a pause. If the user wants both, run /trade-strategy first, then /trade-signal referencing the saved file.

The user said

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