Skills · the professional's toolkit
Ask like a professional.
The questions that separate retail investors from professionals aren't harder to phrase — they're harder to answer well because you don't know which factors to check. A skill is a reusable answer template that carries a professional's checklist into a question you can run for any name, event, or macro release.
15 skills currently available across 10 categories and 6 asker archetypes. Live engine execution is in early access — request below.
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Move attribution
Free👤 ⚡ 💎 📊Why did this stock move today?
Rank the plausible causes of a single-name move with source citations and time-of-news markers.
Example triggers
- "why is <ticker> up/down"
- "what's happening with <ticker>"
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Historical analog
Core💎 🌐 📊 ⚡When did this pattern happen before?
Find the closest historical analogs to a market event and report what followed as a distribution — not an anecdote.
Example triggers
- "has this happened before"
- "historical parallels for <event>"
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Regulatory / legal
Core💎 🌐 ⚖️How have similar lawsuits / antitrust cases played out?
Trace how comparable regulatory / legal cases progressed and what remedies were ultimately imposed.
Example triggers
- "what happened in similar antitrust cases"
- "how long do these lawsuits take"
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Structural vs cyclical
Core💎 🌐 📊Is this change structural or cyclical?
Determine whether a change is a permanent re-rating (structural) or a swing that will mean-revert (cyclical).
Example triggers
- "is this the new normal"
- "will <thing> recover"
- "structural or cyclical"
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Risk & sizing
Core📊 ⚡ 💎How deep and how long — drawdown & recovery distribution
For an event class, get the historical distribution of max drawdown, duration, and time-to-recovery.
Example triggers
- "how far could it fall"
- "how long until recovery"
- "worst case for <ticker>"
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Positioning & flow
Core💎 📊 ⚡What did institutional investors do this quarter?
Parse the latest 13F filings to reveal who bought, who sold, and what that says about positioning.
Example triggers
- "who owns <ticker>"
- "what did <fund> buy"
- "berkshire 13f"
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Corporate actions
Free💎 ⚡ 👤What does a CEO / CFO / board change mean for the stock?
Read a management change: bull signal (talented new CEO), bear signal (CFO fleeing accounting), or noise (planned succession).
Example triggers
- "<CEO> steps down"
- "new CEO of <company>"
- "CFO resignation"
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Macro datapoint
Core🌐 ⚡ 📊 ⚖️How should the market read this macro release?
Decode a scheduled macro release (CPI, NFP, Fed, PMI, GDP) — headline vs composition vs policy repricing.
Example triggers
- "CPI came in at <X>"
- "Fed decision today"
- "NFP miss"
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Competitive landscape
Core⚡ 📊 💎Who else moves when this stock / event moves?
Map competitors, suppliers, customers, and substitutes — and rank the second-order plays.
Example triggers
- "who benefits from <event>"
- "who loses from <event>"
- "collateral impact of <X>"
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Behavioral
Core⚡ 📊 💎Is this news already priced in?
Determine whether the market has already absorbed the information — before you trade the news.
Example triggers
- "should I buy on this news"
- "is this priced in"
- "market didn't react — why"
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Risk & sizing
Premium⚡ 📊 💎 👤What would this trade have made — parameterized backtest
If I invested X at Y on Z and held N days (or with +a%/-b% rules), what would the historical P&L look like — for a specific date OR across similar events?
Example triggers
- "if I bought <ticker> today and held N days"
- "backtest this trade"
- "what would this strategy have made"
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Risk & sizing
Premium⚡ 📊Backtest with exit rules (take-profit / stop-loss / trailing)
Add take-profit, stop-loss, and trailing-stop rules to a backtest and measure how they reshape the return + risk distribution.
Example triggers
- "what if I stop out at -X%"
- "take profit at +X%"
- "trailing stop backtest"
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Risk & sizing
Premium📊 ⚡ 💎Event-driven backtest — apply rule to all historical instances
For any event class, run the same trade rule on every historical occurrence and report the P&L distribution — the workhorse of systematic strategy design.
Example triggers
- "backtest across all instances of <event>"
- "if I had bought every time <X> happened"
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Risk & sizing
Core📊 💎 ⚡ 🌐Risk-adjusted metrics — Sharpe, Sortino, Calmar, max DD
Beyond raw returns — compute the industry-standard metrics that make strategies comparable across regimes and asset classes.
Example triggers
- "sharpe ratio"
- "risk-adjusted return"
- "max drawdown"
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Risk & sizing
Premium📊 ⚡Walk-forward optimization — detect overfitting before it costs you
Split the sample into in-sample tuning and out-of-sample validation windows, walk forward through time — the gold standard for detecting overfit strategies.
Example triggers
- "is this strategy overfit"
- "walk forward validation"
- "out of sample test"
Try this skill → v1 · updated 2026-08-17
Roadmap
| Milestone | Skill count | ETA |
|---|---|---|
| Seed set | 15 | ✓ 2026-08-17 |
| Category coverage complete | 25 | 2026-09 |
| Cross-archetype depth (5+ per archetype) | 50 | 2026-10 |
| "300 questions a Jane Street trader could ask" | 150 | 2026-12 |
| Long-tail — Larry's 500 target | 500 | 2027 Q1 |
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