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trader-budget

Budget Manager. Sizes every position to your budget and your max loss per trade. Reads the trade plan from trader-exit (entry, stop, target), finds the whole shares that fit inside four limits (max loss per trade, position cap, max order, cash after your buffer), says which limit decided it, and writes ONE bracket order (entry, stop-loss, take-profit) to trader/orders.json in the exact shape of Alpaca's place_stock_order. A stop too far away for your max loss is a plain refusal, not a smaller order. Nothing is placed. Use when the user says "how many shares", "size this trade", "how much should I buy", "I have $5,000", "I only want to risk $50 a trade", "set my rules", "keep 10% in cash", or after /trader-exit writes a plan.

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# trader-budget

The Budget Manager turns a plan ("buy TSLA at 364.18, stop 358.32") into an
exact order ("buy 8 shares"), inside rules the user sets once. The stop
decides the size: the further away the stop, the fewer shares. It writes a
proposal only. trader-risk checks it and trader-broker asks the user yes or
no. Day trading loses most people money. Sizing to a max loss keeps each
loss small; it does not make a trade win.

`${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}` below is this skill's folder (where this SKILL.md lives).

```bash
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/size.py"                        # trader/plan.json + trader/config.json
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/size.py" --write                # write trader/orders.json
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