The News Monitor. Watches breaking market news and SEC filings for the stocks you hold (or are about to copy): Yahoo Finance headlines per ticker and each company's 8-K filings on SEC EDGAR (earnings, CEO changes, deals, restatements, bankruptcy). Shows only what is new since the last check, newest first, flags what touches your positions and why it matters, and never repeats an item. Use when the user says "any news on my stocks", "what's happening with Apple", "monitor the news", "watch my portfolio", "did anything break", "check the 8-Ks", or "morning briefing".
Use trader-news to check AAPL news and 8-K filings from the past 24 hours. Read the important source stories or filings before summarizing them, and give a short brief with source links. Flag earnings, legal, and risk items; identify anything you cannot read. If nothing is new, say so.
Required inputs
Ticker: AAPL; lookback: 24 hours.
Python 3.8 or newer.
Configure your real name and email through sec_user_agent in trader/config.json or SEC_USER_AGENT to include SEC filings; without it, only headlines run.
Suggested template by Skill Leaderboard, grounded in the linked source. Task evidence ↗
SKILL.md
name: trader-newsdescription: >- The News Monitor. Watches breaking market news and SEC filings for the stocks you hold (or are about to copy): Yahoo Finance headlines per ticker and each company's 8-K filings on SEC EDGAR (earnings, CEO changes, deals, restatements, bankruptcy). Shows only what is new since the last check, newest first, flags what touches your positions and why it matters, and never repeats an item. Use when the user says "any news on my stocks", "what's happening with Apple", "monitor the news", "watch my portfolio", "did anything break", "check the 8-Ks", or "morning briefing".argument-hint: "[tickers]"
trader-news
A position you hold can change in a minute: an earnings miss, a CEO leaving,
a lawsuit, a restatement. This skill reads the two feeds that carry those
first for each of your stocks and tells you only what is new.
Tool in this folder (standard library Python, no keys):
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/news.py" --help
What it reads and writes
Your tickers: --tickers, else trader/portfolio.json positions, else
trader/targets.json weights (so it works right after /trader-copycat).
Headlines: Yahoo Finance's public headline RSS, one feed per ticker
(https://feeds.finance.yahoo.com/rss/2.0/headline?s=AAPL®ion=US&lang=en-US).
Filings: SEC EDGAR's company Atom feed, 8-K by default (--forms 8-K,10-Q
for more). Needs the SEC User-Agent from trader/config.json
(sec_user_agent) or SEC_USER_AGENT. Without it, filings are skipped with
a note and headlines still run.
Writes trader/state/news.json: what has been shown (kept 30 days) and the
CIK for each ticker, so every item appears once.
The rules
Headlines are leads, not facts. Before telling the user something
happened, open the story or the filing and read it. Quote the source and
link it. Never summarise a paywalled story you could not read: say it is
paywalled.
Filings beat headlines. If an 8-K and a headline disagree, the 8-K is
what the company told the SEC.
Say what it touches. Every item lists the tickers it touches (the feed
it came from plus any of your tickers or company names it mentions) and
tags (earnings, analyst, legal, deal, capital, people, risk). Filings marked
! carry an important 8-K item: earnings results (2.02), an officer change
(5.02), an impairment (2.06), a delisting notice (3.01), past financials no
longer reliable (4.02), bankruptcy (1.03) or a cyber incident (1.05).
No predictions. Report what was published. Never say what the stock
will do next.
Exit code 1 means nothing new. --all shows items already seen,
--json gives everything machine-readable, --dry-run leaves the state
alone.
Read the items that matter: every ! filing, every item tagged earnings,
legal or risk, and anything touching the biggest positions first.
Write a short brief: per ticker, what happened, the source and link, and
one line on why it matters to this portfolio (its weight, from
trader/targets.json or trader/portfolio.json).
If a story might change the plan (an 8-K 4.02 restatement, a delisting
notice), say so and suggest /trader-analyst for the numbers or
/trader-risk to recheck pending orders. Never act on a headline alone.
To run it on a schedule, use /loop 30m /trader-news during market hours or
a scheduled task each morning.
Example: the reel's portfolio
The user copied Berkshire's top 5 (AAPL, AXP, GOOGL, KO, BAC). On Tuesday
2026-10-13 the check shows Apple headlines first ("Apple Introduces HomeView
Smart Home Hub, Other Gadgets", "Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring
records in Apple trade secrets case", tagged legal), Coca-Cola dividend
pieces, and from SEC: Apple's 8-K of 2026-07-30 (item 2.02, earnings results)
and Coca-Cola's of 2026-07-28 (2.02). Brief: "Apple (your biggest position,
30.7%) launched a $299 smart home hub; a court ruling in its trade secrets
case against OpenAI. No new filings from your five companies this week." When
a ticker has no news, say so rather than padding the brief.
What it never does
Never invents or embellishes a story, a quote or a number.
Never trades on news, and never tells the user to buy or sell because of a
headline.
Never hammers a server: one request per feed per ticker, a pause between
SEC calls, and SEC's 10 requests a second limit stays far away.
Safety
Education and tooling, not financial advice. This skill only reads and
reports. Nothing places an order except /trader-broker, after
/trader-risk passes and the user types an explicit yes for that order.
trader-news by Jakeschincariol · The Skill Leaderboard