# Momentum Trading

> Trade strong directional price moves with momentum confirmation. Use when riding breakouts, trading trend continuation, or capitalizing on news-driven moves.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-ske-labs-agent-trading-skills-momentum-trading`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [SKE-Labs](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/ske-labs)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Finance & Payments](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/finance-and-payments)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [SKE-Labs](https://github.com/SKE-Labs)
- **Source:** https://github.com/SKE-Labs/agent-trading-skills/tree/main/skills/day-trading/momentum-trading

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-ske-labs-agent-trading-skills-momentum-trading
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Momentum Trading

Enter confirmed directional moves and ride them until momentum decays.

## Setup Conditions

### Regime Filter (Required)

```
get_indicators(indicator_code="dmi", symbol=, exchange=, interval=)
```

| ADX Value | Action |
| --- | --- |
| >30 | Ideal -- full size |
| 25-30 | Valid -- standard size |
| 20-25 | Weak -- reduced size only |
| 40

## Workflow

### 1. Check Regime

```
get_indicators(indicator_code="dmi", symbol=, exchange=, interval=)
```

ADX must be >25. If , exchange=, interval=, date=)
get_indicators(indicator_code="rsi", symbol=, exchange=, interval=)
get_indicators(indicator_code="macd", symbol=, exchange=, interval=)
get_indicators(indicator_code="mfi", symbol=, exchange=, interval=)
```

All three must align: RSI trending from 50 toward extreme, MACD histogram expanding, volume above average. Check for accelerating candle sizes and HH/HL (bullish) or LH/LL (bearish) structure.

### 3. Entry

**Breakout**: Enter on breakout candle close, stop below breakout level. **Pullback**: Wait for 38-50% retracement, enter on completion, stop below pullback low.

### 4. Report to Orchestrator

ADX value and trend direction, RSI/MACD/volume readings, entry type, exhaustion signals, stop and target levels.

## Key Rules

- NEVER take momentum trades when ADX < 20 -- signals whipsaw in ranging markets
- NEVER enter without volume confirmation -- price can move on low volume temporarily but real momentum requires above-average volume
- NEVER chase extended moves at extremes -- best entries are pullbacks within the trend
- NEVER hold through momentum reversal (MACD shrinking + volume dropping + smaller candles = exit)
- NEVER fight momentum direction -- trend persistence is more common than reversal

## Related Skills

- **breakout-trading** -- breakout momentum is a primary entry type
- **pullback-trading** -- retracement entries use pullback principles for timing

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [SKE-Labs](https://github.com/SKE-Labs)
- **Source:** [SKE-Labs/agent-trading-skills](https://github.com/SKE-Labs/agent-trading-skills)
- **License:** Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-ske-labs-agent-trading-skills-momentum-trading
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/ske-labs
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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