# risk-management

A skill that sets portfolio risk rules for crypto trading: drawdown limits, daily and weekly loss stops, concentration caps and automated circuit breakers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 631 installs · ★ 443
- Author: agiprolabs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/risk-management/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-03
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/agiprolabs-risk-management

## What it does

The skill lays out a priority order: survival of the account first, capital preservation second, growth last. Breaking that order is called the main cause of blown-up accounts. Then come the numbers — max drawdown from equity peak, daily loss limit, weekly loss limit, caps on a single token and a single strategy.

Inside you get threshold tables by account type, a drawdown response framework, and circuit breakers split by time, loss streaks, volatility and self-assessed emotional state. A separate section covers crypto-specific risks: smart contracts, rug pulls, bridges and custody, MEV and slippage on Solana DEX trades. Python functions for VaR, expected shortfall and max drawdown are included.

The skill leans on reference files under `references/` — `drawdown_management.md`, `exposure_limits.md`, `circuit_breakers.md`. Without them some tables lose their detail, so check they landed in the install. Treat thresholds like -15% or -20% as a frame, not as settings for your account; plug in your own.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill risk-management -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/risk-management/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/risk-management/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill risk-management -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/risk-management/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill risk-management -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/risk-management/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills risk-management
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/risk-management/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill risk-management -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --path skills/risk-management
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/risk-management/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill risk-management -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/risk-management/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- keep an account alive through a losing streak
- work out the gain needed to recover from a drawdown
- cap how much one token or one strategy can take of the portfolio
- stop trading once the daily or weekly loss limit is hit
- estimate VaR and expected shortfall from historical returns

## Example prompts
- calculate max drawdown for this equity curve
- what are the concentration limits for small-cap tokens?
- check my portfolio for meme token correlation

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: risk-management
description: Portfolio-level risk controls, drawdown management, exposure limits, and circuit breakers for crypto trading
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# Risk Management

Portfolio-level risk controls for crypto and Solana trading. This skill provides frameworks for drawdown management, exposure limits, circuit breakers, and crypto-specific risk considerations.

## Risk Management Hierarchy

Every decision must respect this priority order:

1. **Survival** — Never risk account ruin. No single trade, day, or week should threaten your ability to continue trading.
2. **Capital preservation** — Protect what you have. Losses compound geometrically; recovery requires outsized gains.
3. **Growth** — Only after survival and preservation are secured, pursue returns.

Violating this hierarchy (chasing growth at the expense of survival) is the primary cause of account blowups.

## Portfolio-Level Controls

### 1. Maximum Drawdown Limits

Halt trading when portfolio drawdown from equity peak reaches a threshold:

| Account Type | Max Drawdown | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Conservative | -15% | Full stop, review all strategies |
| Moderate | -20% | Full stop, reduce to minimum size on recovery |
| Aggressive | -25% | Full stop, mandatory cooling period |

Recovery math makes this critical: a -20% drawdown requires +25% to recover. A -50% drawdown requires +100%. See `references/drawdown_management.md` for the full recovery table.

### 2. Daily Loss Limits

Stop opening new positions after daily P&L (realized + unrealized) hits:

- **Conservative**: -3% of account
- **Moderate**: -4% of account
- **Aggressive**: -5% of account

Reset at midnight UTC. Three consecutive days hitting the daily limit triggers a weekly halt.

### 3. Weekly Loss Limits

Reduce size or halt after weekly P&L reaches:

- **Reduce size by 50%**: -5% weekly loss
- **Minimum size only**: -7% weekly loss
- **Full halt**: -10% weekly loss

### 4. Concentration Limits

Maximum allocation to any single dimension:

| Dimension | Max Concentration |
|---|---|
| Single token (blue chip) | 10% of account |
| Single token (mid-cap) | 5% |
| Single token (small-cap) | 2% |
| Single token (PumpFun/micro) | 0.5% |
| Single sector/narrative | 30% |
| Single strategy | 40% |

### 5. Exposure Limits

Total deployed capital constraints:

- **Normal conditions**: 50–80% deployed, 20–50% cash reserve
- **Elevated risk**: 30–50% deployed
- **Drawdown >10%**: 20–30% deployed
- **Max concurrent positions**: 5–10 depending on account size

### 6. Correlation Management
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