# futures-position-sizer

Calculates contract-based futures position sizes from entry, stop-loss, and account risk budgets using verified specs. Runs completely offline via Python with no API keys.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2500 installs · ★ 3267
- Author: tradermonty
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/futures-position-sizer/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/futures-position-sizer

## What it does

The skill calculates the exact futures contract count for an account risk budget. It uses verified specifications like multiplier, tick size, and tick value across a core table of 23 markets, including ES, NQ, CL, and ZB. An equity share sizer fails here. Futures contracts use multipliers where a quarter-point move means $12.50 on ES but $5.00 on NQ, so reusing equity math creates silent sizing errors.

Execution runs in two modes. Mode A takes symbol, direction, entry, and stop directly from flags. Mode B ingests a `contrarian-setup-gate` report with a `READY_FOR_PLAN` status, extracting direction and invalidation level automatically. Entry is always required from the operator. For Treasury futures like ZB, the script rejects prices off the 32nds tick grid, exiting with code 2 if you enter 110.16 instead of 110.50.

Prerequisites are minimal: Python 3.9 or higher using the standard library. The script runs strictly offline without network access or API keys. If your contract sits outside the verified 23-symbol table, pass its multiplier, tick size, and currency manually via command flags.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --skill futures-position-sizer -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --skill futures-position-sizer -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --skill futures-position-sizer -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install tradermonty/claude-trading-skills futures-position-sizer
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/futures-position-sizer/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --skill futures-position-sizer -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --path skills/futures-position-sizer
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --skill futures-position-sizer -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/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/futures-position-sizer/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- calculate futures contract counts from stop distance and account risk
- verify symbol multiplier and tick values across 23 core markets
- ingest confirmed invalidation levels from `contrarian-setup-gate` reports
- catch fractional 32nds pricing mistakes on Treasury bond futures

## Example prompts
- Calculate position size for a LONG on `ES` with entry 5000.25 and stop 4980.00 using 100000 account size and 1% risk.
- Size the futures trade using gate report `reports/contrarian_setup_gate_B6_2026-07-15.json` and entry 1.3400.
- Show the verified contract specifications table for futures with `--list-specs`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: futures-position-sizer
description: Calculate contract-based futures position sizes from a direction, entry, and stop-loss, using verified per-symbol contract specs (multiplier, tick size, tick value). Use when the user asks how many futures contracts to trade, wants to size a futures position (ES, NQ, ZB, GC, CL, 6E/E6, VX, BT, ...), or is handing off a contrarian-setup-gate READY_FOR_PLAN direction/invalidation_level for sizing. Pure, offline calculation -- no API keys, no network.
---

# Futures Position Sizer

## Overview

Shapiro pipeline step 4: convert a direction, entry price, and stop-loss into a contract count, given an account risk budget and a verified contract spec (multiplier, tick size, tick value). This is a NEW, separate skill from `position-sizer` -- futures contracts are leveraged, multiplier-based instruments with wildly different dollar-per-point values (a $0.25 move is $12.50 on ES but $5.00 on NQ and $31.25 on ZB); reusing the equity share-count sizer for futures would silently produce wrong position sizes.

Two ways to size a trade:

- **Mode A (explicit)**: supply `--symbol --direction --entry --stop` directly.
- **Mode B (gate handoff)**: supply `--gate-json <contrarian-setup-gate report> --entry`. Direction and stop (the gate's `invalidation_level`) come from the gate's `READY_FOR_PLAN` report -- the sizer never sizes a setup the gate has not confirmed as READY, and never accepts an explicit `--direction`/`--stop` alongside `--gate-json` (the gate is authoritative when provided).

`--entry` is ALWAYS required, in both modes -- neither this skill nor the gate ever derives an entry price; the operator supplies it.

## When to Use

- After `contrarian-setup-gate` reaches `READY_FOR_PLAN` and you need a contract count for the confirmed direction and stop
- User asks "how many ES/NQ/GC/CL/... contracts should I trade?"
- User has a futures trade idea with a known entry and stop and wants risk-based sizing
- User wants to check the verified contract spec (multiplier/tick size/tick value) for a symbol before sizing (`--list-specs`)

## Prerequisites

- Python 3.9+, standard library only -- no API keys, fully offline
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