# post-trade-compliance

Guides the design of post-trade monitoring: alert logic, investigation workflow, allocation fairness checks and reporting triggers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 658 installs · ★ 218
- Author: JoelLewis
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/trading-operations/skills/post-trade-compliance/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/post-trade-compliance

## What it does

This skill lays out how post-trade surveillance works and tells the agent what to build into alert code. It covers specific patterns: churning, front-running, cherry-picking, layering, spoofing, wash trading, marking the close. Each one comes with the data it needs and the logic that fires it.

Monitoring is split by time horizon. Front-running and marking the close need same-day review, block allocation fairness lands on the next day, while churning and MNPI correlations only surface over a window of months. The skill walks through the path from alert to escalation, and why every closed case needs documentation — examiners read closed alerts too.

Thresholds get their own section: turnover ratio above 6 and cost-to-equity above 20% are treated as presumptively excessive. There is material on SAR, blue sheet and CAT triggers, plus notes on tuning thresholds to cut false positives. One caveat: the text cuts off partway through insider trading, so that pattern is not covered in full.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill post-trade-compliance -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill post-trade-compliance -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill post-trade-compliance -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JoelLewis/finance_skills post-trade-compliance
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/post-trade-compliance/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill post-trade-compliance -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JoelLewis/finance_skills --path plugins/trading-operations/skills/post-trade-compliance
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JoelLewis/finance_skills --skill post-trade-compliance -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/JoelLewis/finance_skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/trading-operations/skills/post-trade-compliance/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- write alert logic for churning and front-running
- verify allocation fairness across accounts in a block trade
- build an escalation path from alert to regulatory filing
- correlate trading activity with MNPI events
- tune surveillance thresholds to reduce false positives

## Example prompts
- Draft front-running alert logic — list the required fields and the review horizon
- Design an investigation workflow with escalation and case documentation
- Check a block trade for cherry-picking and compute return dispersion by account

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: post-trade-compliance
description: "Guide post-trade compliance monitoring and trade surveillance system design. Use when building alert logic to detect churning, front-running, cherry-picking, layering, spoofing, wash trading, or marking the close, implementing post-trade best execution review, evaluating allocation fairness with pro-rata verification or dispersion analysis, designing exception-based monitoring workflows with escalation paths, correlating trading with MNPI events for insider trading detection, building personal trading surveillance for preclearance and blackout enforcement, determining SAR or blue sheet or CAT reporting triggers, or tuning surveillance thresholds to reduce false positives. Also covers turnover ratios, cost-to-equity ratios, and investigation case management."
---

# Post-Trade Compliance

## Core Concepts

### Trade Surveillance Framework
Trade surveillance is the systematic, ongoing monitoring of executed transactions to detect potential violations of securities laws, firm policies, and regulatory rules. A surveillance program operates across multiple time horizons:

- **T+0 (same-day) monitoring** — Real-time or end-of-day reviews targeting time-sensitive patterns such as front-running (trading ahead of a customer block order), late trading (mutual fund orders placed after the 4:00 p.m. ET NAV pricing cutoff), and marking the close (orders placed to influence the closing price). T+0 alerts require immediate investigation because the regulatory harm is ongoing or the evidence window is narrow.
- **T+1 through T+3 monitoring** — Next-day and settlement-window reviews for patterns that emerge across a short sequence of events: allocation fairness on block trades, partial fill distribution, and settlement failures. These alerts align with the trade settlement cycle and CAT error correction windows.
- **T+N rolling-window monitoring** — Longer-horizon reviews (weekly, monthly, quarterly) for patterns that only become visible over time: churning and excessive trading (turnover ratios measured over months), coordinated trading across accounts, systematic favoritism in allocations, and insider trading correlations (trading patterns around earnings announcements or M&A events). Rolling windows must be calibrated to the specific pattern — churning detection typically requires 3-12 months of data, while insider trading correlation windows may span 30-90 days around a material event.
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