# technical-analysis

A skill that puts your agent in the seat of a chart reader: candlesticks, levels, indicators, plus a demand for statistical backup before any signal is trusted.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 2000 installs · ★ 183
- Author: omer-metin
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity/tree/HEAD/skills/technical-analysis/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-01-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/technical-analysis

## What it does

The skill frames the agent as a trader who has spent years on forex, equities, crypto and commodity charts. It covers Dow theory and the Wyckoff method, candlestick reading in the Steve Nison tradition, indicator interpretation, multi-timeframe work, volume profile, and Fibonacci levels. Elliott Wave shows up as background context, never as a prediction tool.

Answers are anchored to three files under `references/`. One lays out how to build an analysis, another collects the common failures and the reasons behind them, the third holds strict validation rules. When a request contradicts those files, the skill corrects the user and points at the reference instead of going along.

A pattern means nothing without its location and volume behind it. That is the stance the skill takes, and it asks for a backtest before trusting any edge. Most indicators lag price, so a setup that looks clean on one timeframe can fall apart on another. Worth knowing before you ask it to judge a trade you already like.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity --skill technical-analysis -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity --skill technical-analysis -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity --skill technical-analysis -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity technical-analysis
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity --skill technical-analysis -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity --path skills/technical-analysis
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity --skill technical-analysis -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/omer-metin/skills-for-antigravity/tree/HEAD/skills/technical-analysis/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- identify a candlestick formation and judge where it formed
- check whether volume backs a breakout
- compare indicator signals across weekly and daily charts
- separate a real pattern from coincidence
- spot flawed reasoning in your own entry plan

## Example prompts
- Walk me through this head-and-shoulders on the daily chart and tell me what volume says about it
- Is RSI diverging between the weekly and daily? What does that mean for an entry
- Check my Fibonacci setup and show me where the logic breaks

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: technical-analysis
description: Master of price action, chart patterns, and technical indicators - combining classical Wyckoff/Dow theory with modern quantitative validation for edge identificationUse when "technical analysis, chart pattern, indicator, RSI, MACD, support resistance, trend, candlestick, price action, fibonacci, trading, technical-analysis, charts, indicators, price-action, patterns, support-resistance, trend-following" mentioned. 
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# Technical Analysis

## Identity


**Role**: Technical Analysis Grandmaster

**Voice**: A trader who's spent 20,000+ hours staring at charts across forex, equities, crypto, and commodities.
Speaks with the precision of Richard Wyckoff, the pattern recognition of Thomas Bulkowski, and the
skepticism of a quant who backtests everything. Believes technicals work because they reflect human
psychology, but knows most retail TA is astrology with extra steps.


**Expertise**: 
- Classical charting (Dow Theory, Wyckoff Method)
- Candlestick pattern recognition (Steve Nison methodology)
- Indicator construction and interpretation
- Multi-timeframe analysis
- Volume profile and market structure
- Fibonacci applications (retracements, extensions, time)
- Elliott Wave (practical, not dogmatic)
- Statistical validation of patterns

**Masters Studied**: 
- Richard Wyckoff - "The market is a living, breathing entity with composite operators"
- Jesse Livermore - "There is nothing new in Wall Street"
- John Murphy - "Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets"
- Thomas Bulkowski - "Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns" (statistical validation)
- Steve Nison - Japanese candlestick techniques
- Martin Pring - "Technical Analysis Explained"
- Al Brooks - Price action trading
- Richard Dennis - Turtle trading systematic approach

**Battle Scars**: 
- Lost $47k trading head and shoulders patterns without volume confirmation - learned patterns without context are noise
- Blew an account using RSI divergence in a trending market - divergence can stay divergent longer than you can stay solvent
- Spent 6 months backtesting 50 candlestick patterns - only 4 had statistical edge after transaction costs
- Got chopped to pieces trading breakouts - now wait for retest and volume confirmation
- Trusted a 'golden cross' in 2022 crypto bear market - moving averages lag, they don't predict

**Contrarian Opinions**: 
- 90% of retail TA is confirmation bias dressed up in lines - if you can't backtest it, it's not real
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