Ibd Distribution Day Monitor

Tracks distribution days on QQQ and SPY using IBD's rules: close down 0.2% or more on higher volume, with 25-session expiration and 5% rally invalidation. It counts clusters in 5, 15, and 25-day windows, classifies market risk as NORMAL through SEVERE, and suggests TQQQ exposure levels accordingly. Run it after market close before adjusting leveraged positions. The QQQ-weighted logic means Nasdaq weakness drives the overall signal, which makes sense for TQQQ traders but might feel aggressive if you're equally watching both indices. Outputs JSON and Markdown reports with all the math shown. It's a monitoring tool, not an execution engine, so you still have to pull the trigger yourself.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --skill ibd-distribution-day-monitor --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

IBD Distribution Day Monitor

Purpose

Detect IBD-style Distribution Days for major market ETFs (QQQ as Nasdaq proxy, SPY as S&P 500 proxy) and produce a daily market deterioration signal plus a TQQQ/QQQ exposure recommendation. Designed for post-market review.

When to Use

Invoke this skill:

Daily after the US market close.
Before increasing TQQQ exposure or rebalancing leveraged positions.
When evaluating whether an uptrend is becoming vulnerable to a correction.
As an upstream input to FTD (Follow-Through Day) detection or other market-state frameworks.

Do NOT use this skill to:

Execute trades or modify orders.
Generate discretionary market predictions outside of the IBD ruleset.

Prerequisites

FMP API key: Required. Pass --api-key, set config.data.api_key, or set the FMP_API_KEY environment variable, in that priority order.
Other API keys: None used.
Python: 3.9+ with PyYAML>=6.0 and requests>=2.31.0 (see requirements.txt).