Hermes Trading Research Agent

What Hermes Trading Research Agent does

Hermes Trading Research Agent is a Hermes profile distribution built on the tradermonty/claude-trading-skills repository. It acts as an always-on research and process-support assistant for a human US-equity trader. The README is explicit that this is not an automated trading system: there is no order placement, no signal service and no hidden scheduled jobs, and the human makes every entry and exit decision.

The profile installs under the alias trading-research-assistant and adds slash commands including /pre-market-routine, /after-close-review, /market-regime-daily, /swing-opportunity-daily, /earnings-movers-triage, /portfolio-risk-check and /trade-journal. The first two have default cron schedules on weekdays in the America/Los_Angeles timezone, at 06:00 and 13:15. FMP and FINVIZ API keys are optional, and a missing key puts the affected skill into degraded mode. Alpaca access is paper and read-only by default. A Japanese README is included.

Key features

• Hermes profile installed with hermes profile install under the alias trading-research-assistant
• Slash commands for pre-market routine, after-close review, regime check and trade journal
• Default weekday cron schedules at 06:00 and 13:15 Pacific time
• Degraded mode that marks affected output when an API key is missing
• Paper and read-only brokerage access by default
• Validation scripts that check every referenced upstream skill exists

When to use it

• Run a structured pre-market routine covering macro calendar, regime and earnings movers
• Review open trades and write journal prompts after the close
• Check portfolio exposure and concentration before taking a new swing candidate

Who it is for: Individual US-equity traders who want a Hermes-based research and journaling assistant and will make every trade decision themselves.

How it fits with Hermes Agent

It is built for Hermes Agent as a profile distribution. The README says it needs Hermes CLI v0.12.0 or later and was verified on v0.14.0.

How to install Hermes Trading Research Agent

These commands are copied from the project's README. Check the repository for the latest steps before you run them.

git clone https://github.com/tradermonty/claude-trading-skills.git
export CLAUDE_TRADING_SKILLS_REPO="$(realpath ../claude-trading-skills)"
hermes profile install "$(pwd)" --name trading-research-assistant --alias -y
trading-research-assistant chat

Requirements: Hermes Agent CLI v0.12.0 or later, Python 3.11+, a local clone of tradermonty/claude-trading-skills, and one LLM key such as ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY or OPENROUTER_API_KEY

Note: It is a research and journaling assistant only, with no order placement, and the README verifies it against Hermes v0.14.0.

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