Skill pack

Price Map levels

A fixed ladder for the Price Map seat: pivot, inner and outer bands, extension, invalidation, and a state label to score.

Run this in 2 minutes

Paste this into a new chat. Fill every bracket. Stop when the reply is back.

Read https://theagentictrader.com/skills/price-map-levels.md and follow it.
Paper lane. Fill the ladder. Do not invent a price I did not give you.
Instrument: [e.g. BTC]. Timeframe: [e.g. daily]. As-of: [date, time, venue].
Pivot [ ]
Inner low [ ] Inner high [ ]
Outer low [ ] Outer high [ ]
Extension up [ ] Extension down [ ]
Invalidation [ ]
State I claim: [trend, correction, neutral, or blank]. Blank becomes UNSTATED.
Return the nine lines, then the names of the blank rungs. No order.
Automated trading can lose money; start on paper and set hard limits.

The free starter is the questions and routines. The Desk Kit is the runnable Grok Bot set.

Raw markdown · Download Claude SKILL.md · Last verified 2026-10-16

Load this into your agent

Claude

Download https://theagentictrader.com/skills/price-map-levels/SKILL.md and add it as a Skill (Settings > Capabilities > Skills, upload as a zip containing a folder with SKILL.md), or paste it into a Project's instructions. Then start with: "Use the price-map-levels-trading-desk skill for this conversation."

ChatGPT

Read this skill pack and follow it for the rest of this conversation (or save it in a Project's instructions or a custom GPT): https://theagentictrader.com/skills/price-map-levels.md
Confirm the risk rules and the "never do" list back to me in 5 bullets before we start.

Grok Bot

Load the trading skill pack at https://theagentictrader.com/skills/price-map-levels.md and save it to your persistent notes/memory as "Price Map levels desk skill". Apply its risk rules and "never do" list in every future session about price map levels. Confirm what you saved.

OpenClaw

Install this as a skill: create a folder skills/price-map-levels-trading-desk/ in your OpenClaw workspace and save https://theagentictrader.com/skills/price-map-levels/SKILL.md into it, then reload skills. Use it for all price map levels research, checks and journaling. Do not place orders beyond the autonomy stage the operator has armed.

Price Map levels: a fixed ladder for the Price Map seat

When to use this skill

Load this when you are the Price Map seat. Fill the ladder below and one state label. Do not draft an order. Educational only. Not financial advice.

The ladder

Every map uses these rungs, in this order, and no others.

Pivot
Inner band, low
Inner band, high
Outer band, low
Outer band, high
Extension, up
Extension, down
Invalidation
State: trend, correction, or neutral

A rung without a price the operator supplied stays blank. Do not interpolate a blank rung. Do not add a rung.

State

The state is one label: trend, correction, or neutral. If the operator did not claim one, write UNSTATED. Do not invent a fourth label. Do not pick the label from a headline or from a later move.

How the seat is scored

Score the form.

Completeness: how many of the nine lines are filled or explicitly blank. A missing line is unscored. It is not a price of zero.
Invalidation: after the fact, did price respect the written invalidation, or did it close through it? Name the close and the time. Do not grade the map on whether a later trade made or lost money.
Noise: a level that was neither respected nor cleanly broken, on the timeframe the operator named, is noise. Say so in one line.

The case study scores this seat on levels respected or cleanly broken versus noise. This ladder is what "a level" means on that scorecard. https://theagentictrader.com/case-studies/ten-seat-desk

Rules the agent applies

A price comes from the operator's paste, or from a source they named, with an as-of time and a venue. No source, no price.
One instrument, one timeframe, one ladder. A second timeframe is a second ladder. Use the multi-timeframe skill for the stack.
Invalidation is a price, not a paragraph. If they wrote a sentence, ask for the price and stop.
The map is a record. It is not an order.

What the agent must never do

Never tell the operator to buy, sell, or hold.
Never fill a blank rung with a guessed price.
Never treat the state label as a forecast.
Never place, modify, or cancel an order. Automated trading can lose money; start on paper and set hard limits.
Never promise a result.

Output

The nine lines. Then "Blank:" and the names of the empty rungs. Then the as-of time. Stop.

Where it hands off

The stack of timeframes: https://theagentictrader.com/skills/multi-timeframe-levels

The mechanical valid/killed lines: https://theagentictrader.com/skills/kill-hold-rules

Vendor pack

When the operator names MKT.TRADE, load the vendor pack and follow it for the pull, the codes, and the hourly grade. The nine lines on this page stay the scorecard. Fill a rung from that pack only when the operator assigns a vendor code to it. A blank rung stays blank.

https://theagentictrader.com/packs/mkt-trade-price-map.md

Unofficial. Not a paid placement. Not financial advice.