algorithmic-trading-firm-licensing-thresholds SKILL.md skillA
algorithmic-trading-firm-licensing-thresholds from himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/algorithmic-trading-firm-licensing-thresholds@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills
- Path
skills/algorithmic-trading-firm-licensing-thresholds/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Sep 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 13, 2026
- Size
- 10,305 bytes
- Repository stars
- 50
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when auditing whether a proprietary trading firm has crossed a quantitative registration trigger: the 17 CFR 240.15b9-1 conditions for FINRA membership exemption, the MiFID II Article 19 message-rate test, and the SEBI limbs.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## When to Use Use this skill when auditing a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund or trading member to check whether its activity has crossed a *quantitative* registration trigger in the US, the EU or India — the numeric limbs of three specific regimes, screened against the numbers the regulator or the exchange actually publishes. Start here by correcting the misconception this skill exists to prevent. **There is no single "algo trading firm licence" and no global message-rate threshold that triggers one.** The three regimes look superficially alike and are not: - **US.** Rule 15b9-1 is an exemption from the Exchange Act **section 15(b)(8) requirement to join FINRA**, not from broker-dealer registration under section 15(a), and *nothing in it turns on order or message rates*. It turns on three conditions: exchange membership, carrying no customer accounts, and executing solely on an exchange of which the firm is a member. - **EU.** The MiFID II HFT designation is a **message-rate** test — but on an *average*, at 2 and 4 messages per second, not on a peak and not at any round number in the dozens. Meeting it removes the own-account dealing …
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How to install
mdr add himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/algorithmic-trading-firm-licensing-thresholds@sha256:065dbecb6faf2d99The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 13, 2026 and Sep 4, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-09-04 | 48bcc05 | 10,305 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-09-03 | 8527a51 | 10,304 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-09-03 | 64e8b01 | 10,478 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-09-03 | eb7108c | 10,450 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-13 | 097e217 | 4,703 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10305 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills · 50 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_32kxhalc6muw4fk7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/algorithmic-trading-firm-licensing-thresholds GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/065dbecb6faf2d99c278a42d21e510a37f16d318fc0d23c4c86b50272dab2f3e
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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