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Snap & Trade 2.1.0 open-source Claude skill turns chart screenshots into trade plans

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The developer released version 2.1.0 of Snap & Trade, an open-source Claude skill that analyzes screenshots of trading charts. Users paste a chart from platforms such as TradingView or MT4/MT5 and receive a scored setup with a long, short, or no-trade call, plus entry, stop loss, and target levels. A separate Python script checks each plan and rejects any setup below a 1.5R reward-to-risk ratio, while the language model is not used for the math. The tool includes position sizing, a backtest journal, and 11 modules adapted from another MIT-licensed project, with its live-data features limited to US stocks. The author stresses that it is not financial advice, has no proven track record yet, and is running a backtest whose results will be published regardless of outcome.

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