Trade NQ futures off the 30-second Opening Range the way Matt "Pax" Kenah / The PAX Group teaches it. Use this skill whenever the user asks for an OR-based entry, add, scale, or exit decision on NQ/MNQ/ES/MES; whenever the conversation references "PAX30", "opening range", "OR high", "OR low", "extensions", "rungs", "pay for the trade", "scratch stop", or "runners"; or whenever a dedicated Pax agent is asked to read the Bookmap MCP bridge and make a go/no-go call. Pulls live state from the bridge endpoints (orderbook, pull_stack, tape_buckets, lt_liquidity, microstructure_events, vwap, volume_profile, position) and turns it into a Pax-style decision. Do NOT use for: strategies that fight the OR (mean-reversion inside the range), for instruments outside ES/NQ/RTY/YM/Gold/Bonds/CL, or for sub-30-second scalps that ignore trade location.
Use when the operator asks to run, resume, continue, or check the live pax_algo_v1 sim trading loop on NQ (ETH or RTH session), or when picking a trading session back up after a reboot / fresh Claude session. Triggers include "trade ETH", "run the loop", "start trading the sim", "what's the loop doing", "pick up where we left off", "you trade this".
Checks for absorption / iceberg behavior at the OR-Strategy high or low. Looks for the signature where price reaches the level, heavy aggressor volume hits, and price DOESN'T move — meaning a hidden iceberg is filling the aggressors. Returns STAND_DOWN / EXIT signal when detected. Use right before any OR-breakout entry or as a "should I bail?" check after entry.
Aggressor-imbalance analysis on recent prints. Pulls the last 200 trades, computes buy-vs-sell volume ratio over rolling 10 / 50 / 200 windows, and flags alignment or inflection patterns. Use when the user asks about "tape", "order flow", "aggressor", "buying pressure", "selling pressure", or "what's the tape doing on X". Read-only — never places trades.
Reads C:\Bookmap\addons\MCP\Bookmap\news-calendar.json and reports whether the current ET time falls inside a configured macro-event or mega-cap-earnings blackout window. Returns BLOCKED + reason or CLEAR. Use as a hard gate before any new entry. Documented to remove the single largest source of OR-strategy blow-ups on NQ.
Reads the latest signal row from OR-Strategy's CSV output and cross-checks it against the current live orderbook so Claude can translate the strategy's opinion into a current-moment recommendation. Use when the user asks "what's the OR bias", "what's open range saying", "is OR-Strategy aligned with the tape", or "should I follow OR-Strategy right now". Read-only; does NOT modify any OR-Strategy code.
Pre-trade safety gate. Reads position, working orders, balance, and current orderbook before any order. Returns GO with state summary or NO-GO with the specific blocker. Run this BEFORE every call to bookmap_place_limit_order or bookmap_place_market_order. Use phrases like "is it safe to", "risk check", "pre-trade check", or whenever the user is about to place an order.
Reports the current trading-session state for index futures (ET-based). Returns a code and human label — PRE_MARKET, OR_FORMING, ACTIVE, LATE_MORNING, CHOP, AFTERNOON, CLOSE_RISK, POST_MARKET. Use to block entries during known low-edge windows (12:00–13:30 chop zone, 15:30–16:00 close risk, post-market). Pure deterministic; calls no LLM math.