Agent skill

Jfm Literature Positioning

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript against the microstructure frontier and its broad-finance siblings — staking a contribution the…

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Install Jfm Literature Positioning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-literature-positioning -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jfm-literature-positioning --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Journal-of-Financial-Markets-Skills/skills/jfm-literature-positioning .claude/skills/jfm-literature-positioning && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
jfm-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
992 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript against the microstructure frontier and its broad-finance siblings — staking a contribution the…

  • Works in 4 steps: Anchor the lineage. Name the canonical… → Name the closest 3-5 papers, then the… → State the marginal contribution in… → …
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Positioning JFM against the…, Building the contribution stack and Worked positioning…, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jfm Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript against the microstructure frontier and its broad-finance siblings — staking a contribution the markets-literature insiders will recognize. Positions; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Positioning and messaging and Citation management. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging
  • Tasks that involve Citation management

Example prompts

  • “/jfm-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Anchor the lineage. Name the canonical microstructure model your result speaks to (information-based: Kyle / Glosten-Milgrom /…
  2. Name the closest 3-5 papers, then the gap. For each, one sentence of "they show X; we show Y that they could not." Microstructure referees…
  3. State the marginal contribution in trading-process terms. New measure? New identifying market-structure shock? New venue/asset where the…
  4. Pre-empt the "incremental" charge. Show what changes in our understanding of how markets work if the result holds — not just a new…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Jfm Literature Positioning loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 72 tokens; SKILL.md has 992 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~72
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 992 words, ~1,986 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jfm-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jfm-literature-positioning
description
Use when positioning a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript against the microstructure frontier and its broad-finance siblings — staking a contribution the markets-literature insiders will recognize. Positions; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Literature Positioning (jfm-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The contribution sentence is generic ("we study liquidity and X") and a microstructure reader cannot tell what is new
  • You are not sure whether the closest prior work is in JFM, JF, JFE, RFS, JFQA, or the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis microstructure issues
  • A referee wrote "this is incremental to [known microstructure paper]" or "the canonical citation is missing"
  • The theory lineage (Kyle 1985, Glosten-Milgrom 1985, Easley-O'Hara, Amihud-Mendelson) is not anchored
  • The paper risks being read as a worse version of a broad-finance result rather than a sharper microstructure one

Positioning JFM against the broad-finance siblings

JFM referees are specialists; they reward a contribution stated in microstructure terms and punish positioning that treats the paper as general finance. The differentiation is not "lower-ranked version of JF" — it is "deeper on market mechanics than JF/RFS would publish."

SiblingWhat they rewardHow to position away toward JFM
Journal of Finance (JF)broad importance, general-interest financeJFM cut = the trading-process mechanism, finer than JF's frame
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE)empirical breadth, often corporate/APJFM cut = market-quality / order-flow object, not firm/policy outcome
Review of Financial Studies (RFS)generality + a clean model or designJFM cut = institutional depth in one market's plumbing
JFQAquantitative finance breadthJFM cut = microstructure mechanism is the contribution, not a method

Building the contribution stack

  1. Anchor the lineage. Name the canonical microstructure model your result speaks to (information-based: Kyle / Glosten-Milgrom / Easley-O'Hara; inventory: Ho-Stoll / Amihud-Mendelson; liquidity-pricing: Amihud 2002, Pástor-Stambaugh, Acharya-Pedersen). Place your paper as confirming, extending, overturning, or measuring it.
  2. Name the closest 3-5 papers, then the gap. For each, one sentence of "they show X; we show Y that they could not." Microstructure referees know this literature cold — vagueness reads as ignorance.
  3. State the marginal contribution in trading-process terms. New measure? New identifying market-structure shock? New venue/asset where the mechanism is tested? New theoretical prediction made testable?
  4. Pre-empt the "incremental" charge. Show what changes in our understanding of how markets work if the result holds — not just a new coefficient.

Worked positioning (illustrative)

Suppose the result is that a new order type narrows effective spreads. A weak intro says "we study order types and liquidity." A JFM positioning says: Glosten-Milgrom predicts spreads compensate for adverse selection; prior work (name 3-5) shows spreads respond to tick size and to dark trading, but none isolates how order-type design alters the adverse-selection component; we exploit the staggered venue rollout to show effective spreads fall by X bps with the permanent (adverse-selection) component falling most, identifying the channel as reduced information leakage rather than inventory cost. That places the paper in the lineage, names the gap, and states the mechanism — exactly what a microstructure referee checks for.

Common positioning failures and the fix

  • Citing the wrong neighborhood. A liquidity paper that cites only Fama-French and Carhart but no Amihud / Pástor-Stambaugh / Acharya-Pedersen signals the authors do not know the field. Fix: anchor in the liquidity-pricing lineage first.
  • Survey-style intro. Twenty citations with no gap statement. Fix: 3-5 closest papers, each with an explicit they/we contrast.
  • Rank-down framing. "This was not quite enough for JF, so JFM." Fix: position as deeper on mechanism, which JFM rewards and JF would trim.

Mapping the literature by sub-field

Microstructure has distinct sub-literatures, and positioning means knowing which one you are in and citing its core:

  • Information & adverse selection: Kyle (1985), Glosten-Milgrom (1985), Easley-O'Hara, PIN/VPIN measurement.
  • Inventory & market making: Ho-Stoll, Amihud-Mendelson, Stoll's spread decomposition.
  • Liquidity & asset pricing: Amihud (2002), Pástor-Stambaugh (2003), Acharya-Pedersen (2005), liquidity as a priced risk.
  • Market design & fragmentation: maker-taker, tick size, dark pools, Reg NMS / MiFID, venue competition.
  • High-frequency / latency: Hendershott-Jones-Menkveld, Budish-Cramton-Shim, the speed-race literature.

State your sub-field, anchor its core, then bridge to the one or two adjacent sub-fields you touch. A referee from your sub-field will be the one assigned; missing its canon is the fastest credibility loss.

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Checklist

  • The canonical microstructure lineage is cited and the paper is placed relative to it
  • The 3-5 closest papers are named with an explicit "they / we" gap each
  • The contribution is phrased as a trading-process advance, not a generic finance finding
  • The positioning explains why JFM and not JF/JFE/RFS (depth/mechanism, not rank)
  • No canonical microstructure citation is conspicuously missing
  • All cited exemplars are real and verifiable; none invented or marked 待核实 falsely

Writing the contribution paragraph

The single paragraph that states the contribution is the highest-leverage text in the paper. Build it in four moves: (1) the open question in the sub-field, phrased so a specialist nods; (2) what we do — the data, setting, and identifying variation in one clause; (3) what we find with the headline magnitude in market units; (4) why it matters for how markets work — the mechanism the result identifies. Avoid hedged throat-clearing ("we attempt to shed some light on…"); a microstructure editor wants a confident, falsifiable claim. Keep this paragraph verbatim-consistent with the abstract and title so the contribution reads as one idea, not three slightly different ones.

Citation hygiene the referees check

Microstructure is a tight field; the assigned referee likely authored a paper you should cite. Run a deliberate check: for each sub-field you touch, is the canonical paper present and correctly characterized? Are recent JFM papers on the same mechanism cited (a journal notices when its own literature is ignored)? Is any "first to" claim defensible against a five-minute search? Mischaracterizing a cited paper is worse than omitting it — the author-referee will correct the record sharply. Verify every exemplar against the official archive; never fabricate a citation to fill a gap.

Anti-patterns

  • Citing only broad-finance blockbusters and skipping the microstructure literature the referees wrote
  • "First paper to study X" claims a microstructure insider can falsify in one search
  • Positioning as a cheaper JF/RFS paper rather than a deeper JFM one
  • Burying the contribution in a literature dump with no explicit gap statement
  • Listing a general asset-pricing or corporate paper as the closest prior microstructure work

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Financial Markets (JFM)
【Skill】jfm-literature-positioning
【Canonical lineage】<Kyle / Glosten-Milgrom / Amihud-Mendelson / …>
【Closest work + gap】3-5 papers, each "they show… / we show…"
【Marginal contribution】<new measure / shock / venue / prediction>
【Why JFM not siblings】<depth or mechanism, not rank>
【Source status】verified URL / 待核实 / not asserted
【Next skill】jfm-identification

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Financial-Markets-Skills/skills/jfm-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jfm Literature Positioning

What does Jfm Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when positioning a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript against the microstructure frontier and its broad-finance siblings — staking a contribution the…. Jfm Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when positioning a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript against the microstructure frontier and its broad-finance siblings — staking a contribution the markets-literature insiders will recognize.

When should I use Jfm Literature Positioning?

Jfm Literature Positioning fits situations like: tasks that involve Positioning and messaging; tasks that involve Citation management.

How do I install Jfm Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-literature-positioning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Financial-Markets-Skills/skills/jfm-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jfm-literature-positioning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jfm Literature Positioning in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-literature-positioning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Financial-Markets-Skills/skills/jfm-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jfm-literature-positioning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jfm Literature Positioning in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-literature-positioning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jfm-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/jfm-literature-positioning, .github/skills/jfm-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/jfm-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Jfm Literature Positioning need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jfm Literature Positioning is instructions for the agent only.

Does Jfm Literature Positioning access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Jfm Literature Positioning safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Jfm Literature Positioning use?

Jfm Literature Positioning is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Jfm Literature Positioning use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Jfm Literature Positioning?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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