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# What Is Risk in a Skill?

**Short answer:** Risk tokens are the skill’s invalidation and damage-control rules: max drawdown, stop style, margin of safety, time stops. They answer “what proves this wrong?” — the part trading bots usually omit.

## Typical tokens

* `maxDrawdown`
* `stopLoss` — `none` / `trailing` / `hard` / `time-based`
* `marginOfSafety` — value skills buy below a documented discount

A Buffett skill may have no price stop and a 30% margin of safety. A Minervini skill cuts fast at the pivot. Both are valid *inside their schema*. Mixing them without saying so is how agents blow up.

Harness hooks should treat these as deterministic where possible — not suggestions.

Related: Sizing · Filters · invest.md

*Nothing here is financial advice.*