jfm-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a question belongs at the Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) — i.e., whether it is genuinely about market microstructure / how markets trade rather than broad asset pricing or corporate finance. Scopes and reroutes; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-topic-selection --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Topic Selection (jfm-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - The paper studies trading, liquidity, prices, or order flow, and you must decide JFM vs. JF / JFE / RFS / JFQA - A coauthor says "we have liquidity in the regressions" but the mechanism is really a corporate-finance or macro story - The dataset is microstructure-grade (TAQ, LOBSTER, proprietary order book) but the *question* may be too broad to interest microstructure referees - A referee elsewhere wrote "this is not really a markets paper" - You need to decide if a structural/macro asset-pricing result has a sharp microstructure cut worth carving out for JFM ## The JFM fit test JFM publishes research on **how securities are traded and priced** — the design and analysis of trading mechanisms, optimal order placement, the role of information in markets, liquidity, and price discovery. The clean test is the **mechanism question**: *Does the paper's central economic force live inside the trading process?* If you can restate the contribution without referencing spreads, depth, order flow, market design, information asymmetry among traders, or price formation, it is probably not a JFM paper. | The question is really about… | M
- When to trigger
- The JFM fit test
- Where JFM is the better home than its siblings
- Worked triage (illustrative)
- Scoping by asset class
- Theory vs. empirics: both have a JFM home, on different terms
- Quick desk-reject self-screen
- Checklist
- Sizing the contribution to JFM, not above or below it
- Common mis-targets and where they actually go
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jfm-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a question belongs at the Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) — i.e., whether it is genuinely about market microstructure / how markets trade rather than broad asset pricing or corporate finance. Scopes and reroutes; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-topic-selection --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.