jfm-writing-style
Use when the prose, intro, and abstract are the bottleneck for a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript — making the trading mechanism land for microstructure insiders. Late-stage polish; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-writing-style --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.
# Writing Style (jfm-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The mechanism, design, and exhibits are stable and it is time to write the intro and abstract (not before) - The abstract describes data and methods but never states the microstructure result - The intro reads like a broad-finance paper and does not signal "this is microstructure" in the first paragraph - Institutional detail (market rules, order types, venue mechanics) is vague where precision is the JFM currency - A coauthor's draft over-claims generality JFM referees will not grant ## The JFM voice JFM prose is **precise about market mechanics and disciplined about claims**. The reader is a microstructure specialist who wants the institutional detail right and the mechanism stated plainly. Three habits define the house style: 1. **Lead with the trading-process mechanism, fast.** The first paragraph should name the market object (spread, depth, order flow, price discovery) and the economic force. A JFM intro that buries the mechanism behind two paragraphs of general-finance throat-clearing reads as mis-targeted. 2. **Get the institutions exactly right.** Name the venue, the matching/priority rule, the order types, the tick
- When to trigger
- The JFM voice
- Writing the intro and abstract
- Before / after (illustrative)
- The mechanism sentence
- House-style details that signal fluency
- Pruning the broad-finance throat-clearing
- Checklist
- Calibrating claims to a skeptical specialist
- Anti-patterns
- Sequencing the write so the mechanism survives editing
- Output format
What does the jfm-writing-style skill do?
Use when the prose, intro, and abstract are the bottleneck for a Journal of Financial Markets (JFM) manuscript — making the trading mechanism land for microstructure insiders. Late-stage polish; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfm-writing-style --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.