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Feature Engineering

  • 248 installs
  • 257 repo stars
  • Updated June 24, 2026
  • agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills

feature-engineering is a Claude Code skill that builds price, volume, technical, and microstructure features from market data for machine-learning trading models.

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feature-engineering constructs, validates, and selects features from market data for machine-learning trading models. A developer uses it when turning raw OHLCV and on-chain data into stationary price, volume, technical, and microstructure signals for crypto/Solana token models. It emphasizes feature quality over model choice.

  • Constructs ML trading features (price, volume, technical, microstructure) from OHLCV market data
  • Ships build_features.py and feature_importance.py plus a feature catalog reference
  • Targets crypto/Solana token classification and regression models

Feature Engineering by the numbers

  • 248 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #364 of 1,106 Finance & Trading skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 4, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
At a glance

feature-engineering capabilities & compatibility

Capabilities
feature engineering · signal classification · data analysis
Use cases
data analysis · trading · research
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What feature-engineering says it does

Feature engineering is the single highest-leverage activity in building ML trading models.
SKILL.md
This skill covers constructing, validating, and selecting features from market data
SKILL.md
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Last updatedJune 24, 2026
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What it does

Turn raw market data into ML-ready features for crypto trading signal and regression models.

Who is it for?

Building stationary, informative feature sets from raw OHLCV, volume, and on-chain data for trading models.

Skip if: Choosing or training the model itself, or live order execution.

When should I use this skill?

You need to transform raw market data into features for a classification or regression trading model.

By the numbers

  • 10 price features listed
  • 8 volume features listed
  • 10 technical features listed

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Feature Engineering for Trading ML

Feature engineering is the single highest-leverage activity in building ML trading models. Model selection (XGBoost vs. neural net vs. logistic regression) matters far less than the quality and diversity of input features. A simple model on great features will outperform a complex model on raw prices every time.

This skill covers constructing, validating, and selecting features from market data for use in classification (signal-classification) and regression models targeting crypto/Solana token trading.

Why Features Beat Models

Raw OHLCV data is non-stationary, noisy, and high-dimensional. Models trained directly on price series will overfit. Feature engineering transforms raw data into stationary, informative signals that capture distinct aspects of market behavior:

  • Compression: Reduce thousands of price bars to dozens of descriptive statistics
  • Stationarity: Convert non-stationary prices into stationary returns and ratios
  • Domain knowledge: Encode trader intuition (support/resistance, volume climax)

as computable quantities

  • Regime awareness: Features that behave differently in trending vs. ranging

markets help models adapt

Feature Categories

1. Price Features

Derived purely from OHLCV price columns. These capture trend, momentum, and volatility from the price series itself.

FeatureFormulaLookback
log_returnln(close_t / close_{t-1})1 bar
abs_returnabs(log_return)1 bar
return_volatilitystd(log_return, N)20 bars
momentum_Nclose_t / close_{t-N} - 15, 10, 20
accelerationmomentum_5 - momentum_5[5]10 bars
high_low_range(high - low) / close1 bar
close_position(close - low) / (high - low)1 bar
gapopen_t / close_{t-1} - 11 bar
rolling_skewskew(log_return, N)20 bars
rolling_kurtosiskurtosis(log_return, N)20 bars

2. Volume Features

Volume confirms or contradicts price movements. Divergences between price and volume are among the most reliable signals in short-term trading.

FeatureFormulaLookback
volume_ratiovolume_t / mean(volume, N)20 bars
volume_ma_ratiosma(volume, 5) / sma(volume, 20)20 bars
obv_slopeslope(OBV, N)10 bars
vwap_deviation(close - VWAP) / VWAPintraday
volume_accelerationvolume_ratio_t - volume_ratio_{t-1}21 bars
buy_volume_ratiobuy_volume / total_volume1 bar
dollar_volumeclose * volume1 bar
volume_cvstd(volume, N) / mean(volume, N)20 bars

3. Technical Features

Standard technical indicators computed via pandas-ta. Use the pandas-ta skill for full parameter documentation.

FeatureSourceLookback
rsiRSI(14)14 bars
macd_histogramMACD(12,26,9) histogram33 bars
bb_position(close - BB_lower) / (BB_upper - BB_lower)20 bars
bb_width(BB_upper - BB_lower) / BB_mid20 bars
atr_ratioATR(14) / close14 bars
adxADX(14)14 bars
stoch_kStochastic %K(14,3)14 bars
cciCCI(20)20 bars
mfiMFI(14)14 bars
supertrend_directionSupertrend direction (+1/-1)10 bars

4. Microstructure Features

Derived from trade-level data (individual swaps/transactions). Require on-chain or DEX API data.

FeatureDescription
trade_count_ratioTrades this bar / avg trades per bar
avg_trade_sizeMean trade size in USD
large_trade_pct% of volume from trades > $10k
unique_tradersCount of distinct wallet addresses
buy_count_ratioBuy trades / total trades
trade_size_entropyShannon entropy of trade size distribution

5. On-Chain Features

Derived from blockchain state changes. Require Helius or Solana RPC data.

FeatureDescription
holder_count_changeChange in unique holders over N periods
whale_net_flowNet tokens moved by top-10 holders
token_velocityTransfer volume / circulating supply
liquidity_changeChange in DEX liquidity pool TVL

6. Cross-Asset Features

Capture relationships between the target token and broader market.

FeatureDescription
sol_correlationRolling correlation with SOL price
btc_betaRolling beta to BTC returns
sector_momentumAverage return of tokens in same sector

7. Time Features

Cyclical encoding of calendar time. Use sin/cos encoding to preserve cyclical continuity (hour 23 is close to hour 0).

import numpy as np

hour_sin = np.sin(2 * np.pi * hour / 24)
hour_cos = np.cos(2 * np.pi * hour / 24)
day_of_week = np.sin(2 * np.pi * day / 7)

Stationarity

Non-stationary features will cause your model to fail on new data. A feature is stationary if its statistical properties (mean, variance) don't change over time.

Testing for Stationarity

Use the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test:

from scipy.stats import adfuller

result = adfuller(feature_series.dropna())
p_value = result[1]
is_stationary = p_value < 0.05

Making Features Stationary

Non-StationaryStationary Transform
PriceLog return
VolumeVolume ratio (vol / avg vol)
OBVOBV slope (regression coefficient)
Holder countHolder count change
RSIAlready stationary (bounded 0-100)
Dollar volumeDollar volume / rolling mean

Rule: If a feature trends upward or downward over time, it is non-stationary. Transform it into a ratio, difference, or rate of change.

Normalization

After computing features, normalize them so that all features have comparable scales. This is critical for distance-based models (KNN, SVM) and helpful for tree models.

MethodFormulaWhen to Use
Z-score(x - mean) / stdGaussian-like distributions
Min-max(x - min) / (max - min)Bounded features (RSI, BB position)
Rankrank(x) / len(x)Heavy-tailed distributions

Critical: Use rolling statistics for normalization. Never use full-sample mean/std — that introduces lookahead bias.

# CORRECT: rolling z-score
z = (feature - feature.rolling(60).mean()) / feature.rolling(60).std()

# WRONG: full-sample z-score (lookahead bias!)
z = (feature - feature.mean()) / feature.std()

No-Lookahead Guarantee

The most dangerous bug in trading ML is lookahead bias — using future information to compute features or targets. Follow these rules absolutely:

1. Rolling calculations only: Never use .mean() or .std() on the full series. Always use .rolling(N).mean(). 2. Shift targets forward, not features backward: The target is close.shift(-N) / close - 1 (future return), not close / close.shift(N) - 1 (past return used as target). 3. No future index alignment: When joining feature and target DataFrames, verify that feature row t is paired with target row t (where target already contains the forward shift). 4. Train/test split by time: Never random split. Always train = data[:split_idx], test = data[split_idx:].

Feature Selection

After computing many features, select the most predictive and least redundant:

Step 1: Remove Low-Variance Features

from sklearn.feature_selection import VarianceThreshold
selector = VarianceThreshold(threshold=0.01)
X_filtered = selector.fit_transform(X)

Step 2: Correlation Filter

Remove features with > 0.9 correlation to another feature (keep the one with higher target correlation):

corr_matrix = X.corr().abs()
upper = corr_matrix.where(np.triu(np.ones(corr_matrix.shape), k=1).astype(bool))
to_drop = [col for col in upper.columns if any(upper[col] > 0.9)]

Step 3: Feature Importance

Train a random forest and rank by importance:

from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
rf = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=100, random_state=42)
rf.fit(X_train, y_train)
importances = pd.Series(rf.feature_importances_, index=X.columns).sort_values(ascending=False)

Step 4: Mutual Information

Non-linear alternative to correlation:

from sklearn.feature_selection import mutual_info_classif
mi = mutual_info_classif(X_train, y_train, random_state=42)
mi_scores = pd.Series(mi, index=X.columns).sort_values(ascending=False)

Label Creation

Labels (targets) define what the model learns to predict.

Binary Classification

forward_return = close.shift(-N) / close - 1
label = (forward_return > threshold).astype(int)  # 1 = up, 0 = not up

Typical thresholds: 1% for 1h bars, 3% for 4h bars, 5% for daily bars.

Multi-Class Classification

label = pd.cut(forward_return,
               bins=[-np.inf, -threshold, threshold, np.inf],
               labels=[0, 1, 2])  # 0=down, 1=flat, 2=up

Regression

target = forward_return  # Predict exact return magnitude

Binary classification is recommended for initial models — it's simpler and more robust to noise.

Integration with Other Skills

  • `pandas-ta`: Compute technical indicators that become features
  • `birdeye-api`: Fetch OHLCV and trade data for feature computation
  • `helius-api`: Fetch on-chain data for holder/whale features
  • `signal-classification`: Use engineered features as model inputs
  • `regime-detection`: Regime labels as features or for regime-conditional models
  • `ohlcv-processing`: Clean and resample raw data before feature computation

Files

References

  • references/feature_catalog.md — Complete catalog of ~40 features with formulas,

lookbacks, stationarity status, and interpretation notes

  • references/pitfalls.md — Common mistakes in trading feature engineering:

lookahead bias, overfitting, survivorship bias, data snooping, non-stationarity

Scripts

  • scripts/build_features.py — Compute 25+ features from OHLCV data with

stationarity testing and quality reporting. Supports demo mode with synthetic data or live data via Birdeye API.

  • scripts/feature_importance.py — Rank features by predictive power using

tree-based importance and permutation importance. Identifies redundant features via correlation analysis.

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