Persuasion Principles

Guide counterparty credit risk measurement and management for OTC and securities trading, organized around three workflows: assessing a new counterparty, responding to a credit-deterioration event, and executing a default close-out. Use when measuring current or potential future exposure to a counterparty, setting or reviewing counterparty credit limits, evaluating ISDA Master Agreement netting and close-out mechanics, designing CSA collateral terms or uncleared margin compliance (VM/IM, SIMM), assessing central clearing mandates under Dodd-Frank or EMIR and CCP default waterfalls, monitoring creditworthiness via CDS spreads or ratings, quantifying wrong-way risk, or computing EAD, SA-CCR, and CVA. For Reg T and FINRA Rule 4210 brokerage margin see margin-operations; for settlement risk, DVP, and CLS see settlement-clearing.

AArch64 and ARM assembly skill for reading and writing ARM assembly code. Use when reading GCC/Clang output for AArch64 or ARM Thumb targets, writing inline asm in C/C++, understanding the ARM ABI (AAPCS64/AAPCS), or debugging register and stack state on ARM hardware or QEMU. Activates on queries about AArch64 assembly, ARM Thumb, NEON/SVE SIMD, ARM calling convention, inline asm for ARM, or reading ARM disassembly.

Tailwind CSS patterns and conventions for frontend apps. Use when writing component styles, layouts, or working with CSS classes.

GNU Make skill for C/C++ build systems. Use when writing or debugging Makefiles, understanding pattern rules and automatic dependency generation, managing CFLAGS/LDFLAGS, converting ad-hoc compile commands into maintainable Makefiles, or diagnosing incremental build issues. Activates on queries about Makefiles, make targets, pattern rules, phony targets, dependency tracking, recursive make, or make errors.

Guide post-trade compliance monitoring and trade surveillance system design. Use when building alert logic to detect churning, front-running, cherry-picking, layering, spoofing, wash trading, or marking the close, implementing post-trade best execution review, evaluating allocation fairness with pro-rata verification or dispersion analysis, designing exception-based monitoring workflows with escalation paths, correlating trading with MNPI events for insider trading detection, building personal trading surveillance for preclearance and blackout enforcement, determining SAR or blue sheet or CAT reporting triggers, or tuning surveillance thresholds to reduce false positives. Also covers turnover ratios, cost-to-equity ratios, and investigation case management.

Comprehensive guide for designing RESTful APIs including resource modeling, versioning strategies, HATEOAS, pagination, filtering, and HTTP best practices