Claude Code for Finance: The Complete Beginner's Guide for Finance Professionals Who Don't Code — Real Systems, Real Sessions, Real Limits

"We will not write code. We will type in English and let Claude Code handle building our finance applications" The systems in this book are built that way. The book also includes access to a companion online prompt library, where each prompt can be copied with one click. The address is inside. A trading system that posts its signal at 9:16 every morning, before the market opens. A voice agent that returns an institutional research report and a ten-sheet Excel model for any company you name. Working builds for nine finance desks. This book assumes you have never opened Claude Code. It starts with the download and takes you through your first build. PART I — THE SETUP Install Claude Code, learn how to ask, set goals and loops, write your rulebook, and wire everything together. What you need before you start. Claude Code is Anthropic's tool, and it is not on Claude's free tier. It comes with the paid Claude plans, Pro and Max. Have one before you begin, because every chapter runs on real sessions you are meant to repeat on your own machine. PART II — NINE DESKS Financial statements, valuation, bonds, derivatives, charts, portfolios, the close, bank risk, and ESG. Every desk is demonstrated through a real session, captured live. PART III — THE HARNESS The system prompt, plugin marketplaces—including accounting plugins—connectors and MCP, plus the skills and schedules that can keep parts of your desk running while you sleep. A THIRTY-DAY ROADMAP Week by week. Small enough to finish. Every number comes from a real document or a real run. All trading shown is paper trading, and where the tool cannot do something, the book says so. Tejas Jadhav, CFA, FRM, has spent twelve years as a business analyst, including ten years in financial services.