The finance-tools-mcp , modified from investor-agent, is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides comprehensive financial insights and analysis to Large Language Models. It leverages real-time market data, news, and advanced analytics to help users obtain:
- Detailed ticker reports including company overview, news, key metrics, performance, dates, analyst recommendations, and upgrades/downgrades.
- Options data highlighting high open interest.
- Historical price trends for stocks.
- Essential financial statements (income, balance sheet, cash flow) formatted in millions USD.
- Up-to-date institutional ownership and mutual fund holdings.
- Current and historical CNN Fear & Greed Index data and trend analysis.
- Prompts related to core investment principles and portfolio construction strategies.
- Earnings history and insider trading activity.
- Breaking world news from CNBC.
- FRED series search results.
- Technical indicators using ta-lib-python.
The server integrates with yfinance for market data retrieval and fetches Fear & Greed data from CNN.
It also includes tools for calculating mathematical expressions and technical indicators using ta-lib-python.
And Macro economic indicators using fredapi.
And breaking world news from cnbc.com.
Make sure to also enable web search functionality if you would like to incoporate latest news in your analysis.
- Python: 3.10 or higher
- Package Manager: uv
First, install uv if you haven't already:
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | shThen, you can run the finance-tools-mcp MCP server using uvx:
uvx finance-tools-mcpIf you want to use your own FRED API key, you can set it as an environment variable:
FRED_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY uvx finance-tools-mcpYou can also run the server using Server-Sent Events (SSE) transport:
uvx finance-tools-mcp --transport sseOr with the FRED API key and SSE transport:
FRED_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY uvx finance-tools-mcp --transport sseTo integrate finance-tools-mcp with an MCP client (for example, Claude Desktop), add the following configuration to your claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"investor": {
"command": "path/to/uvx/command/uvx",
"args": ["finance-tools-mcp"],
}
}
}You can leverage the MCP inspector to debug the server:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx finance-tools-mcpor
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory ./ run finance-tools-mcpFor log monitoring, check the following directories:
- macOS:
~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp*.log - Windows:
%APPDATA%\Claude\logs\mcp*.log
For local development and testing:
- Use the MCP inspector as described in the Debugging section.
- Test using Claude Desktop with this configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"investor": {
"command": "path/to/uv/command/uv",
"args": ["--directory", "path/to/finance-tools-mcp", "run", "finance-tools-mcp"],
}
}
}This MCP server is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.