mcpbeat

Trades MCP Server

com.potomacledger/trades
answering

Trades is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Stock trades of U.S. Congress & executive-branch officials, with conflict flags. Read-only.

Uptime history 44 hours of history
44 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
877 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add trades --transport http https://potomacledger.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trades": {
      "url": "https://potomacledger.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.trades]
url = "https://potomacledger.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trades": {
      "url": "https://potomacledger.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trades": {
      "url": "https://potomacledger.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

aggregates
aggregates
Summary stats over the filtered set: totals, branch split, most-active officials, top tickers bought/sold (per individual stock), top sectors bought/sold, potential conflict count, date range. Accepts the same branch/role/since/until/type/ticker filters as search — pass branch=congress + role=Senate + since=YYYY-MM-DD to scope. Use this BEFORE paginating search_trades when you only need ranked counts.
conflicts
list_conflicts
Trades flagged as a potential conflict (company sector overlaps the official's committee or agency). Accepts branch/role/since/until filters.
person
get_person_trades
All disclosed trades for a named member of Congress or executive-branch official.
recent
list_recent_trades
The most recently disclosed trades — newest first. Accepts the same branch/role/since/until/type filters as search_trades so an agent can scope to a chamber or window in one call.
ticker
get_ticker_activity
Which officials have disclosed trades in a given ticker.
trades
search_trades
Search disclosed trades by person, ticker, branch, role (Senate/House/title), buy/sell, conflict flag, minimum dollar amount, and date window. Returns newest first.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://potomacledger.com/mcp streamable-http answering 934 ms 1 min ago

Trades — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Trades do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: aggregates, get_person_trades, get_ticker_activity, list_conflicts, list_recent_trades, search_trades. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Trades working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 877 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Trades?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Trades need an API key?
No. Trades completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Trades?
It answers our handshake in 877 ms on average, which is faster than 8% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.