Trades MCP Server

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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 91 days of history · worst day 99%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

731 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Trades missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

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.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add trades --transport http https://potomacledger.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "trades": {
      "type": "http",
      "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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://potomacledger.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	730 ms	1 min ago

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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 731 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 in the form 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 731 ms on average, which is faster than 12% 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.