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Show HN: Build AI Trading Agents in Cursor/Claude with an MCP Server (financialdata.net)

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Connect Your AI to Institutional-Grade Market Intelligence

Plug any AI client, from ChatGPT to custom agents, directly into our financial data engine. Get real-time stock prices, fundamentals, institutional trading insights, and other financial data delivered through a universal Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.

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munch-o-man
how is this any different than the real time stock prices I can get online anyways? I can already ask an agent to analyze stuff for a stock. I'm confused what this offers that is worth paying for. I am also very suspicious of any AI project involving money where all that is posted is a website where I can sign up but no code is shared.
financial-data
You add the URL https://financialdata.net/mcp?key=API_KEY to ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or any other AI, and the AI instantly has access to our vast database of financial data. The difference is that while a standard agent "analyzes" by summarizing web snippets, the MCP server gives it direct tool access to raw, structured metrics. This ensures the analysis is based on real numbers rather than guesses from some scraped content.