alpaca-mcp-server and finance-mcp
These are complements: Alpaca provides real-time market data and trading execution capabilities, while Finance-MCP adds web research and entity extraction layers for deeper fundamental analysis before making trading decisions.
About alpaca-mcp-server
alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server
Alpaca’s official MCP Server lets you trade stocks, ETFs, crypto, and options, run data analysis, and build strategies in plain English directly from your favorite LLM tools and IDEs
Built with FastMCP and OpenAPI, it dynamically generates trading tools from Alpaca's API specifications rather than hand-crafting them, enabling automatic schema alignment and toolset filtering via `ALPACA_TOOLSETS`. Integrates with Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and PyCharm through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) stdio transport, allowing LLMs to execute trading operations with real-time market data access and portfolio management directly within IDE environments.
About finance-mcp
FlowLLM-AI/finance-mcp
LLM-powered MCP server for building financial deep-research agents, integrating web search, Crawl4AI scraping, and entity extraction into composable analysis flows.
Built on the FlowLLM framework, it combines YAML-based zero-code flow composition with 20+ pre-built financial analysis workflows and multi-protocol transport support (stdio/SSE/HTTP). Integrates Tushare for A-share data, Crawl4AI for web scraping, DashScope/Tavily for search, and includes intelligent multi-level caching to reduce API costs while supporting both MCP clients and FastMCP Python clients.
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