MCP — live

Agent-ready alternative data, for indie traders.

Plug HedgeFriend into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client with one API key. Your agent can reach every HedgeFriend endpoint — SEC filings, insider trades, congressional disclosures, lobbying, layoffs, hiring, macro, and news sentiment — and finds the right one by asking. No glue code, no schemas to memorize, no scraping.

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Claude Desktop

chat

> Why did $NVDA sell off yesterday? Check insiders,
  congress, and news sentiment.

⏺ tool find_data (3 endpoints matched, free)
⏺ tool batch_requests (3 calls, 1 round-trip)

Three signals stand out:

1. Insiders were net sellers of $12.4M over the past 
   90 days across 8 distinct officers.
2. Two Senate members disclosed sales in the
   $15K–$50K range on 08/22 and 08/24.
3. Sentiment turned bearish (-0.31 avg,
   article count 3.2× baseline) after a Reuters piece
   on hyperscaler capex guidance.

Why an MCP

Skip the glue code. Your model calls the tools directly.

Pasting raw JSON into a prompt is not a research workflow. MCP lets your agent discover endpoints, batch related calls, and cite the exact tool and parameters it used — the way a human analyst would.

One key, every client

Same HedgeFriend API key you'd use with curl. Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and anything else that speaks MCP.

Discovery + batching built in

Your agent describes what it wants and find_data returns the endpoints that answer it — searching the catalog costs nothing. batch_requests then fans 20 calls out concurrently in one round-trip, so multi-signal questions stay fast.

Auth + rate limits inherit

No parallel auth story to configure. The MCP forwards your bearer token straight to the API; your daily quota is the same one you see in the dashboard.

Setup

Three steps. Under a minute.

1
Grab your API key
Free tier is live at /signup — 500 requests/day, all endpoints. No card required.
2
Paste one config block
Add the JSON below to your client's MCP config file. Same shape for Claude Desktop and Cursor; one shell command for Claude Code.
3
Ask your agent anything
Restart the client. The HedgeFriend tools show up automatically. Try one of the example questions below.

Claude Desktopclaude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hedgefriend": {
      "url": "https://mcp.hedgefriend.dev/mcp/",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer hf_..." }
    }
  }
}

Cursor.cursor/mcp.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hedgefriend": {
      "url": "https://mcp.hedgefriend.dev/mcp/",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer hf_..." }
    }
  }
}

Claude Codeshell

bash

claude mcp add hedgefriend \
  --transport http \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer hf_..." \
  https://mcp.hedgefriend.dev/mcp/

Example questions

Is NVDA insider activity net-buying or net-selling in the last 90 days?
Which S&P 500 tickers had congressional purchases before an FDA action?
How has SNAP's engineering headcount changed since the last 10-Q?
Show me any WARN filings from Tesla suppliers in the last month.
Correlate PLTR Wikipedia pageviews with news sentiment over 6 months.
What did the most recent DEF 14A say about ORCL CEO comp?

Tool catalog

Every endpoint, one bearer token.

Rather than one tool per endpoint, the server gives your agent a way to search the catalog and a way to call anything in it — so every route in the docs is reachable, including ones added after you set the client up. Shortcuts cover the handful of calls almost every session starts with.

Discovery

Free — these never touch your quota.

find_data
Ask a question in plain English, get the endpoints that answer it
describe_data
Parameters, trading signal, and a worked example for one endpoint
get_catalog
The whole endpoint directory in one call

Query

Where your quota actually goes.

call_api
Call any endpoint in the catalog — the general-purpose tool
batch_requests
Fan out up to 20 calls in one round-trip
search_symbols
Resolve a company name to a ticker
get_sec_filings
10-K / 10-Q / 8-K / Form 4 by ticker
get_insider_trades
Individual Form 4 transactions
get_financials
XBRL fundamentals (Revenue, NetIncome, EPS, …)
get_congressional_trades
STOCK Act House/Senate disclosures
get_news_sentiment
Daily sentiment time series

Account

Housekeeping your agent can do itself.

get_usage
Check your daily quota and remaining requests
submit_feedback
Flag stale, missing, or wrong data for triage

Give your model a research desk.

Free tier is live. One key, one config block, and Claude can pull insider trades, congressional disclosures, and news sentiment for any ticker.

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