Gale Finance

Gale Finance MCP Server

Risk and return metrics for stocks, ETFs, crypto and commodities, from Gale Finance, for AI assistants.

Ask your assistant things like "What's the Sortino ratio of gold?" or "How has gold performed against bitcoin over the long run?" With this server connected, it answers with the figures Gale publishes and links the Gale page each number comes from.

https://www.gale.finance/mcp

The server is free and read-only, and needs no account or API key. It returns computed metrics, such as Sharpe and Sortino ratios, volatility, drawdowns, tail risk, correlation and calendar-year returns. It does not return price quotes or price history.

This repository holds the documentation and the Claude Code plugin. The server runs on gale.finance; its source is not published here.

Connect

Client	How
Claude (claude.ai, Desktop)	Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. Name: Gale Finance, URL: https://www.gale.finance/mcp, no authentication
Claude Code	claude mcp add --transport http gale-finance https://www.gale.finance/mcp, or install the plugin below
Cursor	One-click install, or add {"mcpServers":{"gale-finance":{"url":"https://www.gale.finance/mcp"}}} to ~/.cursor/mcp.json
VS Code	One-click install, or add a server with type http and the URL above
Other clients	Any client that supports remote MCP servers over streamable HTTP: use the URL above with no authentication

Claude Code plugin

The plugin adds the server and a short skill that tells Claude when to use each tool.

/plugin marketplace add sidko/gale-finance-mcp
/plugin install gale-finance@gale-finance

Tools

Tool	Answers questions like	Returns
get_risk_return_metrics	"What's the Sortino ratio of gold?"	Return, CAGR, volatility, Sharpe, Sortino and max drawdown for the 1-year window and the asset's long window (5 years or since inception)
get_downside_risk	"What are the tail risks for bitcoin?"	Daily 5% VaR, expected shortfall, skew, excess kurtosis, the largest drawdowns with recovery dates, and best and worst days
compare_assets	"How has gold performed vs bitcoin historically?"	The 1-year comparison, a calendar-year comparison, or the long-term scorecard with year-by-year returns. For pairs Gale has not published, it gives each asset's own metrics side by side
rank_assets_by_metric	"Which crypto had the best Sharpe last year?"	Up to 25 assets ranked by one metric, with an optional asset-type filter
find_assets	"Do you cover Hyperliquid?"	Matching assets, with the comparisons and scorecards Gale publishes for each

Every tool is read-only. Each answer starts with a sentence you can quote and ends with a source line naming the Gale page and the date the data runs through.

Example questions

Question	Tool used
What's the Sortino ratio of gold?	get_risk_return_metrics
How has gold performed vs bitcoin historically?	compare_assets
What are the tail risks for bitcoin?	get_downside_risk
Did Bitcoin beat the S&P 500 in 2024?	compare_assets
Which crypto had the best Sharpe ratio over the last year?	rank_assets_by_metric
Compare Nvidia and Costco on risk over the past year.	compare_assets

Data and methodology

• Coverage: about 200 assets across stocks, ETFs, crypto and commodities, with several hundred published pair comparisons and long-term scorecards.
• Freshness: the server serves the same figures as the published site and updates with each site release. Each answer states its data-through date.
• Method: crypto is annualized over 365 days and stocks and ETFs over 252. Risk-free rates come from US Treasury bill yields (FRED). Single-asset metrics use each asset's full window. See the methodology and the glossary.
• Not included: prices, price history, and "what if you had invested" calculations.

Gale Finance publishes educational data, not investment advice.

Privacy

The server logs one line per request: the tool, the Gale page it resolved to, the length of any search text (never the text itself), the result count, the timing and the User-Agent. It does not log your conversation, and it needs no account. See the privacy policy and the terms.

Support

Email [email protected] or open an issue. Include the client you use and the question you asked.

License

The documentation in this repository is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Gale Finance data returned by the server is covered by the Gale Finance terms.