About Fincept
Fincept is a hosted financial-data MCP server for analysts and other MCP clients, offering market, research and analytics tools through Fincept Terminal. Its catalog spans market data, portfolio analysis, backtesting and paper trading.
Key features
- 01Market quotes, candles and options data
- 02Economic data and SEC filings
- 03Portfolio analytics and backtests
- 04Paper portfolios and trading
- 05Crypto and alternative data
- 06Discover and call catalog tools
Use cases
- 01Review quotes and historical market data
- 02Screen stocks using technical indicators
- 03Build and assess portfolio allocations
- 04Run strategy backtests and forecasts
MCP support
A hosted Streamable HTTP MCP server at `https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp`, authenticated with OAuth 2.1. It exposes Fincept's data and analytics tools to MCP clients.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http in-fincept https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp{"mcpServers":{"in-fincept":{"type":"http","url":"https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"in-fincept":{"type":"http","url":"https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"in-fincept":{"type":"http","url":"https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"in-fincept":{"serverUrl":"https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEFincept MCP
Hosted Model Context Protocol server for Fincept Terminal. It gives Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and any other MCP client access to markets data, research and analytics, through 443 platform tools and 17 engines.
- Endpoint:
https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp(Streamable HTTP) - Auth: OAuth 2.1 browser sign-in with your Fincept account. You don't need an API key.
- Plan: any Fincept Exclusive plan: Exclusive, Exclusive+ or Exclusive Pro (pricing)
- Docs: docs.fincept.in
- Registry:
in.fincept/mcpon the official MCP Registry
Connect
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user fincept https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp
Then run /mcp, pick fincept and choose Authenticate.
Codex
codex mcp add fincept --url https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp
Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json)
{ "mcpServers": { "fincept": { "url": "https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp" } } }
VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)
{ "servers": { "fincept": { "type": "http", "url": "https://enterprise.fincept.in/mcp" } } }
Any other client that supports remote HTTP servers with OAuth works too. The first call opens fincept.in in your browser so you can authorize the client.
What's included
| Area | Covers |
|---|---|
| Markets | Quotes, OHLCV candles, option chains, futures curves, fundamentals, funds, symbol search |
| Data and filings | Global economic series, SEC filings, deals, economic calendar |
| Analytics and backtests | Portfolio analytics, screeners, option models, strategy backtests and sweeps |
| Portfolios and paper trading | Portfolios, ledgers, limits and the Fincept Paper account |
| News and alternative data | News, sentiment, monitors, maritime, trade and geopolitical data |
| Crypto | Venues, markets, derivatives, accounts and DeFi (read-only) |
Engines: Scanner (live screens of every market on about 4,000 fields), Performance (performance reports, drawdowns, risk parity, overfitting checks), Stats, Forecast, TS Forecast, Volatility, Panel, Quant, Technicals (201 indicators, 61 candlestick patterns), Change Points, Regimes, Copula, Allocation, Portfolio Optimizer, Portfolio Lab, Multi-Period, and Pricing (curves, bonds, swaps, credit and options).
How it works
- Discovery: the server lists a small core set of tools.
fincept_search_tools,fincept_describe_toolandfincept_call_toolreach every other tool in the catalog. - Results: every tool returns the same structured result. Large results are stored and can be read page by page.
- Credits: tools use the same credits and quotas as the terminal.
- No real money: trading tools only reach the Fincept Paper account.
Example prompts
Using Fincept, get the latest quote for AAPL and the last 5 daily candles.
Using Fincept, fit an ARIMA(1,1,1) to the last 500 daily closes of ^NSEI and forecast 10 days.
Using Fincept, build a hierarchical risk parity portfolio from SPY, TLT, GLD and QQQ over 3 years.
Using Fincept, find S&P 500 stocks with RSI under 30 trading above their 200-day average.
Links
- Documentation: https://docs.fincept.in
- Website: https://fincept.in
- Support: open an issue
This repository also holds the source of the documentation site. The site's pages are the .mdx files listed in docs.json.
Comments
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