Backtesting Arena vs Bykaranteli MCP
A side-by-side look at the Backtesting Arena and Bykaranteli MCP MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Backtesting Arena for finance & fintech work over a hosted endpoint; choose Bykaranteli MCP for finance & fintech as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Which MCP server should you choose?
Choose Backtesting Arena when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
- You prefer a remote HTTP/SSE transport.
- Its auth model fits you: API key required.
- You want tools like
arena_get_pulse, arena_get_cycle, arena_get_spot_price.
Choose Bykaranteli MCP when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- Its auth model fits you: API key required.
- You have the keys it needs:
BYKARANTELI_API_KEY. - You want tools like
get_market_indices, get_liquidations, get_etf_flows.
Feature & specification comparison
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Finance & Fintech | Finance & Fintech |
| Quality signal | 60/100 · Good | 64/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Remote HTTP/SSE | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | API key required | API key required |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Required env vars | None listed | BYKARANTELI_API_KEY |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 2 |
| Directory activity | 6 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 3 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 49 | 68 |
| Full listing | View Backtesting Arena | View Bykaranteli MCP |
Tools & capabilities
Backtesting Arena tools 49
arena_get_pulseHow hot is the Bitcoin market today? Daily 0-100 heat score for the Bitcoin market, aggregated from 8 components (BTC-Cycle, F&G, Altcoin-Season, Bullmarket-Ampel, Funding-Rate, Hash-Ribbons, Mayer-Multiple, MVRV-Z). Returns score, band label, color, 7d/30d delta, verdict, components breakdown, plus score_percentile ranking today’s score against its own history (e.g. 42 = 44th percentile — how hot/cold vs history, not just the raw number). score_semantics says which value you hold: the daily snapshot frozen once a day by the cron, or — before that cron has run for today — a live preliminary that still moves and whose percentile/deltas compare against frozen snapshots. band_driver names the number the band follows. Pass fields="full" for `drivers[]`: each component with value, weight, contribution (they add up to the score) and percentile_rank against its own history. [Free tier]arena_get_cycleCrypto cycle position — where are we in the cycle? Default BTC: point-in-time 9-indicator aggregation (Pi-Cycle Top & Bottom, Mayer Multiple, weekly RSI, 200-week-MA distance, halving position, Fear & Greed, BTC-dominance trend, mining-difficulty trend — each indicator’s 0-100 sub-score is in the score_* fields; the weights are in drivers[] under fields="full"; components without input are excluded and weights renormalized, see indicator_coverage). Includes an `ath` block (E32): ATH on UTC daily-close basis with ath_date, days_since_ath and drawdown_from_ath_pct vs BOTH the scoring price and the live spot. Pass asset=ETH or asset=SOL for a per-coin cycle read built from the transferable price-derived indicators (Mayer, weekly-RSI, 200-week-MA distance) with renormalized weights; BTC-native indicators (halving, dominance, mining, F&G, Pi-Cycle) are returned as `not_applicable` rather than faked. All return raw + Z-Score, signal enum, and a `percentiles` block ranking each indicator against that asset’s own history. The `signal` enum is a FIXED SCORE-BAND LABEL (<25 accumulation · 25–45 recovery · 45–60 expansion · 60–75 distribution · ≥75 overheated), not an independent market-phase detection: the 45–60 band is the neutral middle, so a mid-band score reads "expansion" even in a drawdown market — the label describes the score band, not the market. BTC additionally returns `highlights[]` (rule-based markers for currently unusual indicator values — descriptive, versioned ruleset; empty array = nothing unusual) and `price_context` (price at scoring time vs live spot with drift % — the scores rest on the scoring-time price). Point-in-time scored — not reconstructable from a generic price API. The volatility series itself is arena_get_volatility_history; this tool carries the regime context around it. score_fields_note explains the four score fields: z_score/z_adj_score are the composite standardized against its own history and mapped back onto the 0-100 scale, NOT statistical z-values; halving_context.ath_days_after_halving puts the observed cycle high next to days_since_halving. Pass fields="full" (BTC) for `drivers[]`: each indicator sub-score with its renormalized weight, contribution (they add up to raw_score — the input of the z_adj_score that `signal` follows) and percentile_rank against its own history. Related: arena_get_historical_analog (what followed states like this one), arena_get_bullmarket_ampel, arena_get_pulse. [Free tier]arena_get_spot_priceCurrent BTC, ETH and SOL spot price — what is Bitcoin (or ETH/SOL) worth right now? Live USDT-quoted last price plus 24h change %, high and low from Binance. Use this to anchor the connector’s own analytics (cycle, historical-analog, gem scores) with the current market price instead of switching to web search mid-analysis. [Free tier]arena_get_stablecoin_supplyAggregate stablecoin supply (crypto-liquidity proxy) — is the liquidity impulse turning or accelerating? macro_regime only gives the 30d delta; this exposes the trend: current supply, 30d/90d change (USD + %) plus a daily time series (`days`, default 365; `resolution` states points and spacing) so direction and speed are visible, not just a single delta. Read `impulse` for what the supply change is doing — four states (accelerating / decelerating / reversal / flat). The neighbouring `acceleration_usd` is the signed difference last-30d minus prior-30d and gets LARGE exactly when the trend reverses, while the older boolean `accelerating` requires the same direction AND a bigger magnitude; a reversal therefore shows a big `acceleration_usd` next to `accelerating: false`. Source DefiLlama peggedUSD. [Free tier]arena_get_etf_flowsSpot-ETF net flows (USD millions) — is the flow impulse turning or accelerating? The summary only gives point-in-time deltas; this exposes the trend: 30d/90d net flow, a direction label (inflows/outflows/flat) and a daily series (every US trading day: cumulative inflow + that day's net flow; `resolution` states points and spacing) so direction and speed are visible, not just a single delta. Read `impulse` for what the flow is doing — it has four states (accelerating / decelerating / reversal / flat) and is the field to quote. Two neighbouring fields measure different things and are easy to confuse: `acceleration_usd_m` is the signed difference last-30d minus prior-30d and gets LARGE precisely when the flow reverses, while the older boolean `accelerating` requires the same direction AND a bigger magnitude — so a swing from outflows to inflows shows a big positive `acceleration_usd_m` together with `accelerating: false`, which is correct and reads like a contradiction. `impulse` reports that case as 'reversal'. When `impulse` is 'reversal', `reversal_recovered_pct` says how much of the preceding counter-move has actually come back, with its denominator in `reversal_basis_usd_m` — quote it alongside, because a reversal in direction is not yet a reversal in the stock. Both are null otherwise. `source_inconsistencies` lists the days on which the source's own daily net flow and the change of its cumulative disagree (BTC: 2 of ~700 days, 2026-04-23/24 — the two-day sum matches, the day split does not); cumulative deltas and the 30d/90d windows are unaffected, per-day sums over those dates are. NYSE closing days that the source still lists come back with net_flow_usd_m null and market_closed: true (a closed market is not a zero flow). `availability` states when a day's flow was first known (measured from our own ingest; the source has no publication time) — use it for point-in-time work. For long windows pass `format: 'columns'` (parallel arrays, far smaller). Default BTC; pass asset=ETH, SOL, XRP, LTC, HBAR, DOGE, LINK, AVAX or DOT (US spot ETFs; the last seven have stored history only from 2026-09-21, so their 30d/90d windows are null until covered — `note` says so). No ZEC or NEAR ETF data. Source SoSoValue. [Free tier]arena_get_altcoin_seasonIs it altcoin season? Daily Altcoin-Season indicator (v7 Native-Filter methodology). Returns BTC-, alt- and stablecoin dominance, the 4 Layer-1 signals (alt_dominance, total_market_cap, btc_dominance, stable_dominance — weekly smoothed-Heikin-Ashi directions; weights in methodology.layer1), overall color (red/yellow/green) and Layer 2: altcoin_season_pct (share of top-50 alts beating BTC over 90 days) with altcoin_season_pct_basis (beating / eligible / expected — coins without a 90-day return drop out of the denominator) and altcoin_season_pct_provenance (grade full/partial/thin; fields="full" names the missing coins), plus the top-30 CoinGecko snapshot. [Free tier]arena_get_fear_greedHow fearful or greedy is the market right now? Crypto Fear & Greed Index (alternative.me). Returns the current `value` (0-100) and `classification` (extreme fear / fear / neutral / greed / extreme greed) as their own fields, plus `history` — the last 90 daily readings by default, so you can see whether today is a move or a plateau. The window is capped in SIZE but free in POSITION: `end_date` moves it anywhere in the history since 2018 (e.g. end_date=2025-10-06 reads the sentiment around the October 2025 top), and the `range` block states requested / granted / available days with the reason — a short series here is a window, not a young index. On Pro and Elite two Arena-derived blocks add what the upstream index does not publish: `cadence` (how far smoothed sentiment has travelled versus ~90 days ago) and `tempo` (how FAST the index is moving — 7d and 30d change ranked as a rolling percentile against three years of same-direction moves, not a fixed threshold; rank compares with its own history, not with "normal"). On Free both blocks are present but their values are null with a stated reason. For the regime around a reading use arena_get_cycle; for what followed comparable sentiment states use arena_get_historical_analog(preset="deep_fear"). [Free tier · cadence/tempo Pro+]arena_get_bullmarket_ampelIs this still a bull market? Bitcoin Bullmarket-Ampel current state (0-5 active stages). Returns active_count, a stages[] breakdown (each stage with key, label, active and `since` = first day of its current state; null when the state predates the 400-day lookup) and stage_history — per day active_count PLUS all five per-stage booleans, so which stage flipped when is readable directly (history_days 1-365, default 30). Higher count = more bull-market signals firing. Stages evaluate weekly 20W/50W-MA conditions. [Free tier]arena_get_funding_rateAre longs or shorts paying right now? Latest BTC perpetual funding rate, averaged across up to 4 exchanges (Binance, Bybit, OKX, Deribit; 8h settlement cadence). Returns the day's averaged value plus each exchange's own value (no moving average or Z-score — for the history use arena_get_funding_rate_history via arena_call_extended). Positive = longs pay shorts (bullish bias), negative = shorts pay longs (bearish bias). Read `coverage` before comparing values across dates: it says how many exchanges stand behind that day (4 = full average, 1 = a single exchange), and a day-over-day move can be a change in composition rather than in the market; `venues_present`/`venues_missing` name the exchanges. `provenance` grades the average (full = all exchanges, partial, thin = under half — never a basis for a verdict); fields="full" adds the venue spread in bps and the min/max interval of the venue values. A value of exactly 0.0001 (0.01 % per 8h) on many days is the exchanges' base-rate clamp on USDT perpetuals, not a cap in our pipeline: it means "no premium beyond the base rate", and values above it are real market readings. [Free tier]arena_get_macro_regimeWhat is the macro backdrop doing? Daily Macro Regime snapshot from 18 components in 6 tiers (Liquidity 30%, Financial Conditions 20%, Risk Appetite 15%, Crypto Liquidity 10%, Business Cycle 15%, Inflation/Real Rates 10%). FRED-sourced. Returns composite_score (0-100), regime_label (risk_off/neutral/risk_on_leaning/risk_on), cycle_phase_label (contraction/early_expansion/mid_expansion/late_expansion), matrix_quadrant (sweet_spot/late_cycle_warning/crisis/recovery), tier_scores (6 sub-scores), components (flat key/value of all 18), plus stale_components_detail dating each stale input (last_good_date + age_days + discontinued flag for series the upstream has retired for good) so freshness is quantified, not a vague caveat. Two component keys mean something narrower than their name suggests, so read them carefully: `vix_score` is the derived 0-100 score (a value of 71 means VIX around 18.6), NOT the VIX index level — the raw Cboe level is not redistributed over this channel; and `broad_dollar_index` is FRED DTWEXBGS (Broad USD Index, Jan 2006 = 100), NOT the ICE DXY, so readings near 120 are normal. `fed_funds_rate` is FRED FEDFUNDS, the monthly AVERAGE effective rate (lags; not the daily DFF, not the target range); `global_m2_yoy` is NOT M2 but the YoY change of G3 central-bank balance sheets (Fed+ECB+BoJ in USD) — it can fall while US M2 hits a record. component_notes carries these definitions in the payload. The former names `vix` and `dxy` were removed on 2026-09-01 after their announced deprecation window; `consumer_confidence_value` went with them (OECD retired the series, frozen since 2024-01-01, never weighted in the composite). `provenance` says how many of the 18 weighted components formed today’s composite (grade full/partial/thin; null for rows written before 2026-10-13, when coverage was not recorded); missing components drop out and the tier renormalizes, a tier with no input at all scores a stand-in 50 and is named in `degraded.empty_tiers`. Pass fields="full" for the named missing components, sources and per-tier provenance. `move_index` and `fed_funds_cuts_priced` are always null and never weighted — slots without a source, not outages. [Free tier]arena_get_btc_market_structureIs the trend up or down, and how fresh is the flip? Daily Bitcoin market structure from 1000-bar Phantomflow adaptation (BTCUSDT 1d). Returns current_trend (up/down/sideways), last trend change timestamp, counts of waves + fractals, last-5 fractals on each side (up = pivot highs, down = pivot lows), and trend_context: previous trend + its duration, flip_age_days, and a descriptive historical flip base rate over the SAME 1000 bars (total flips, share reverted within 5 bars, median trend duration) — a fresh same-day flip is the least settled observation — the base rate tells you how often such flips reverted historically, so you can weight the current one yourself. Educational analysis of price action. [Free tier]arena_get_key_levelsWhich price levels matter above and below spot? Reproducible Bitcoin structural levels on BOTH sides of spot, in TWO distinct provenance classes. (1) resistance/support: swing-pivot clusters — where past pivot highs+lows cluster into price zones (touch-count, band, last-touch date, signed distance), resistance above spot, support below, nearest-first. (2) indicator_levels.above / .below: named indicator STANDS as marks — 200-day & 200-week simple moving averages, short-term-holder cost basis, Pi-Cycle legs — each carrying its source, formula and as_of date. The two classes are kept separate on purpose: pivots are where price REACTED before, indicator levels are where an indicator STANDS now. Both are measured price clusters: they say where trading has concentrated, not where anyone defends a level. [Free tier]- +37 more on the listing page
Bykaranteli MCP tools 68
get_market_indicesCall this when the user asks about overall crypto market sentiment or macro state: the Fear & Greed index (today and yesterday), Bitcoin dominance percentage, total market cap, or the Retail Euphoria composite. Live values refreshed about every 30 minutes.get_liquidationsCall this when the user asks how much was liquidated in crypto futures, whether longs or shorts got flushed, or for liquidation history. Returns daily long and short liquidation totals in USD per symbol and exchange, recorded from ByKaranteli's own stream collectors on every liquidation venue it counts, listed on bykaranteli.com/coverage (recorded events, a floor, not estimates). One row per finalized UTC day, symbol and exchange; history begins 2026-07-30 and grows daily. Without symbol, rows holds the first 30 rows (newest day, largest first) while summary covers every matching row; pass symbol or limit (up to 400) for more rows.get_etf_flowsCall this when the user asks about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana or XRP spot ETF flows: daily net inflows or outflows, cumulative flow since launch, or total net assets of the US spot ETFs (IBIT, FBTC, ETHA, XRPC and the rest). Returns one row per finalized US trading day and asset with net inflow, total net assets, cumulative inflow since launch and value traded, all in USD. History by asset: BTC and ETH since 2025-05-20, SOL since 2025-10-28, XRP since 2026-09-08.get_funding_heatmapCall this when the user asks for the full current funding table across the ~30 most traded Binance perps (28-30 rows; contracts without a live funding print are skipped), or the funding rate of one specific coin. For a pre-ranked top-10 of the most extreme funding rates, use get_top_movers instead. Returns per-symbol funding rate (per settlement interval), 24h open interest change and 24h price change for the most traded Binance USDT-M perpetuals. Positive funding means longs pay shorts.get_funding_arbitrageCall this when the user asks about funding arbitrage, funding rate differences between exchanges, or delta-neutral carry trades. Compares funding across every venue on the board, from Binance, OKX and Bybit to Hyperliquid, dYdX and the smaller perp venues fed by the venue snapshot, for 12 major perps and returns the best long/short venue per symbol with gross and net annualized APR (net of taker fees and weekly rebalance cost). Each row lists its first 5 venue legs; pass symbol for every leg of one perp.get_pressure_scoresCall this when the user asks which coins are crowded or over-leveraged, or asks for the pressure/derivatives-stress score of specific coins. For a quick top-10 ranking of the highest-stress coins right now, use get_top_movers instead. Each symbol gets a 0-100 composite score built from funding rate, 1h/4h/24h open interest deltas and basis, with a LONG/SHORT/NEUTRAL direction and a plain-language regime label.get_top_moversCall this when the user asks what is moving in crypto derivatives right now, which coins have the biggest open interest changes, the most extreme funding, the widest basis, or the highest derivatives stress. Returns four top-10 lists in one call.get_cot_positioningCall this when the user asks how hedge funds or institutions are positioned in Bitcoin or Ethereum, or about the CFTC Commitments of Traders report. Returns net positions in contracts, week-over-week changes, open interest and notable extremes/streaks, from official CFTC data updated every Friday. Note: a large share of hedge fund shorts is the market-neutral basis trade, so the weekly change carries more signal than the level.get_options_snapshotCall this when the user asks where the big options bets sit, about call/put walls, gamma exposure (GEX), the zero-gamma level, implied volatility (DVOL) or the IV term structure for Bitcoin or Ethereum, across options venues or on one venue. Daily snapshot of the listed option chains of every options venue we record, summed by default or one venue with venue: the call wall (largest call open interest above spot) and put wall (largest put open interest below spot), the largest bars on the whole axis, top strikes by open interest, put/call ratio, dealer hedging map, ATM IV by expiry (calls and puts interpolated at the money, iv_source names the venue whose quotes price the chain), each venue's open interest (venues_included), and per expiry the open interest by side, the max pain strike (where the open contracts as a group pay out the least at settlement, not a price target) and the one-sigma implied move the ATM IV prices (expiries). DVOL is Deribit's index whatever the venue.get_coinbase_premiumCall this when the user asks whether US investors are buying or selling Bitcoin or Ethereum, about the Coinbase Premium, or what the cash-and-carry basis trade pays. Returns the latest daily premium in percent, 7-day average, same-sign streak, the last 30 days, and annualized quarterly carry yields. History since 2017; positive premium = US buying pressure. The kimchi and Turkey premium daily rows cover the last 7 days; pass days (up to 90) for more.get_flow_toxicityCall this when the user asks whether informed or toxic order flow is building, about VPIN, or whether market makers are under pressure in Bitcoin, Ethereum or Solana. Returns the current VPIN (0 = balanced, 1 = fully one-sided), its 90-day percentile, the danger threshold and the 24h average. Elevated readings historically precede volatility; VPIN says nothing about direction.get_options_flowCall this when the user asks what big options players are buying, about block trades, or whether call or put premium dominates today. Returns 24h call vs put premium bought (net of the sold legs of the same multi-leg block or combo, so a spread counts its net premium), the block-trade share, the multi-leg structure count, and the largest prints of the last 48 hours with strikes, premium, IV, structure id and venue (Deribit or OKX). Updated every 15 minutes.- +56 more on the listing page
Ready-to-paste client configs
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
Backtesting Arena
{
"mcpServers": {
"backtesting-arena": {
"url": "https://tradingstrategies.work/api/mcp"
}
}
}
Bykaranteli MCP
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-69": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"bykaranteli-mcp"
],
"env": {
"BYKARANTELI_API_KEY": "YOUR_BYKARANTELI_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}
Frequently asked questions
Backtesting Arena is categorized under Finance & Fintech and uses a remote HTTP/SSE transport. Bykaranteli MCP belongs to Finance & Fintech and uses a local stdio subprocess. Pick Backtesting Arena for finance & fintech work and Bykaranteli MCP for finance & fintech.
Copy the mcpServers block from the config section on this page into your client's config (for example claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json), then fully restart the client.
Backtesting Arena is listed as freemium — a free tier with paid plans. Auth: api key required. Bykaranteli MCP is listed as freemium — a free tier with paid plans. Auth: api key required. If a server needs environment variables such as API keys, define them under the env key in your client's MCP config.
Yes. MCP clients support multiple servers: add backtesting-arena and mcp-69 as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, Backtesting Arena has a quality signal of 60/100 (Good) with 6 views, 0 installs and 0 GitHub stars. Bykaranteli MCP has 64/100 (Good) with 3 views, 0 installs and 2 GitHub stars.