Finance MCP vs Luxalgo MCP Server
A side-by-side look at the Finance MCP and Luxalgo MCP Server MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Finance MCP for finance & fintech work as a local process; choose Luxalgo MCP Server 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 Finance MCP when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- Its auth model fits you: No auth required.
- You have the keys it needs:
SEC_USER_AGENT. - You want tools like
get_stock_quote, get_price_history, search_symbols.
Choose Luxalgo MCP Server when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Finance & Fintech domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- You want tools like
library_search, library_get_concept, library_get_indicator.
Feature & specification comparison
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Finance & Fintech | Finance & Fintech |
| Quality signal | 61/100 · Good | 67/100 · Great |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | No auth required | Not declared |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| Required env vars | SEC_USER_AGENT | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 1 | 101 |
| Directory activity | 6 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 8 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 11 | 48 |
| Full listing | View Finance MCP | View Luxalgo MCP Server |
Tools & capabilities
Finance MCP tools 11
get_stock_quoteLatest price and daily change for one or more stocks, ETFs, or indices, from Yahoo Finance. Use Yahoo-style symbols: AAPL, MSFT, VOO, ^GSPC (S&P 500), ^IXIC (Nasdaq), RELIANCE.NS (India), 7203.T (Japan). Call search_symbols first if you only have a company name. Returns a single point in time — use get_price_history for a series or a period return, and get_crypto_price for cryptocurrencies, which are not on Yahoo symbols. Prices may be delayed up to ~15 minutes and are not exchange-official, so do not treat them as execution prices. Symbols are looked up independently: one bad symbol does not fail the rest.get_price_historyHistorical OHLCV candles for a stock, ETF, index, or FX pair from Yahoo Finance, plus the period return and a high/low/average summary. Use this for 'how has NVDA done this year?' or any question about change over time; use get_stock_quote when you only need the current price. Does not cover cryptocurrencies. Intraday intervals (1m–1h) are only retained by Yahoo for short ranges — pair them with 1d/5d/1mo, and use 1d or coarser for 1y and beyond, or the response comes back empty. Candles with no trade are omitted, so gaps in the series are expected.search_symbolsResolve a company or fund name to a ticker symbol using Yahoo Finance search. Call this first whenever you have a name rather than a symbol — "Apple" → AAPL — then pass the symbol to get_stock_quote or get_price_history. Covers equities, ETFs, and indices across global exchanges, so the same company may return several listings; prefer the one whose exchange matches the market you want. For US-listed companies you need SEC data on, get_sec_filings accepts a company name directly and needs no symbol lookup.get_fx_rateConvert between two currencies at the latest published reference rate, with the change since the prior session. Returns both the rate and, when `amount` is given, the converted total. Major currencies come from the European Central Bank (published once per business day, so the rate is a daily fix rather than a live tick); pairs outside the ECB's ~30 currencies fall back to Yahoo. Use get_crypto_price for crypto — BTC and ETH are not currencies here. These are indicative mid-market rates, not dealable quotes, so they will not match what a bank charges.get_crypto_priceSpot price, 24h change, market cap, and 24h volume for specific cryptocurrencies you name, from CoinGecko. Use this when you know which coins you want; use get_crypto_market instead to rank the market or discover the largest coins. Accepts common tickers ("btc", "eth", "sol") or CoinGecko ids ("bitcoin", "matic-network"); unknown names are reported back rather than failing the whole call, so a typo returns the other coins. Prices are near-real-time but not exchange-official. Stocks and FX are not available here — use get_stock_quote and get_fx_rate.get_crypto_marketRanked table of the largest cryptocurrencies by market cap, with 24h and 7d performance, from CoinGecko. Use this to survey or discover the market — 'what are the biggest coins', 'what moved this week'. When you already know which coins you care about, use get_crypto_price instead: it takes explicit names and avoids pulling a whole ranking. Always returns the top N by market cap starting at rank 1; there is no paging or filtering, so a coin outside the top `limit` will not appear no matter how it performed.get_sec_filingsRecent SEC EDGAR filings for one US-listed company, newest first, with direct document URLs you can cite or fetch. Filter by form type (10-K annual report, 10-Q quarterly, 8-K material event, 4 insider trade, S-1 IPO, 13F fund holdings, DEF 14A proxy); an amended form such as 10-K/A is returned when you ask for its base form. Use this to find documents for a company you can already name. Use search_sec_filings instead to search filing text across all companies, and get_sec_financials to read reported numbers rather than locate documents. US SEC registrants only — non-US listings do not file with EDGAR.get_sec_financialsReported financial line items straight from a US company's XBRL filings — revenue, net income, EPS, assets, cash, operating cash flow and more — as an annual or quarterly time series. These are as-filed audited figures, not analyst estimates or forecasts, so prefer this over any market-data tool for fundamentals. Use get_sec_filings instead when you want the documents rather than the numbers. Each row is labelled by the period it covers; where a later filing restated a period, the most recently filed value is returned. Filers tag the same concept differently, so a concept alias is tried against several us-gaap tags and the response names the tag actually used — expect the tag to differ between companies. US SEC registrants only.search_sec_filingsSearch the full text of every SEC filing since 2001 to find which companies discuss a topic — e.g. "AI data center capex" in 10-Ks. Wrap a phrase in double quotes for exact matching; unquoted terms match loosely and return far more noise. Use this for discovery across companies. When you already know the company, get_sec_filings is more direct. Results are ranked by EDGAR's own relevance, which favours companies with your query in their *name* — a search for a common term may surface a company called after it ahead of substantive discussion. Totals above 10,000 are reported as approximate. Filings before 2001 are not indexed.get_insider_activityWhat a company's own officers, directors and 10% owners have been buying and selling in its stock, from their SEC Form 4 filings. Insiders must report within two business days, so this is the freshest disclosed signal about a company available anywhere. Crucially, it separates **open-market trades** — where someone actively chose to buy or sell — from **mechanical** activity like options vesting and shares withheld to pay the tax on that vesting. Most reported 'insider selling' is mechanical and means nothing; headlines routinely conflate the two. Read the open-market numbers, and treat the mechanical count as noise. US SEC registrants only. This reports what was disclosed and does not interpret it — insider buying and selling both have innocent explanations, and neither predicts the share price.get_economic_indicatorMacroeconomic time series by country from the World Bank — GDP, GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, population, government debt, trade balance and more — returned newest year first with year-over-year change. Use this for country-level economics; it says nothing about any individual company or security, which is what the market-data and SEC tools cover. Data is **annual only**, so it cannot answer questions about this month or this quarter, and reporting lags: the last one or two years are frequently unreported and are omitted rather than returned as zero. Coverage varies by country and indicator, so a valid pairing can still be empty.
Luxalgo MCP Server tools 48
library_searchSearch the LuxAlgo Library — the encyclopedia of trading and technical analysis. One query over 800+ concepts (alias-aware: 'stochastics' finds Stochastic Oscillator) and 800+ ready-to-use indicators. Start here whenever you have a name, informal term, or topic; results carry slugs for the get tools plus canonical URLs for citation.library_get_conceptExplain a trading concept: the Library's full write-up as markdown — definition, formula, how traders read it, and its indicator implementations. Use for any 'what is X / how does X work' question. Needs the exact slug — find it with library_search or library_list_concepts.library_get_indicatorDetails for one indicator: what it does, how to read it, family, concept links, preview image — plus whether its source code is available (fetch the code itself with library_get_source_code). Use when the user asks about a specific indicator.library_get_source_codeThe full, working source code of a Library indicator (works on TradingView). Kept separate from library_get_indicator because sources are long — call it only when the user wants the code itself.library_list_conceptsBrowse every trading and technical-analysis concept in the Library — paginated, optionally one family. Use to enumerate a topic area or find slugs for library_get_concept; for keyword lookup prefer library_search.library_list_indicatorsBrowse the indicator catalog with filters and server-side sorting (newest first by default). Filter by family, concept slug (implementations of one concept), tags (ids from library_list_tags, AND-combined), trading platform, or plan tier. Use for structured browsing — 'latest indicators', 'everything in the volatility family', 'indicators implementing liquidity sweeps'; for keyword discovery prefer library_search.library_list_tagsThe Library's indicator tag vocabulary (behavioral traits like 'Volatility', 'Trailing-Stop', 'Repainting Functionality'). Returns ids to pass as the tags filter of library_list_indicators — tags are orthogonal to the concept-family taxonomy.library_list_familiesThe Library's top-level taxonomy: 17 families of trading concepts (trend, momentum, SMC/ICT, statistics, …) with concept counts and hub links. The natural first call for orientation.library_get_familyA family's hub page as markdown — the written overview of that school of analysis plus its complete concept roster. Use after library_list_families, or when the user asks about a whole area like 'SMC' or 'Wyckoff'.propfirms_searchSearch LuxAlgo's prop-firm catalog (proprietary trading firms offering funded accounts). Combine firm filters (platforms, markets, payment/payout methods, country availability, Trustpilot, year founded) with nested challenge filters (account size, price, steps, profit split, trading rules) and offer filters — a firm matches when at least one of its challenges/offers matches all of them. Omit every filter to list all firms. Use include to nest the matching challenges, live offers, and the written overview; for one firm's full dossier prefer propfirms_get. Uncaptured (null) fields are omitted from results; nested challenges reference offers via offerIds into the firm-level offers list. This tool returns directory data (what exists and on what terms), not outcomes: for simulated pass odds on a challenge found here, use propfirms_pass_rates or propfirms_simulate with its firm and challenge ids.propfirms_getOne prop firm's full dossier by slug: general profile (platforms, markets, payments, Trustpilot, restricted countries), every challenge with its rules, live offers with promo codes and affiliate links, and the written overview (about, rules, payout policy, FAQ). Find slugs with propfirms_search. Uncaptured (null) fields are omitted; challenges reference applicable offers via offerIds into the firm-level offers list. For simulated pass odds on this firm's challenges (reference archetypes, same engine as luxalgo.com/prop-firms), use propfirms_pass_rates.propfirms_search_challengesSearch funded-account challenges across all visible prop firms. Filter by challenge rules (account size, fee, steps, profit split, drawdown mode, news/copy/auto trading, weekend holding, …) and by parent-firm properties. Pass propfirmId to list one firm's challenges, or challengeId to fetch specific ones. include=['offers'] returns a deduplicated top-level offers list, with each challenge referencing its applicable offers via offerIds (firm-wide offers included). Uncaptured (null) rule fields are omitted from results and never match filters. This returns each challenge's listed rules and terms, not outcomes: to simulate a challenge found here pass its ids to propfirms_simulate or propfirms_pass_rates, and to screen one strategy across many challenges at once use propfirms_validate_strategy.- +36 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.
Finance MCP
{
"mcpServers": {
"finance-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"finance-data-mcp"
],
"env": {
"SEC_USER_AGENT": "YOUR_SEC_USER_AGENT_HERE"
}
}
}
}
Luxalgo MCP Server
{
"mcpServers": {
"luxalgo-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@luxalgo/mcp"
]
}
}
}
Frequently asked questions
Finance MCP is categorized under Finance & Fintech and uses a local stdio subprocess. Luxalgo MCP Server belongs to Finance & Fintech and uses a local stdio subprocess. Pick Finance MCP for finance & fintech work and Luxalgo MCP Server 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.
Finance MCP is listed as free. Auth: no auth required. Luxalgo MCP Server is listed as free. 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 finance-mcp and luxalgo-mcp-server as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, Finance MCP has a quality signal of 61/100 (Good) with 6 views, 0 installs and 1 GitHub stars. Luxalgo MCP Server has 67/100 (Great) with 8 views, 0 installs and 101 GitHub stars.