# YFinance Trader

> Use this tool when you need to access real-time stock market data and trading capabilities for financial analysis, investment research, or building trading applications. It provides six tools for retrieving stock quotes, company information, and other market data, handling errors with informative messages. Ideal for use cases requiring up-to-date market information without incurring direct API costs.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/luigiajah-yfinance-trader  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/luigiajah-yfinance-trader

## Description

This MCP server provides real-time stock market data and trading capabilities using the yfinance library. It offers six tools for accessing stock quotes, company information, historical price data, symbol search, analyst recommendations, and insider transactions. The implementation handles errors gracefully, returning informative error messages when operations fail. Ideal for financial analysis, investment research, and building trading applications that require up-to-date market information without direct API costs.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.64
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-02

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** finance
- **Updated:** 2026-09-02

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/luigiajah-yfinance-trader)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/luigiajah/mcp-stocks>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "luigiajah-yfinance-trader"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/luigiajah-yfinance-trader` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/luigiajah-yfinance-trader/pull`

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