# YFinance Trader

> Use this tool when you need to access real-time stock market data and trading capabilities, or to solve problems related to financial analysis, investment research, and market monitoring. It provides six specialized tools for retrieving stock quotes, company overviews, and other financial data, and accepts natural language queries as input, outputting comprehensive and accurate market information. Ideal for use cases involving equity and cryptocurrency data analysis, it offers a robust interface for retrieving and analyzing financial data.

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

## Description

YFinance Trader MCP Tool provides real-time stock market data and trading capabilities for Claude Desktop through the yfinance library. Developed as an adaptation of the mcp-stocks project, it offers six specialized tools for retrieving stock quotes, company overviews, historical price data, symbol searches, analyst recommendations, and insider transactions. The implementation uses the MCP library directly instead of FastAPI, with comprehensive error handling and support for both equity and limited cryptocurrency data, making it particularly valuable for financial analysis, investment research, and market monitoring directly through natural language queries.

## 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/saintdoresh-yfinance-trader)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/saintdoresh/yfinance-trader-mcp-claudedesktop>

## 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": "saintdoresh-yfinance-trader"
    }
  }
}
```

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

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