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Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

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Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

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Yikes! I can only imagine an LLM hallucinating my portfolio to zero.

It may not hallucinate yours to zero, or mine, or franks, or Mary's, but at some point it will do it to someone. That's the issue I have with these approaches *at scale*. I'm sure one day we'll get 100.00% reliable outputs such that autonomous agents can do this, however that's not today.

We have those today, it's just not called AI, it's called things like idempotent APIs

Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

#22
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you benchmark it against holding the same value in S&P 500 or similar ETF over the same period?

they said their paper account did 2% over a few months, which is not beating the s&p 500, and is probably why they said "someone could make money off this, but not me"

I'm curious because 2% over the last few months while the S&P 500 is tanking might be interesting, but doing worse than the S&P 500 over the same period is less so.

Hell, that's lower than inflation.

It may be no better than flipping coins.

Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

#23
post #5
post #2

I’ve been doing this as well it also works well when you hook it up to Edgar or feed in investor relations documents or earnings transcripts. You can extract a lot of data at scale for regressions using small models with few shot prompts running locally.

What do you mean by "regressions"?

Scraping the documents with llm to generate numerical metrics and applying statistics on numbers

Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

#25
MCP everywhere is going to be such a societal changer. Once your bank and credit cards get MCP servers, that's it. It's next level society.

Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook.

And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine.

I am absolutely excited for all of this. It really is as big as the iPhone.

Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

#26
post #10

Yikes! I can only imagine an LLM hallucinating my portfolio to zero.

It may not hallucinate yours to zero, or mine, or franks, or Mary's, but at some point it will do it to someone. That's the issue I have with these approaches *at scale*. I'm sure one day we'll get 100.00% reliable outputs such that autonomous agents can do this, however that's not today.

Yeah - feels like lunacy to me. I love the way that they get to the end of the article and then write that it doesn't really work!

Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

#27

algo trading already there for decades but addition with AI that can process corporate performance, trends etc can make it to another level but if we do this, does this good for market??? since if everyone have access to this tool. meaning that market would get optimized to the ground and what happen to daily trader etc ??? does that mean everyone just win/lose money equally???

means the market becomes more efficient (assuming that the models are better at pricing assets compared to humans) as it's been getting more and more efficient as more people trade, information becomes more democratized.

Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

#28
post #25

MCP everywhere is going to be such a societal changer. Once your bank and credit cards get MCP servers, that's it. It's next level society. Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook. And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine. I am absolutely excited for all of this.…

Buy and sell agent, no confirmation needed. Here's my bank account. What can go wrong?

I'm not categorically against the development, but I want to categorically confirm bank transactions.

Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

#29
post #6

Sometimes Go can get under my skin. The MCP SDK makes you jump through all these hoops to configure tools according to a JSON schema, but when it comes to handling the actual request you need to deal with parsing everything again out of a `map[string]any`. It's such a pain to need to reach for codegen all the time.

Go is pretty miserable for dealing with JSON compared to Python

I like Go, but Typescript/Javascript really seem like the ideal languages for dealing with JSON.

Re: Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

#30
post #25

MCP everywhere is going to be such a societal changer. Once your bank and credit cards get MCP servers, that's it. It's next level society. Like, immediately, I want it to order me some groceries based on what it sees in my fridge and what I cook. And to remind me to change my air filters. Or book my vacation for me, knowing I like a mediterranean vibe and Bistecco Florentine. I am absolutely excited for all of this.…

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