Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

Trading with Claude (and writing your own MCP server) May 4, 2025 • 12 minute read Ever wanted to check on your portfolio and trade some stocks directly with Claude? Well you’re in luck. Claude and MCP In November 2024, Anthropic open-sourced MCP (Model-Context Protocol) to standardize the way AI assistants interact with other tools. This standardization allows AI assistants to seamlessly integrate with various tools and platforms, enhancing their capabilities and usability. Since then, it’s been growing in popularity and adoption, slowly becoming a key component in the development of AI-powered tools and applications. While the original version had some support for remote MCP servers, it was somewhat complicated to implement and did not see widespread adoption. So, as a natural evolution to the original MCP, they released the 2025-03-26 version with support for OAuth 2.1 authorization and replaced the HTTP+SSE transport with “Streamable HTTP” transport. Perhaps most importantly, ... Read full article.