ClawTerminal Blog

Markets data for AI agents — and how to use it.

Two threads. First, how to wire your agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to a live markets database over MCP. Then, the research playbooks that data unlocks — insider buying, congressional trades, fund flows, biotech catalysts, value screens — with the academic edge and the anti-noise filters that separate signal from artifact.

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Wire Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or a custom agent to real markets data.

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How to give Claude access to SEC filings (free MCP server)

EDGAR is a maze of HTML and XBRL. Point Claude at one MCP endpoint and ask for 8-Ks, insider trades and fundamentals in plain English instead.

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The best MCP server for stock-market data

What to look for in a markets MCP server — coverage, freshness, auth, tool design — and how ClawTerminal’s 160+ tools compare.

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How to connect ChatGPT to live markets data

ChatGPT Developer Mode and custom connectors can call MCP tools. Here is how to give ChatGPT SEC filings, prices and macro — no plugins.

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How to build an AI investing analyst

An agent is a model plus tools plus a loop. Keep the model, add a markets database over MCP, and let it run a full research workflow on its own.

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Research playbooks

What the data is actually for — with the documented edge and the filters.

Playbook

How to find insider buying that actually predicts returns

Not all Form 4 buys are signal. The edge lives in opportunistic, operating-insider cluster buys in small-caps — and the filters that drop the noise.

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Playbook

How to track congressional stock trades (STOCK Act)

The average member does not beat the index. Leadership and committee-power members are a different story. How to read STOCK Act disclosures honestly.

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Playbook

13F whale-watching: how to read institutional holdings

13F is 45 days stale and longs-only. The alpha is not the whole book — it is the manager’s concentrated best ideas. How to find them.

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FDA catalysts: how drug approvals move biotech stocks

The run-up often matters more than the print. How to track approvals and recalls, run an event study, and avoid the “sell the news” trap.

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The Magic Formula screen, automated

Greenblatt ranked cheap (high earnings yield) and good (high ROIC). Build the screen in one query — and understand the multi-year discipline tax.

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Reading the macro regime: growth × inflation quadrants

Most asset moves are regime-driven. Classify the growth-and-inflation quadrant, watch liquidity, and apply the 200-day filter before stock-picking.

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How to evaluate your portfolio (beyond the return)

Your return tells you almost nothing alone. We ran two real portfolios through the analytics — Sharpe, drawdown, beta, concentration, risk contribution — and the high-return one was no better than the index.

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In the data

We run the viral charts and the day’s headlines through the terminal and check them against the filings.

Teardown

Michael Burry’s Apollo chart, fact-checked

His viral chart says your retirement quietly funds Elon’s AI. We traced the annuity-to-GPU chain through the filings — mostly true, with the scary numbers turned up to eleven.

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Autonomous run

An autonomous agent’s overnight research run

We pointed OpenClaw at the terminal and let it run: sweep the day, grade a viral chart against the filings, value the megacaps. What hands-off markets research actually looks like.

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Field guide

Exotic ETFs: the weird and wonderful

An ETF for space (ticker UFO), for K-pop’s labels, one literally called Animal Spirits with 2x leverage. The strangest real funds — and how to spot a fee trap.

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Company spotlights

A big name, the real filings, and whether it’s cheap or expensive — with charts.

Spotlight

Is Nvidia stock cheap or expensive?

45x earnings but a 0.7 PEG. We pulled the filings and the price — revenue up 20x in six years, a 1.8% FCF yield — and charted what you’re paying at every multiple.

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Is Alphabet (Google) cheap or expensive?

The “cheap Mag7” already re-rated. At 33x with 15% growth and a $91B AI capex bill eating the cash flow, is the bargain gone? The filings, charted.

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Is Apple stock cheap or expensive?

42x earnings near an all-time high — on ~6% revenue growth. The cleanest case of paying a growth multiple for a low-growth, buyback-powered cash machine.

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Is Tesla stock cheap or expensive?

~390x earnings on a shrinking profit base. Tesla breaks the multiple entirely — so we reverse it: what would earnings have to become to justify the price?

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Point your agent at the data

One MCP endpoint, 160+ markets-research tools, a free closed-beta key. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-capable agent in under a minute.