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Rot – Financial Intelligence MCP Server

Rot – Financial Intelligence MCP Server

by Shmungus·Feb 18, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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The Take

Exposes Reddit-derived sentiment and unusual options activity as JSON-first MCP tools you can paste into Claude or any MCP client — ask your AI 'what's unusual in options' and get structured signals instantly. The 9-stage pipeline, SSE support, and no-API-key install path are clever UX/architecture choices; still, small-sample trade stats and the inherent noise of social data mean take the win-rate claims with skepticism and watch for abuse/regulatory edge cases.

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Target Audience

Retail/quants traders, LLM developers, AI power users using Claude/Cursor/Windsurf, and builders who want plug-and-play market signals

Post Description

Built an MCP server that turns Reddit sentiment into options signals. 185k LOC, 9-stage AI pipeline, now live with 90 users on just day 1.

Wall Street pays millions for retail sentiment data. It's free on Reddit. I realized: instead of another dashboard, just expose it as an MCP tool. Users ask Claude "what's unusual in options right now" and get structured signals instantly.

Results: 9,000 GitHub clones in 5 days, 52% win rate on 50 live trades (backtest was 58.8% on 129 trades—classic overfitting), 18.4% visitor→signup conversion.

https://web-production-71423.up.railway.app/mcp-server

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Shmungus
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