getHouseTrades
Track the financial trades made by U.S. House members and their families with the FMP U.S. House Trades API. Access real-time information on stock sales, purchases, and other investment activities to gain insight into their financial decisions.
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What getHouseTrades does on Financial Modeling Prep
AI agents call getHouseTrades to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol | string | — | Stock symbol |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why getHouseTrades is rated Low
This tool fetches and queries publicly available information about congressional trading activities. It is a read-only data retrieval function that has no side effects, cannot modify data, and poses minimal risk even if misused by an AI agent, as it only returns historical trade information.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves 'real-time information on stock sales, purchases, and other investment activities' with verbs like 'Track' and 'Access' indicating data retrieval with no modification or execution.
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The rule that runs getHouseTrades safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Financial Modeling Prep, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For getHouseTrades, this is the rule to start with:
getHouseTrades is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Financial Modeling Prep, apply this rule, and every getHouseTrades call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getHouseTrades
Track the financial trades made by U.S. House members and their families with the FMP U.S. House Trades API. Access real-time information on stock sales, purchases, and other investment activities to gain insight into their financial decisions. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
getHouseTrades accepts 1 parameter: symbol. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getHouseTrades: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Financial Modeling Prep. Nothing to install.
getHouseTrades is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the getHouseTrades rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for getHouseTrades. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
getHouseTrades is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server (cfocoder/financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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