getSenateTrades
Monitor the trading activity of US Senators with the FMP Senate Trading Activity API. Access detailed information on trades made by Senators, including trade dates, assets, amounts, and potential conflicts of interest.
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What getSenateTrades does on Financial Modeling Prep
AI agents call getSenateTrades 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 getSenateTrades is rated Low
This tool only reads and retrieves historical Senate trading data from public disclosure records. It does not execute trades, modify data, delete records, or commit financial transactions. While the data relates to financial markets, the tool itself performs no financial action—it merely provides Read access to existing public records.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getSenateTrades' and description 'Monitor the trading activity of US Senators...Access detailed information on trades' indicates data retrieval with no modification or execution capability.
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The rule that runs getSenateTrades 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 getSenateTrades, this is the rule to start with:
getSenateTrades 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 getSenateTrades call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getSenateTrades
Monitor the trading activity of US Senators with the FMP Senate Trading Activity API. Access detailed information on trades made by Senators, including trade dates, assets, amounts, and potential conflicts of interest. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
getSenateTrades 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 getSenateTrades: 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.
getSenateTrades 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 getSenateTrades 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 getSenateTrades. 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.
getSenateTrades 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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