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 MCP Server
AI agents call getHouseTrades to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
Why getHouseTrades is rated Low
This tool queries publicly available financial disclosure data about U.S. House members' trades. It is purely informational retrieval (a 'get' operation) that returns existing data without side effects, modifications, or execution capabilities. The low severity reflects that misuse would only expose information already subject to public disclosure requirements, with no financial, destructive, or operational impact.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getHouseTrades' and description states 'Track... Access real-time information on stock sales, purchases, and other investment activities' — retrieves historical/real-time data with no capability to modify, delete, or execute transactions.
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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 MCP Server, 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 MCP Server, 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 MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server 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 MCP Server. 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 MCP server (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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