Return current price and its percentage distance to 20-, 50-, and 200-day SMAs.
AI agents call get_moving_average_position to retrieve information from Finviz MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and calculates technical indicator data (moving average positions) for analysis purposes. It reads market data and performs read-only computations, returning informational output. No side effects, state changes, code execution, or financial transactions occur. Misuse by an AI agent would be limited to potentially requesting data excessively or for research purposes only, with minimal blast radius.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_moving_average_position' and description 'Return current price and its percentage distance to 20-, 50-, and 200-day SMAs' indicate data retrieval only. No parameters suggest modification, deletion, or execution of external operations.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access get_moving_average_position gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Finviz MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for get_moving_average_position:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"get_moving_average_position": {}
}
}get_moving_average_position is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Return current price and its percentage distance to 20-, 50-, and 200-day SMAs. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Finviz MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Finviz MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_moving_average_position: 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 Finviz MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_moving_average_position 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 get_moving_average_position 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 get_moving_average_position. 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.
get_moving_average_position is provided by the Finviz MCP Server MCP server (tradermonty/finviz-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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