Access comprehensive Commitment of Traders (COT) reports with the FMP COT Report API. This API provides detailed information about long and short positions across various sectors, helping you assess market sentiment and track positions in commodities, indices, and financial instruments.
AI agents call getCOTReports to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep 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 queries existing Commitment of Traders reports—regulatory data published by the CFTC. It has no side effects; it only provides read-only access to market sentiment and position data. No data is created, modified, deleted, or financial obligations are incurred.
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Access comprehensive Commitment of Traders (COT) reports with the FMP COT Report API. This API provides detailed information about long and short positions across various sectors, helping you assess market sentiment and track positions in commodities, indices, and financial instruments. 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 getCOTReports: 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.
getCOTReports 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 getCOTReports 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 getCOTReports. 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.
getCOTReports is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP server (vijitdaroch/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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