Access the latest insider trading activity using the Latest Insider Trading API. Track which company insiders are buying or selling stocks and analyze their transactions.
AI agents call getLatestInsiderTrading 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 provides access to publicly-available insider trading data (SEC Form 4 filings and similar public records). While insider trading information can be sensitive for competitive analysis or investment decisions, the tool itself performs no write, destructive, execute, or financial transaction operations - it only queries and returns historical trading data.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves and tracks 'latest insider trading activity' and allows users to 'analyze their transactions' - purely informational data retrieval with no modification, deletion, or execution capability.
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Access the latest insider trading activity using the Latest Insider Trading API. Track which company insiders are buying or selling stocks and analyze their transactions. 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 getLatestInsiderTrading: 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.
getLatestInsiderTrading 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 getLatestInsiderTrading 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 getLatestInsiderTrading. 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.
getLatestInsiderTrading 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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