Search insider trading activity by company or symbol using the Search Insider Trades API. Find specific trades made by corporate insiders, including executives and directors.
AI agents call searchInsiderTrades 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 historical insider trading data—a passive read operation that returns public SEC-filed information. It has no side effects, does not execute code or commands, does not create or modify data, and does not involve financial transactions. The low severity reflects that misuse would at worst enable information gathering but cannot cause direct harm through the tool itself.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'searchInsiderTrades' and description states it 'Search[es] insider trading activity' and 'Find[s] specific trades made by corporate insiders.' The verbs 'search' and 'find' indicate data retrieval with no modification or execution.
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Search insider trading activity by company or symbol using the Search Insider Trades API. Find specific trades made by corporate insiders, including executives and directors. 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 searchInsiderTrades: 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.
searchInsiderTrades 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 searchInsiderTrades 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 searchInsiderTrades. 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.
searchInsiderTrades 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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