Building AI Trading Agents with MCP and altFINS
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A practical way to turn an LLM into a crypto research assistant is to connect it to a tool layer that can return real market data instead of guesses. The altFINS MCP server does exactly that by exposing crypto screeners, technical analysis, signals, news, calendar data, and portfolio data through the Model Context Protocol, which works with clients like Claude Desktop, VS Code, and Copilot Studio. The stack becomes even useful when MCP is paired with the altFINS CLI and