Flash Trade MCP

Give AI agents direct access to Flash Trade — market data, trade previews, position management, and transaction building through natural language.

Flash Trade MCP Server

Give AI agents direct access to Flash Trade — market data, trade previews, position management, and transaction building through natural language.

No cloning. No building. Follow the steps for your editor.

NPM: flash-trade-mcp | GitHub: flash-trade/flash-trade-MCP

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Claude Code

1. Open your terminal

2. cd into the project folder where you use Claude Code

3. Create the config file:

touch .mcp.json

1. Open .mcp.json in any editor and paste this entire block:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flash-trade": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "flash-trade-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FLASH_API_URL": "https://flashapi.trade"
      }
    }
  }
}

1. Save the file

2. Restart Claude Code — Flash Trade tools are now available

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Claude Desktop (macOS)

The Connectors UI in Settings (where you see "Add custom connector") is for remote servers only. Local MCP servers like this one go in a JSON config file.

1. Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer

2. Click "Edit Config"

3. Find claude_desktop_config.json and open it with a text editor (right-click → Open With → TextEdit, or VS Code)

4. You will see something like this:

{
  "preferences": {
    "coworkScheduledTasksEnabled": true,
    "sidebarMode": "task",
    ...other settings...
  }
}

1. Add a comma after the preferences closing brace, then paste the mcpServers block. The full file should look like:

{
  "preferences": {
    "coworkScheduledTasksEnabled": true,
    "sidebarMode": "task",
    ...your existing settings stay unchanged...
  },
  "mcpServers": {
    "flash-trade": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "flash-trade-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FLASH_API_URL": "https://flashapi.trade"
      }
    }
  }
}

1. Save the file

2. Go back to Claude Desktop. Click Claude in the menu bar → Quit Claude (or press Cmd+Q). Closing the window is not enough — you must fully quit the app

3. Reopen Claude Desktop

4. Start a new conversation. You should see a hammer icon in the chat input area — that means Flash Trade MCP is connected

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Claude Desktop (Windows)

1. Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer

2. Click "Edit Config"

3. Find claude_desktop_config.json and open it with Notepad or any text editor

4. You will see something like this:

{
  "preferences": {
    "coworkScheduledTasksEnabled": true,
    "sidebarMode": "task",
    ...other settings...
  }
}

1. Add a comma after the preferences closing brace, then paste the mcpServers block. The full file should look like:

{
  "preferences": {
    "coworkScheduledTasksEnabled": true,
    "sidebarMode": "task",
    ...your existing settings stay unchanged...
  },
  "mcpServers": {
    "flash-trade": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "flash-trade-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FLASH_API_URL": "https://flashapi.trade"
      }
    }
  }
}

1. Save the file

2. Right-click Claude Desktop in the taskbar → Close window, or press Alt+F4. Make sure the app is fully closed, not just minimized

3. Reopen Claude Desktop

4. Start a new conversation. You should see a hammer icon in the chat input area — that means Flash Trade MCP is connected

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VS Code (GitHub Copilot)

Requires GitHub Copilot extension installed and an active Copilot subscription.

1. Open VS Code

2. Press Cmd+Shift+P (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows) to open the Command Palette

3. Type MCP and select MCP: Add Server

4. Choose Workspace (adds to this project) or Global (available in all projects)

5. This creates or opens a mcp.json file. Add the Flash Trade server inside the servers object:

{
  "servers": {
    "flash-trade": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "flash-trade-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FLASH_API_URL": "https://flashapi.trade"
      }
    }
  }
}

Note: VS Code uses "servers" not "mcpServers" — this is different from Claude.

1. Save the file

2. A Start button appears at the top of the file. Click it to start the MCP server

3. Open Copilot Chat (Ctrl+Alt+I / Cmd+Ctrl+I), select Agent mode, and Flash Trade tools are available

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Cursor

1. Open Cursor

2. Press Cmd+Shift+P (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows) to open the Command Palette

3. Type MCP and select Cursor Settings: Open MCP Settings

4. This opens a JSON file. Add the Flash Trade server inside the mcpServers object:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flash-trade": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "flash-trade-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FLASH_API_URL": "https://flashapi.trade"
      }
    }
  }
}

1. Save the file

2. Open the Command Palette again (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P), type MCP and select Reload MCP Servers

3. Flash Trade tools are now available in Cursor's AI chat

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Windsurf

1. Open Windsurf

2. Click the Cascade icon (the AI assistant panel)

3. Click the hammer icon at the top of the Cascade panel

4. Click Configure to open the MCP config file

5. Add the Flash Trade server inside the mcpServers object:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flash-trade": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "flash-trade-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FLASH_API_URL": "https://flashapi.trade"
      }
    }
  }
}

1. Save the file

2. Click the Refresh button next to the MCP server list, or restart Windsurf

3. Flash Trade should appear in the server list as connected

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Cline (VS Code Extension)

1. Open VS Code with the Cline extension installed

2. Click the Cline icon in the sidebar

3. Click the MCP Servers button (gear icon) in the Cline panel

4. Click Configure MCP Servers — this opens the Cline MCP settings file

5. Add the Flash Trade server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flash-trade": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "flash-trade-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FLASH_API_URL": "https://flashapi.trade"
      }
    }
  }
}

1. Save the file

2. Back in the Cline MCP panel, Flash Trade should appear. Toggle it on if needed

3. Flash Trade tools are now available in Cline conversations

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OpenClaw

1. Open your OpenClaw config file at ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

2. Find the mcpServers object (or add one if it doesn't exist)

3. Add the Flash Trade server entry:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flash-trade": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "flash-trade-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FLASH_API_URL": "https://flashapi.trade"
      }
    }
  }
}

If you already have other servers in mcpServers, add "flash-trade": { ... } as a new entry inside the existing object.

1. Save the file

2. Restart the gateway:

openclaw gateway restart

1. Flash Trade tools are now available to your OpenClaw agents

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ChatGPT

ChatGPT only supports remote MCP servers over HTTPS — it cannot run local stdio servers like npx. Flash Trade MCP currently uses stdio transport only.

This means ChatGPT is not supported.

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Claude.ai (Web)

Same limitation as ChatGPT — Claude.ai requires remote MCP servers with a URL. Flash Trade MCP runs locally via stdio.

Not supported. Use Claude Desktop or Claude Code instead.

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Full tool reference and source code: GitHub