StockUp Quan Financial AI — Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server

Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other AI agents directly to StockUp Quan, the premier financial intelligence reasoning model grounded with real-time, zero-hallucination stock quote data.

Features

• Real-Time Stock Grounding: Automatically extracts stock prices, session margins, and trading volumes from Yahoo Finance and prepends them as context to your queries.

• Deep Reasoning Models: Exposes the specialized quan-3.0, quan-3.3 (Standard), and quan-3.3-deep-research models for portfolio setups, competitor comparisons, and SEC filing audits.

• AI-Ready Tools: Exposes a native financial_reasoning_query tool that handles all complex financial reasoning prompts.

Related MCP server: Yahoo Finance MCP Server

Installation & Setup

Prerequisite

Make sure you have Node.js installed on your computer.

Step 1: Obtain a StockUp API Key

1. Sign up or log in to the StockUp Developer Console at https://stockup.cc/api.

2. Refill your prepaid wallet and click New Key under API Credentials to generate a secret key (starting with sk_quan_).

Step 2: Configure Claude Desktop

Add this server configuration to your Claude Desktop configuration file:

• MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stockup": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/stockup-mcp.js"],
      "env": {
        "STOCKUP_API_KEY": "YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

(Make sure to replace /path/to/stockup-mcp.js with the absolute local path to your script, and YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY with your actual StockUp API key).

Step 3: Restart Claude Desktop

Fully close and restart Claude Desktop. You will see a small Hammer icon 🛠️ in the chat box, indicating that the StockUp tools are active!

Exponent Tools

1. financial_reasoning_query

Queries the StockUp Quan model with live quote grounding.

• Parameters:

  • prompt (string, required): The financial analysis or stock query.

  • model (string, optional): One of quan-3.0 (speed), quan-3.3 (flagship reasoning), or quan-3.3-deep-research (portfolio scour).

  • googleSearch (boolean, optional): Enables live Google Search grounding. Default: true.

  • temperature (number, optional): Query sampling variance.

Example Queries to Try:

• "Analyze Apple's current valuation compared to Microsoft and Google P/E multiples."

• "Audit Tesla's current setups and recommend a DCA strategy based on their technical averages."

• "Perform a competitive qualitative tradeoff between NVDA and AMD."