MCP · CHINA FUTURES

Connect China futures data to your AI agent

Give your agent sourced answers on trading days, session hours, contract expiries and exchange rule changes.

Free, no key, read-only

Streamable HTTP endpoint

01 · CONNECT

Choose your client

Merge the entry into your existing configuration, keeping other servers. Client and organization access rules depend on the client.

Claude

Add a custom connector named China Futures and enter this endpoint as the remote MCP server URL. Team users may need an organization owner to add it first.

https://mcp.futuresclock.com/mcp

Official Claude setup guide ↗

Claude Code

Add the HTTP server in your terminal; use /mcp inside Claude Code to check its status.

claude mcp add --transport http china-futures https://mcp.futuresclock.com/mcp

Official Claude Code MCP docs ↗

Cursor

Use .cursor/mcp.json in your project. The remote server uses a url field; no headers or key are needed.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "china-futures": {
      "url": "https://mcp.futuresclock.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Official Cursor MCP docs ↗

VS Code

Use .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace with a servers object and HTTP type. Review the server trust prompt in the client.

{
  "servers": {
    "china-futures": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.futuresclock.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Official VS Code MCP docs ↗

02 · ASK

Six read-only tools

Once connected, ask your agent a question. Unpublished data and dates outside coverage return an explicit unknown.

trading_day: Is SHFE open on a given trading date, and which date owns the night session?
next_closure: When is the next published DCE holiday closure?
trading_hours: What are the day and night session hours for SHFE copper?
contract_expiry: When does a published SHFE copper contract expire?
recent_rule_changes: Which margin or price-limit changes were published in the past week?
recent_notices: Which exchange notices were published in the past week?

03 · SOURCES & USE

Limits, sources and privacy

Free allowance: 200 tool calls per IP per day, resetting at midnight UTC. Limits return HTTP 429 with Retry-After; global service limits also apply. No key application is needed.

Hours and expiries use published Futures Clock structured data. Trading days and closures use Markets Open calendars. Changes and notices use published China Exchange Circulars (CEC) records. A notice record is not a verified current rule: official exchange texts take precedence.

Futures Clock data uses its Open Data Compilation License; Markets Open calendars use CC BY 4.0. CEC records grant no new license to official notice text. Preserve source links, status and attribution; each source retains its own terms.

Futures Clock data license · CC BY 4.0 · Open data and sources

No IP or full User-Agent is logged. Usage records contain only tool names, normalized parameters, result status and client product/version; connection initialization also records client name/version. Conversation content is not stored.

Reference data only. Not investment advice.