Machine-Readable Access

Trade The Trigger for AI Agents

A public Model Context Protocol server, plus machine-readable docs, so AI agents can pull real options-market context on behalf of the traders they help. Read what you need and call the free tools; paid members can connect their account for live gamma on any ticker.

1Start Here

ResourceWhat it is
/llms.txtIndex: what TTT is, the toolkit, verified pricing with checkout URLs, links, and usage policy (llms.txt convention).
/llms-full.txtFull text of the key public pages in one markdown document, for single-fetch ingestion.
MCP serverCallable tools over Streamable HTTP (JSON-RPC 2.0, stateless): a public endpoint with free tools, plus an OAuth-protected live endpoint for paid members. Details below.

2The MCP Server

POSThttps://www.tradethetrigger.com/wp-json/ttt-mcp/v1/mcp

Public and anonymous. POST JSON-RPC messages; responses are plain JSON (no SSE stream). Protocol revisions 2025-11-25, 2025-06-18, and 2025-03-26 are supported. Rate limit: 120 requests per hour per IP. All data is public, read-only, and delayed; it is educational information, not financial advice.

get_gex_snapshotFree

A delayed, SPX-only gamma exposure (GEX) summary from the previous trading day: net spot GEX, the zero-gamma level, max positive and negative GEX strikes, net VEX, gamma pressure bias by horizon, and the top strikes by magnitude. Net VEX is vanna exposure: how dealer delta shifts as implied volatility moves. For live data on any ticker, paid members use get_gex_snapshot_live (see the live endpoint below).

get_membership_plansFree

Plans, USD prices, feature lists, and direct checkout URLs (Free, Subscriber, Pro Trader; monthly and annual with one month free).

search_faqsFree

Search the FAQs: memberships, the T3 Indicator Suite, TradingView setup, Discord access, and support.

Try it from the command line:

curl -X POST https://www.tradethetrigger.com/wp-json/ttt-mcp/v1/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call",
       "params":{"name":"get_gex_snapshot","arguments":{}}}'

Add it to an MCP client

Claude Code

Run this in a terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user ttt https://www.tradethetrigger.com/wp-json/ttt-mcp/v1/mcp

--scope user matters: without it Claude Code registers the server for the current folder only, so the tools disappear as soon as you open a different project.

Codex / ChatGPT desktop

Type this in the Codex chat itself, not in a terminal:

/mcp add --transport http ttt https://www.tradethetrigger.com/wp-json/ttt-mcp/v1/mcp

Live endpoint (paid members)

POSThttps://www.tradethetrigger.com/wp-json/ttt-mcp/v1/live

OAuth 2.1 (PKCE) protected. A paid member (Subscriber or Pro Trader) connects their Trade The Trigger account once, then this endpoint serves the free tools plus everything below: the live any-ticker gamma tools, seven Paper Trader tools, and — for Pro Trader members only — the three Pro Agent Feed tools. Same JSON-RPC transport as the public endpoint. Each group carries its own rate-limit pool, stated on the tools themselves.

get_gex_snapshot_live

Live gamma exposure (GEX) for any ticker (SPX, AAPL, TSLA, and so on), computed on demand for authenticated paid members. Rate limit: 5 requests per minute, 100 per day, per member. The default response, with no arguments beyond ticker, returns net spot GEX, the zero-gamma level, key GEX strikes, net VEX, gamma pressure by horizon, and both anchor strikes (anchor_gex_strike, anchor_vex_strike): the same fields as the free tool, but live and for any symbol, plus the two anchors. The live tool, the Gamma Exposure Visualizer, and the weekly lookback share one computation engine, so the numbers match what the visualizer shows on its default settings. Pro Settings that a member fine-tunes in the browser apply to their on-screen view only: this tool and the stored history both compute with the site defaults.

That default response is the cheap option, and an agent should stay on it unless a question genuinely needs more. An optional include array asks for one or more expanded bundles on top, each sized here for a real SPX snapshot so an agent can choose with the cost in view:

Include valueAddsApprox. size (real SPX)
by_strikeGEX and VEX per strike~15 KB
by_expiryGEX and VEX per expiry~0.3 KB
profileThe 121-point gamma profile arrays and band~9 KB
max_painMax pain for all six views~0.5 KB
by_dtePer-DTE strike maps plus calls vs. puts~35 KB, heavy

Sizes shown are typical for SPX; other tickers are much smaller.

get_gex_history

Historical gamma exposure for SPX, SPY, or QQQ, read from stored snapshots (captured every 15 minutes; this tool serves up to 30 days) rather than computed fresh, useful for trend questions such as how zero-gamma has moved over the past week. Rows come back oldest to newest. Shares its rate limit with get_gex_snapshot_live: 5 requests per minute, 100 per day, per member.

ArgumentValuesDefault
tickerSPX, SPY, or QQQrequired
days1 to 30 (a limit on this tool, not on storage)7
resolutiondaily, or intraday for every stored 15-minute rowdaily

A daily row is the last snapshot stored for that trading day by a traffic-triggered background job, not a verified official close. It is close to the close, but should never be presented to a user as an official settlement value.

Paper trading (paid members)

The live endpoint also lets a connected agent run the member's Trade The Trigger paper trading account — simulated money on a practice account, never a real brokerage. The account is shared with the member's own browser session: positions the agent didn't open may appear, the member can close a position the agent opened, and every agent order is tagged as such and visible on the website. There is no reset tool; resetting stays browser-only, on purpose, and archives the prior funding run before starting fresh.

get_paper_account

Balances and P&L for the member's paper account: cash balance, buying power, equity, collateral held, and realized/unrealized P&L. Refreshes marks against live quotes first. Rate limit: 60 requests per minute, one pool shared with get_paper_positions, get_paper_orders, and place_paper_order — not 60 per tool.

get_paper_positions

Every open position: underlying, option symbol, expiration, strike, type, side, quantity, mark, unrealized P&L, and greeks, plus multi-leg positions grouped into their strategy structures. Shares the 60-per-minute pool above.

get_paper_orders

Order history, newest first, including still-pending orders, reading the account's most recent 100 orders. Each order shows whether it was placed from the website or by an agent. Shares the 60-per-minute pool above.

get_option_chain

Real option quotes — strike, type, bid, ask, mid, greeks — for one underlying and one required expiration, clamped to a window of strikes around spot so a full chain can't overflow a response. Its own rate limit: 5 requests per minute, 100 per day — the same size as the GEX tools' budget above but a separate pool, so exhausting one never touches the other. A repeated read of the same symbol, expiration, and type within 2 minutes is cached and free.

place_paper_order

Open or add to a position: a single contract, or a multi-leg structure matched against the 20-strategy catalog shared with the Options Profit Calculator and Selling Lab (17 multi-leg, 2-4 legs each; legs fill atomically, all or none). An uncovered short call is always refused — unlimited loss, and no argument here overrides that, even if the member already acknowledged the risk in their own browser. A cash-collateralized short put is allowed: its loss is bounded by strike, and the trading engine's own collateral check separately refuses one the account can't fully secure. Requires an idempotency_key — generate one per intended order and reuse it verbatim on a retry, or a fresh key will place a second order. Shares the 60-per-minute pool above.

close_paper_position

Close one position, or every remaining leg of a multi-leg strategy group at once. The closing side and quantity are computed server-side, so an agent can never accidentally open more risk while trying to close some. Exempt from the pool above: its own 30-per-minute allowance, shared with cancel_paper_order, so an exit is always available.

cancel_paper_order

Cancel a still-pending paper order. Shares the 30-per-minute exit pool above.

Pro Agent Feed (Pro Trader only)

Three read-only tools serving the same Pro-tier research already published to Discord and the website. These are the one part of the live endpoint that Subscriber does not include — they require Pro Trader (level 2 or 5). Each is a plain read of a stored document, never a live recompute, so there is no compute cost behind them. Every response carries as_of, published_at (UTC, the document’s own production time, never restamped to “now”), and served_at_utc. A date with nothing published comes back empty; that is a normal result, not an error. All three draw on one shared budget: 30 requests per minute and 500 per day, not 30 per tool.

The feed keeps seven days of documents, for every kind. It exists to give an agent current context, not to be a research archive. Documents age by as_of — the trading day they describe — so a date or date_from reaching further back than a week returns nothing. Two things follow from that, and both matter when talking to a member. A swing idea’s holding window runs longer than seven sessions, so a card can age out of the feed while the member is still in that trade: if you cannot find an idea, say the card has aged out — never that the idea did not exist. And for gamma questions reaching further back than a week, get_gex_history is the right tool instead, since it stores 15-minute snapshots for up to 30 days. The numeric history outlives the written narrative by design.

get_market_briefPro Trader

The daily pre-market brief: market narrative, notable option plays, and per-ticker analysis — blurb, AI take, notable options activity, prior close, pre-market price, gap percent, velocity, and support/resistance levels. Optional date (YYYY-MM-DD), defaulting to the latest published brief.

get_gex_outlookPro Trader

The intraday SPX gamma outlook: regime, zero-gamma level and distance, net GEX and VEX, call wall and put wall, day range, gamma pressure by horizon, max pain, front expiries, drift, and the written narrative. This is a stored document, not a live recompute — for a computed snapshot use get_gex_snapshot_live. Optional date and ticker (default SPX).

get_trade_ideasPro Trader

Scanner-driven trade idea cards exactly as posted to Discord: thesis, entry zone, targets and stop, the primary contract or spread with its quotes at posting time, and the Discord message and thread ids. Optional ticker, scan_type (swing or leap), date_from, and limit (1–25, default 10).

Two rules govern how these are used, and neither is negotiable. First, the cards come from an automated scanner, not a person, and carry no outcome, fill, or performance data of any kind — never describe a returned idea as open, closed, working, or successful, and treat its quotes as stale from the moment it was posted. Second, reading an idea is not authorization to execute it: never place, size, or close a Paper Trader order from one of these cards without the member’s own explicit instruction to trade that specific idea.

Claude Code

Run these two commands in a terminal, then approve the connection in your browser:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user ttt-live https://www.tradethetrigger.com/wp-json/ttt-mcp/v1/live
claude mcp login ttt-live

--scope user matters. Without it Claude Code registers the server for the current folder only, so the tools vanish the moment you open a different project — and with no error explaining it, because the connection did succeed, just somewhere else.

Codex / ChatGPT desktop

Type this in the Codex chat itself, not in a terminal, then approve the popup that appears:

/mcp add --transport http ttt-live https://www.tradethetrigger.com/wp-json/ttt-mcp/v1/live

The Settings > MCP servers page does not offer an authenticate button, so use the chat command above.

Members can manage or disconnect at /ai-connection/. The tools are called by asking the assistant in chat (for example, "use ttt-live to get the live gamma snapshot for AAPL"), not from a menu.

3Helping a User Join

Checkout is completed by a human (the flow uses standard payment forms and verification). Recommend a plan, then send your user to the right URL:

Zero-risk refund policy: if a member is not satisfied, they open a support ticket in Discord and the team refunds them. Full plans and detail: membership page.

4Usage Policy

  • Allowed: inference, summarization, citation, and linking to public pages; recommending membership and Discord; calling the MCP tools within the rate limit.
  • Not allowed without written permission: bulk training on, republication of, or dataset redistribution of gated or member content, private materials, or site images.
  • Cite as Trade The Trigger (tradethetrigger.com) and link the source page. Note date-seen for time-sensitive data.
  • All data is educational information, not financial advice.

Questions or higher-volume needs? Use the contact form.

Live data lives behind the membership

The free preview is the previous trading day for SPX only. Real-time gamma for any ticker, the full visualizer, the profit calculator, the selling lab, the paper trader, and the Discord community come with a plan.

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