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Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop is Anthropic's desktop application for conversational AI. It supports MCP natively, making it a great choice for market research and analysis through natural language.

Setup

  1. Open your Claude Desktop configuration file:

    • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
    • Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

  2. Add the E8 Markets MCP server:

    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "e8markets": {
      "url": "https://trade.e8markets.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

  3. Replace YOUR_API_KEY with the key from the Prerequisites step.

  4. Restart Claude Desktop.

Verify

Ask Claude:

"What trading assets are available?"

If the connection is working, Claude will call the e8_trade_asset_list tool and return a list of tradeable instruments.

Example prompts

Market data:

  • "Give me a full briefing on EURUSD — current price, a 24-hour chart, and any recent news"
  • "Show me a 7-day chart for BTCUSD with daily candles"
  • "Compare the order books of BTCUSD and ETHUSD"

Trading:

  • "What's my account balance and equity?"
  • "Buy 0.1 lots of EURUSD at market"
  • "Show me my open positions and their P&L"
  • "Close my BTCUSD position"
  • "Close all my open positions"

How to trade

Once connected, you can trade entirely through natural language:

  1. Check your account — "Show me my account info"
  2. Research — "What's the current price of EURUSD?"
  3. Place an order — "Buy 0.1 lots of EURUSD at market"
  4. Monitor — "Show me my open positions"
  5. Close — "Close my EURUSD position"

All orders go through the same execution engine as the web terminal — same prices, same slippage checks, same risk controls.

Note

All accounts are demo/evaluation accounts. No real money is at risk.