AGENT TUTORIAL

Use CoinLobster to confirm your trading bot

Your bot already decides when to trade. Connect the CoinLobster MCP and, before it commits, it can check that call against what the big money is actually doing right now across 15 exchanges, on-chain, and Hyperliquid. Context, not a prediction.

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Connect the MCP

Add the keyless endpoint to your agent or client. Exact per-client steps are on the connect page.

claude mcp add --transport http coinlobster https://coinlobster.com/mcp
2

Ask the confirming question before an entry

Have your bot check three things before it acts: is the flow unusual for this coin (whale_context), which way is the big money leaning market-wide (market_overview), and where does this pair sit right now (trade_context: price against its own recent average, the cost to hold, how crowded one side is).

Before I long SOL, are the big buyers or sellers in front right now, and is that unusual for it?
Market-wide, which coins is the big money net buying, and which net selling?
Give me the pre-trade picture for SOL/USD in one line.
3

Pull the raw price bars and run your own indicators

CoinLobster does not ship a moving-average or oscillator (every bot library already has those). Instead it hands your bot the near-live price bars with price_candles, so your bot computes exactly the indicators it already trusts. The bars carry how old the newest one is, so a live feed is never confused with a stopped one.

Give me the last 300 hourly bars for ETH/USD so my bot can run its own indicators.
# price_candles returns { t, o, h, l, c, v }, oldest first, near-live.
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Gate the entry on a plain rule

Wrap it in one rule: take the trade only when the big money is on the same side and the coin is not already crowded the way you want to enter. Every field is descriptive market data, so your bot keeps the decision. Nothing here is a forecast.

What you can ask

  • Before I long this coin, are the big buyers or sellers in front right now?
  • Is this move unusual for this coin, or normal for it?
  • Give me the last 300 hourly price bars so my bot can run its own indicators.
Connect CoinLobster to your AI

Common questions

Does this tell my bot what to trade?
No. It gives your bot context: what the big money is doing, how crowded a side is, and where price sits against its own recent average. Your bot still makes the call. Descriptive data, never a forecast.
Can it compute indicators for me?
It hands your bot the near-live price bars with price_candles so your bot computes exactly the indicators it wants. The pre-trade tool (trade_context) also returns plain reads, above or below its recent average and how stretched the move is, if you just want the summary.
Is the server free?
The endpoint at https://coinlobster.com/mcp is keyless with a rate limit. A free key raises it; a paid plan opens every streamed pair and the full depth.
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