kerryjiang/OpenEtradeMcp

OpenEtradeMcp is a utility wrapper that leverages Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) to expose ETRADE's existing REST API as tools for LLMs. While functionally useful for retail traders using Claude Desktop or IDE extensions, it lacks any structural moat. With only 1 star and 1 fork after 70+ days, it has zero market traction. From a competitive standpoint, the project faces three terminal risks: first, ETRADE (owned by Morgan Stanley) could release an official MCP server or standardized API integration, rendering third-party wrappers obsolete; second, larger 'aggregator' toolkits like LangChain or Composio already maintain libraries of hundreds of financial connectors; third, frontier labs (Anthropic/OpenAI) are moving toward native 'computer use' or browser-based automation that bypasses the need for specialized API wrappers. The code is essentially a mapping of API endpoints to JSON-RPC schemas, making it trivially reproducible by any developer or even an LLM itself. The displacement horizon is short because the value is purely in the connectivity, which is rapidly becoming a commodity.