Business trading accounts available at Alpaca

US Corps & LLCs established by both U.S. and non-U.S. residents are now supported at Alpaca business trading accounts Beta.
This Beta program comes with a $50,000 account minimum.

Business signup

Powerful tools that you control

Up to 4X intraday & 2X overnight
buying power

8.5% margin interest rate - check Alpaca Securities Brokerage Fee Schedule here.

Short selling

Trade without directional bias. Alpaca's trading API allows you to run long/short or market neutral strategies.

Pre market & after hours trading

Expand your opportunity set. You can trade outside of Regular Market Hours. We offer 4:00am to 8:00pm Eastern Time Monday to Friday.

Advanced order types

Build sophisticated strategies using a suite of order types including OCO, IOC, MOO, and MOC.

Alpaca with TradingView chart

Trade with Alpaca directly from your TradingView chart—no switching tabs, no extra clicks. Efficient, just like great trading should be. Learn more.

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Charts are offered by TradingView

Serving algo traders & quant funds

Commission-free API
Building with the Alpaca API can make stock trading commission-free
Testing enviroment
We’ve got your back—test your work before deploying to production
Two-factor authentication
We care about your security and continue to add variety of 2FA options
Margin and short selling
A wide array of advanced investing and trading strategies are supported
!  Commissions Disclosure

Registered securities broker

Alpaca Securities LLC is a member of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA).
You can check the background of Alpaca Securities on FINRA’s BrokerCheck.
Alpaca Securities is also a member of SIPC - securities in your account are protected up to $500,000.
For details, please visit www.sipc.org.