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Martingale Day-Trading with the Alpaca Trading API

Testing out an old betting system Martingale with algorithmic trading in Python. This article talks about applying a theoretical betting strategy to a day-trading algorithm’s position sizing.

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Manually Trading Stocks Using Postman and the Alpaca API

You can manually trade stocks using Postman with Alpaca Trading API. This is one of how-to getting started and testing the API.

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Long-Short Algorithmic Trading in JavaScript (Node.js) Using Stock API

In this post, I will be sharing how I created a simple Long-Short Equity trading script in JavaScript (a Node.js app) using Alpaca’s free paper trading API.

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How to Build a DIY Socially Responsible Investing Robo - A Farewell to Swell

Founded in 2017, Swell was an investment advisor and platform that focused exclusively on socially responsible investing. Here is how you can build one DIY.

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Algorithmic Trading through a Business Account at Alpaca

Alpaca now supports business accounts who want to do algorithmic trading. This post should help you to find why useful to trade through a business entity such as a startup hedge fund, prop trading firm etc.

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Building a Twitter Bot to Tweet My Trades

I thought it would be great to share my trading activity through Twitter for a realtime view of all executions. So here is how to build a twitter bot to tweet my trades.

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A Simple Mean Reversion Stock Trading Script in C#

A code snippet for a simple mean reversion stock trading in C#. We use fundamental analysis in this algorithmic trading.

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Python & AWS to Run a Simple Trading Algorithm

This is a step-by-step guide to run a simple trading algorithm using Python, AWS, and Alpaca Trading API.

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Introducing an Open Source Mobile App — Alpaca Dashboard

Introducing an example mobile app “Alpaca Dashboard” on the App Store and its code in full open-sourced on the GitHub repo. The app is built on React Native.

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PythonAnywhere to Run a Simple Trading Algorithm

Using PythonAnywhere to run a trading algorithm in the cloud - The biggest area of resistance for newbie quant traders is running an algorithm live in the cloud.

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Day-Trading Algorithm to Run in the Cloud Using Only Free Services

I will show you how to do commission-free stock trading (algorithmic trading) on a free Google Cloud Platform instance, step-by-step. Free & Free.

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HFT-like Trading Algorithm in 300 Lines of Code You Can Run Now

As a developer, I decided to do research to figure out myself on how I could build similar things to what HFTs do after wondering what's so special about hedge funds and HFTs.