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Visualizing Orderbook Data with Alpaca Crypto API
Level 2 data streaming is now available on Alpaca Crypto API for more than 20 coins.
Rahul Chowdhury
I'm a software engineer at Alpaca working to make our developers' lives easier. Previously I worked at QuantConnect where I built many algorithmic trading strategies.
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Introduction to CCXT with Alpaca
Alpaca’s crypto services are in the process of being integrated with CCXT, an open source library that lets you to connect to dozens of cryptocurrency brokerages. Learn more in this post.
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Make Your Own Crypto ETF Analog using Alpaca’s Crypto API
Learn how to take advantage of our new coin offerings by creating a diverse basket of crypto holdings, which will comprise our ETF. We then regularly rebalance our ETF to keep our allocation balanced across each coin.
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13 Order Types You Should Know About When Investing
Learn about the 13 order types that Alpaca offers, starting with the basics and working through to more advanced order types.
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Technical Analysis with TA-Lib and Market Data API
Many algorithmic trading strategies make use of technical analysis in order to determine its entries and exits. TA-LIB is a python library which makes it easy to compute, manage and use technical indicators.
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Sentiments Analysis of Financial News with News API and Transformers
Alpaca now provides news data via API, allowing you to access market moving content from timely and trusted sources. In the following sections, we’ll learn how to use the news data API to place trades based on sentiment analysis.
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Using Replit to Build a Bitcoin Trading Bot
We’ll see how we can use Replit to write a paper trading bot that trades Bitcoin using Alpaca’s API. You can fork the code we write below from this Replit template.
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Introduction to Backtesting with VectorBT
Vectorbt is a backtesting library for Python that excels at processing large amounts of data. It allows you to quickly and easily backtest strategies in only a few lines of code.
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How To Create Your Own Trading App Using OAuth with React
Alpaca’s OAuth service allows you to retrieve market data, account data and place trades on behalf of someone else. This opens up a world of possible services you can create such as market data visualization apps, automated investing apps, portfolio analytics apps, and so much more!
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Research, Backtest, and Trade from a Jupyter Notebook in Google Colab
We provide an interactive environment you can use to quickly get started with Alpaca and start exploring what you can build. You can use this environment to research new ideas, backtest them and even place paper trades.
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Coded & Analyzed Pairs Trading Strategy Using Bitcoin and Coinbase Stock
In the following sections, we’ll look at historical data to analyze a type of market neutral trade called a pairs trade. Then we will use our analysis of market data to formulate a trading strategy across crypto and equity markets.
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Backtesting Bitcoin with Pandas and Market Data API
Alpaca’s Market Data API can be a powerful tool for easily accessing market data. We can use the Market Data API to access all the equity and crypto data we will need for our backtest.