How to Fund Your Alpaca Live Trading Account?

In this tutorial series, we will learn about how to fund your live trading account. We will assume that your application for a live trading account has already been approved. If you have not, please check out the tutorial guides on  “How to open a live trading account as a US resident?” or “How to open a live trading account as a non-US resident?”

Alpaca - Commission-Free API First Stock Brokerage

Alpaca is a modern platform for trading. Alpaca’s API is the interface for your trading algorithms, bots, or applications to communicate with Alpaca’s brokerage and other services.

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Step1:

After logging in to your account at Alpaca, go to the live trading overview. The account overview should look somewhat like the following:

Step 2:

Once you click on Banking, you can link your bank account with Alpaca. After linking your bank account, select the amount you want to deposit and click on deposit to add funds to your account. Currently users cannot programmatically deposit or withdraw funds however we are aware of the interest.

Step 3:

Verify the amount of money you have deposited into your account, by going into account overview.

You’re now ready to start live trading!

Thank you for using Alpaca. Here are a couple more links that  you might be interested in.

Alpaca GitHub repository

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Alpaca builds an API for free stock trading. Alpaca has 39 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Alpaca Blog

Alpaca Blog | API for Stock Trading

Alpaca Blog for product updates, new integration, and more. Alpaca’s commission-free trading API is built for algorithmic trading and building apps

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Alpaca Forum

Alpaca Community Forum

Alpaca user forum for FAQ, feature requests, many discussions around Alpaca stock trading API

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Alpaca API documentation

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Commission-Free trading means that there are no commission charges for Alpaca self-directed individual cash brokerage accounts that trade U.S. listed securities through an API. Relevant SEC and FINRA fees may apply.

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