Industry
10 Common Compliance Challenges
We've put together the list of top ten compliance challenges being faced and to be affronted in the near future by businesses.
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Broker API
How Does Crypto Fee Pricing Compare to Stock Trading Fees?
This article explains the differences between cryptocurrency and stocks and differences in fees.
Trading API
Backtesting Tutorial Using Alpaca and JavaScript
Backtest your trading algorithm using JavaScript and Node.js with Alpaca.
Market News
Senator Toomey Proposes the Investor Freedom Act of 2021 and Zillow Closes its Home Flipping Business
On October 28, Senator Pat Toomey introduced a bill that would protect the practice known as payment for order flow.
Broker API
Broker-Dealer, Investment Advisor, or No License? How to start your research journey on regulatory licenses
When thinking about building your investing app, there’s one thing that you need to consider: regulatory licenses. Here's a high level framework to help you get started on your research journey.
Trading API
A guide to linking to Alpaca in Breaking Equity: Tools for algo trading coming together
With Breaking Equity and Alpaca combined, you can seamlessly build, test, and trade different automated strategies directly with your Alpaca account.
Broker API
Quickly mock up the account onboarding process of your commission-free trading app
Account onboarding comes with asking lots of questions. In this post, learn how to set up the initial version of the onboarding process as quickly as possible to start testing and improving the flow.
Trading API
How to test combined technical indicators with live market trading data using the RoboBull Trading Bot
Test out the effectiveness of technical indicators (and combining of them) with the RoboBull Trading Bot.
Broker API
Love it or Hate it: Inside Payment for Order Flow and Commission-Free Trading Apps
Understand what payment for order flow means, how the industry works, and what the controversy is all about.
Broker API
Getting Started with Broker API Q&A
We recently launched a webinar series, Getting Started with Broker API and gathered the most popular questions to help you get started.
Trading API
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.
Broker API
Open-Sourcing Commission-Free Trading App Code for Alpaca Broker API
We are open-sourcing the reference implementation of a commission-free mobile trading app called Ribbit, which is built on Alpaca Broker API.