How-to Guide

Trading API

Build a Chainlink External Adapter to Trade on Alpaca

Chainlink enables the easy integration of custom computations and specialized APIs using external adapters. We will use our EA’s to check prices for any equity or crypto using Alpaca APIs and then trade them using CLI.

Trading API

View Market Data in Augmented Reality with Market Data API and Snap Lens

Did you know that Alpaca is integrated with the Lens Studio AR creation tool? We're one of the few companies to offer real-time data in Lens Studio. Learn more in this post.

Trading API

How to Generate Your Alpaca API Client in 3 Steps With The OpenAPI Generator

Learn how to use Alpaca's OAS files to generate a client for Market Data API in any supported language that the OpenAPI Generator Project maintains.

Trading API

Displaying Stocks and Crypto News in Your JamStack Application

Learn how to build a JAMstack application that displays news from Alpaca News API.

Trading API

Coding a Cryptocurrency Trading Bot With Alpaca in Python

Create a live-trading cryptocurrency bot in under 50 lines of code. Learn how to use live data and technical indicators in order to decide when to buy or sell Bitcoin.

Trading API

How to Retrieve Free Equity Data with AlpacaMarkets.jl

Wondering how you can pull free stock market data using AlpacaMarkets.jl? Learn more in this post.

Trading API

How to Build a Desktop Based Crypto Application Using Electron.js

Learn how to build an Electron application with two processes: one main and one renderer.

Trading API

Financial Data Streaming with Alpaca and Streamlit

Understand how to stream financial data, particularly Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume data using Alpaca Streaming API, and plot them using Streamlit in real-time.

How-to Guide

Getting Started with Corporate Actions API: Announcements

Corporate Actions API: Announcements offers access to information on dividends, mergers, spinoffs, and stock splits.

Trading API

How to Enable Stock Market Trading from 4 am to 8 pm ET

Learn how you can enable and trade US exchange securities from 4 am to 8 pm ET Monday to Friday.

Broker API

How to integrate the Onfido SDK into your brokerage app

Learn how to integrate the Onfido SDK into your fintech app. With this new integration, we offer secure documentary verification to onboard end-users.

Trading API

How to Set Up Your Trading Platform — Part I

Understand what the retail algo-trading platform looks like and how to set it up yourself.