Alpaca Resources | Developer API for commission-free stock trading

Best Buy shares drop amid uptick in organized retail theft

Organized retail crime pressures retailers' finances as shares of BBY dropped over 12% in heavy trading on Tuesday.

Using Deep Learning to Create a Stock Trading Bot

Learn about the use of confidence intervals in stock trading to determine stop-loss and take-profit and the use of Alpaca in stock trading to track profits and test trading strategies.

Market News

Is Amazon ready to cut up their Visa cards?

Tensions between Amazon (AMZN) and payments company Visa (V) have increased recently. On Wednesday, shares of Visa were down over 4.5% in trading after Amazon announced that starting on January 19, 2022, Amazon would no longer accept Visa credit cards that were issued in the United Kingdom.

Broker API

Add market data to your trading app with Alpaca Market Data API

Here, we’ll explore another foundational feature: market data. We’ll chat briefly about our Market Data API and then use Ribbit to demonstrate powering the UI from it.

Crypto

What a fintech startup did to win #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt with Alpaca Crypto API

Launching on Product Hunt can seem daunting. What should you prepare? How can you increase traction? Here’s our take and what worked for Alpaca.

Algorithmic Trading Basics

Algorithmic Trading In Java with Alpaca

This is a Java implementation for the Alpaca API. Alpaca lets you trade with algorithms, connect with apps, and build services all with a commission-free stock trading API.

Market News

AMC plans to accept Shiba Inu payments, Rivian debuts on Nasdaq after massive IPO

AMC is planning to accept Dogecoin, and possibly Shiba Inu as well.

Broker API

Easily allow users to fund their account with Plaid and Broker API

We'll look at the core functionality of any trading app - account funding and executing orders.

Algorithmic Trading Basics

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.

Regulatory Licenses

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.

Crypto

How Does Crypto Fee Pricing Compare to Stock Trading Fees?

This article explains the differences between cryptocurrency and stocks and differences in fees.

Community Examples

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.

Community Examples

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.

Community Examples

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.