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Market News

Evergrande Misses Payment Deadline and the Fed Prepares to Reverse Pandemic Stimulus Programs

China Evergrande, the most indebted real estate company in the world, spooks the global markets.

Broker API

Porting Passiv to Alpaca: a Dev’s Perspective

Alpaca is the first US brokerage supported by Passiv, and it’s not an accident.

Community Examples

LiuAlgoTrader Internals & Performance Tuning

How to monitor the LiuAlgoTrader framework, strategy performance, and tools to tune the code

Market News

Epic Games Pays Apple $6 Million and Amazon Kicks off Hiring Spree

Apple is not deemed a monopoly in the court ruling but must allow app developers to point to alternate payment options through buttons, external links, or other calls to action alongside their iOS apps.

Use Cases

Google Spreadsheet to Manage Your Stocks Using API

Algo-trade with only a Google spreadsheet! See how to build a portfolio management tool incorporating Alpaca Market Data v2

Community Examples

Simple Algo Trading with Alpaca and Streak

Learn how to deploy your Streak algorithm straight to Alpaca for simple automated trading.

Market News

El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin as Currency and China Suspends Approval for New Online Games

Bitcoin is now legal tender in El Salvador and China looks to curb gaming addiction among minors.

Market News

Ethereum Surges In Crypto Bull Run, OPEC+ Sticks With Gradual Oil Output Increase

Cardano and Solana were some of the big crypto winners of August. Over the past week or so, Ethereum has gotten in on the action and started to break out as well.

Events at Alpaca

Tobias Heaslip from Trading.TV #016

In Episode 16 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Tobias Heaslip. As the CEO and Founder of Trading.TV, Tobias discusses creator-led social investing, shoppable live streams, and how he started TTV as a solo founder.

Market News

SEC Brings The Hammer and Jackson Hole Goes Virtual Due to Delta

Markets are at an all time high before Jerome Powell’s speech today at Jackson Hole. Many Fed watchers believe that the virulent delta variant of Covid 19 will tie the Fed’s hands and they will not begin to taper by the end of the year.

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Benjamin Rollert from Composer #015

In Episode #15 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interview Ben Rollert. As the CEO and Co-founder of Composer, a no-code, visual editing tool for building automated investing strategies, Ben discusses the low-code, no-code phenomenon, what makes Composer different, and the roadmap ahead.

Community Examples

Meet Trellis: A No Code Algo Trading Bot Built with Alpaca OAuth

Trellis No Code Trading Bot Built on Alpaca OAuthPlease note that this article is for educational and informational purposes only. All screenshots are for illustrative purposes only. The views and

Market News

Grab Your Popcorn For This Week’s Round-Up Featuring Heavyweights Burry vs Wood

Burry vs. Wood, Robinhood reports its first post-IPO earnings, Target up +200% in stock value

Community Examples

Make a Discord Bot for you and your friends to trade stocks

Learn how to build a Discord bot that integrates with Alpaca.

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Giovanni Santostasi from AlphaHub and Quantonomy #014

In episode 14 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Giovanni Santostasi, CEO and Founder of AlphaHub and Quantonomy. Giovanni discusses his trading philosophy, his background in neuroscience and physics, and the primary users of Quantonomy and AlphaHub.

Community Examples

How to Manage a Portfolio with Liu

This article focuses on Stock Portfolio management with Liu: How to create, trade, and analyze your portfolio results.

Market News

COIN Best Seat in the House for a Crypto Bull Run

June CPI data came in up 5.4% year over year. This may not be high enough for the Fed to consider tapering faster or more aggressive than what the market currently expects. Investors seem to be in a “wait and see” posture when it comes to economic data and the Fed.

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Roger Cawdette of Finary #013

On our thirteenth episode of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Roger Cawdette, the Co-founder and CEO of Finary, a social investing platform building group chats for Gen Z and Millennials.

Community Examples

TipperBeats Twitter Integration with Alpaca API

An open-source trading engine utilizing the Twitter and Alpaca API