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Crypto

Using Replit to Build a Bitcoin Trading Bot
Coded & Analyzed Pairs Trading Strategy Using Bitcoin and Coinbase Stock
Buying Crypto using Alpaca Snapshot and Crypto APIs
Backtesting Bitcoin with Pandas and Market Data API
On-Chain Metric Investing Strategy with Glassnode API

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Community Examples

Linear Regression For a Momentum Based Trading Strategy Using Zipline Trader
View Market Data in Augmented Reality with Market Data API and Snap Lens
Displaying Stocks and Crypto News in Your JamStack Application
How to Access Alpaca Trading API and Market Data API Using Golang
Algorithmic Trading In Java with Alpaca

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Algorithmic Trading Basics

Using Replit to Build a Bitcoin Trading Bot
Coded & Analyzed Pairs Trading Strategy Using Bitcoin and Coinbase Stock
Research, Backtest, and Trade from a Jupyter Notebook in Google Colab
Sentiments Analysis of Financial News with News API and Transformers
Backtesting Bitcoin with Pandas and Market Data API

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Use Cases

On-Chain Metric Investing Strategy with Glassnode API
Create a Cross-Platform Trading App using Flutter
Low-Code Algorithmic Trading on Alpaca Using TradingView
No-Code Trading With Alpaca and Zapier
View Market Data in Augmented Reality with Market Data API and Snap Lens

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Events at Alpaca

Ways to Learn About Crypto and Web3
How to Choose the Correct Crypto Coin and Avoid Scams
Webinar Recap: How to Build a Fully Functional Trading App
Alpaca Crypto Beta Launch Q&A
Diversity in Web3 #026

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Python

Using Replit to Build a Bitcoin Trading Bot
Coded & Analyzed Pairs Trading Strategy Using Bitcoin and Coinbase Stock
Research, Backtest, and Trade from a Jupyter Notebook in Google Colab
Sentiments Analysis of Financial News with News API and Transformers
Buying Crypto using Alpaca Snapshot and Crypto APIs

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Trading API

Using Replit to Build a Bitcoin Trading Bot
Coded & Analyzed Pairs Trading Strategy Using Bitcoin and Coinbase Stock
Research, Backtest, and Trade from a Jupyter Notebook in Google Colab
Sentiments Analysis of Financial News with News API and Transformers
No-Code Trading With Alpaca and Zapier

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Market Data API

Using Replit to Build a Bitcoin Trading Bot
Coded & Analyzed Pairs Trading Strategy Using Bitcoin and Coinbase Stock
Research, Backtest, and Trade from a Jupyter Notebook in Google Colab
Buying Crypto using Alpaca Snapshot and Crypto APIs
Backtesting Bitcoin with Pandas and Market Data API

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Broker API

How Does Crypto Fee Pricing Compare to Stock Trading Fees?
Build Your Own Brokerage With FastAPI - Part 2
Build Your Own Brokerage With FastAPI - Part 1
Getting Started with Corporate Actions API: Announcements
How to Enable Stock Market Trading from 4 am to 8 pm ET

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investing-basics

What is a Bid Price?
What is an Ask Price?
What is a Portfolio?
What is a Buy Limit Order?
What is Stagflation?

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crypto-basics

What is HODL?
What is layer 2?
What is liquidity?
What is a fork?
What is Gas?

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Market News

Binance Backs Musk's $44 Billion Twitter Bid, Crypto Prices Plunge
Tesla to Accept Doge for Merch and the Fed Plans to Raise Interest Rates in 2022
How will the economy look in 2022?
Omicron and the Fed's Outlook Shift on U.S. Monetary Policy Heighten Market Volatility
Best Buy shares drop amid uptick in organized retail theft

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Industry

Binance Backs Musk's $44 Billion Twitter Bid, Crypto Prices Plunge
Wintermute Hit by $160 Million Hack, Fed Raises Interest Rates to Combat Inflation
Starbucks Partners With Polygon on Web3 Push, Ethereum Completes The Merge
TerraUSD Fallout Shakes The Crypto Market, Do Kwon Proposes Hard Fork
Here’s what you need to know about Nubank’s revenue model

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Machine Learning in Trading

Linear Regression For a Momentum Based Trading Strategy Using Zipline Trader
Risks of Automated Trading Systems
Alternative Bars in Alpaca: Part III - (Machine Learning Trading Strategy)
Building a Financial Machine Learning Pipeline with Alpaca
Comparing 3 Different Types of Neural Network Architectures in Finance - Intro into Machine Learning for Finance (Part 3)

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Hedge Fund Basics

LiuAlgoTrader — Part I — Power up!
API Algo Trading Landscape
HFT-like Trading Algorithm in 300 Lines of Code You Can Run Now
Ultimate List of Automated Trading Strategies You Should Know
Algorithmic Trading through a Business Account at Alpaca

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JavaScript

Build a Chainlink External Adapter to Trade on Alpaca
How to Generate Your Alpaca API Client in 3 Steps With The OpenAPI Generator
How to Create a Real-Time Charting App with Alpaca’s 20+ Crypto Coins
Displaying Stocks and Crypto News in Your JamStack Application
How To Create Your Own Trading App Using OAuth with React

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App Development

Create a Cross-Platform Trading App using Flutter
Low-Code Algorithmic Trading on Alpaca Using TradingView
No-Code Trading With Alpaca and Zapier
Add an Interactive Line Plot to your Trading App with Alpaca Market Data API
The Importance of User Experience in Fintech App Development

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crypto-api-guides

Using Replit to Build a Bitcoin Trading Bot
Coded & Analyzed Pairs Trading Strategy Using Bitcoin and Coinbase Stock
Buying Crypto using Alpaca Snapshot and Crypto APIs
Visualizing Orderbook Data with Alpaca Crypto API
Getting Started with Alpaca Crypto API

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Broker Interviews

Equitable Banking for Black Americans
Sherpa's Role in Reshaping Investing in Mexico
Wealth Generation and Onu’s Founding Story
Self-Directed Investing and Building Investing Confidence

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Videos

Equitable Banking for Black Americans
Sherpa's Role in Reshaping Investing in Mexico
Wealth Generation and Onu’s Founding Story
Self-Directed Investing and Building Investing Confidence

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Regulatory Licenses

Broker-Dealer, Investment Advisor, or No License? How to start your research journey on regulatory licenses
10 Common Compliance Challenges

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Backtesting

Research, Backtest, and Trade from a Jupyter Notebook in Google Colab
Introduction to Backtesting with VectorBT

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OAuth

Create a Cross-Platform Trading App using Flutter
How To Create Your Own Trading App Using OAuth with React

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SDK

The Advantages of Using Python for Algorithmic Trading
How to integrate the Onfido SDK into your brokerage app

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Swift

Add an Interactive Line Plot to your Trading App with Alpaca Market Data API

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News API

Sentiments Analysis of Financial News with News API and Transformers

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Code Recipes

Get All Orders

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Calculation Series

Stock Minute Bars

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Securities brokerage services are provided by Alpaca Securities LLC ("Alpaca Securities"), member FINRA/SIPC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AlpacaDB, Inc. Technology and services are offered by AlpacaDB, Inc.

Cryptocurrency services are made available by Alpaca Crypto LLC ("Alpaca Crypto"), a FinCEN registered money services business (NMLS # 2160858), and a wholly-owned subsidiary of AlpacaDB, Inc. Alpaca Crypto is not a member of SIPC or FINRA. Cryptocurrencies are not stocks and your cryptocurrency investments are not protected by either FDIC or SIPC. Please see the Disclosure Library for more information.

This is not an offer, solicitation of an offer, or advice to buy or sell securities or cryptocurrencies, or open a brokerage account or cryptocurrency account in any jurisdiction where Alpaca Securities or Alpaca Crypto respectively, are not registered or licensed, as applicable.

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Brokerage services are provided by Alpaca Securities, member FINRA/SIPC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AlpacaDB, Inc.

Technology and services are offered by AlpacaDB, Inc.

Brokerage services are provided to customers who can write automated investment code and self-direct their own investments. Alpaca brokerage services are only provided to customers who agree to electronically sign agreements and agree to receive messages, confirmations, and statements electronically. Is Alpaca right for me?

This is not an offer, solicitation of an offer, or advice to buy or sell securities or cryptocurrencies, or open a brokerage account or cryptocurrency account in any jurisdiction where Alpaca Securities or Alpaca Crypto respectively, are not registered or licensed, as applicable.

The Paper Trading API is offered by AlpacaDB, Inc. and does not require real money or permit a user to transact in real securities in the market. Providing use of the Paper Trading API is not an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities, securities derivative or futures products of any kind, or any type of trading or investment advice, recommendation or strategy, given or in any manner endorsed by AlpacaDB, Inc. or any AlpacaDB, Inc. affiliate and the information made available through the Paper Trading API is not an offer or solicitation of any kind in any jurisdiction where AlpacaDB, Inc. or any AlpacaDB, Inc. affiliate (collectively, "Alpaca") is not authorized to do business.

You should know that the use or granting of any third party access to your account information or place transactions in your account at your direction is solely at your risk. Alpaca does not warrant against loss of use or any direct, indirect or consequential damages or losses to you caused by your assent, expressed or implied, to a third party accessing your account or information, including access provided through any other third party apps, systems, or sites.

Market prices, data and other information available through Alpaca are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. System response and account access times may vary due to a variety of factors, including trading volumes, market conditions, system performance, and other factors. A more complete description of the impact these factors may have can be found in our risks of automated trading systems section.

All investments involve risk and the past performance of a security, or financial product does not guarantee future results or returns. Keep in mind that while diversification may help spread risk it does not assure a profit, or protect against loss, in a down market. There is always the potential of losing money when you invest in securities, or other financial products. Investors should consider their investment objectives and risks carefully before investing.

There are risks unique to automated trading algorithms that you should know about and plan for. You should setup a method or system of continuous monitoring or alerting to let you know if there is a mechanical failure, such as connectivity issues, power loss, a computer crash, or system quirk. You should also monitor for instances where your automated trading system experiences anomalies that could result in errant, missing, or duplicated orders. A more complete description of these and other risks can be found in our FAQ section.

Conditional orders may have increased risk as a result of their reliance on trigger processing, market data, and other internal and external systems. Such orders are not sent to the market until specified conditions are met. During that time, issues such as system outages with downstream technologies or third parties may occur. Conditional orders triggering near the market close may fail to execute that day. Furthermore, our executing partner may impose controls on conditional orders to limit erroneous trades triggering downstream orders. Alpaca Securities may not always be made aware of such changes to external controls immediately, which may lead to some conditional orders not being executed. As such, it is important to monitor conditional orders for reasonability. Conditional orders are “Not Held” orders whose execution instructions are on a best efforts basis upon being triggered. Furthermore, conditional orders may be subject to the increased risks of stop orders and market orders outlined above. Given the increased potential risk of using conditional orders, the client agrees that Alpaca Securities cannot be held responsible for losses, damages, or missed opportunity costs associated with market data problems, systems issues, and user error, among other factors. By using conditional orders the client understands and accepts the risks outlined above. Alpaca Securities encourages leveraging the use of Paper accounts to become more comfortable with the intricacies associated with these orders.

ETFs can entail risks similar to direct stock ownership, including market, sector, or industry risks. Some ETFs may involve international risk, currency risk, commodity risk, and interest rate risk. Trading prices may not reflect the net asset value of the underlying securities.

All accounts are opened as limited purpose margin accounts. You should know that margin trading involves interest charges and risks, including the potential to lose more than deposited or the need to deposit additional collateral in a falling market. Before using margin, customers must determine whether this type of trading strategy is right for them given their specific investment objectives, experience, risk tolerance, and financial situation. For more information please see Alpaca's Margin Disclosure Statement and Margin Agreement. These disclosures contain information on Alpaca Securities's lending policies, interest charges, and the risks associated with margin accounts.

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

Cryptocurrency is highly speculative in nature, involves a high degree of risks, such as volatile market price swings, market manipulation, flash crashes, and cybersecurity risks. Cryptocurrency is not regulated or is lightly regulated in most countries. Cryptocurrency trading can lead to large, immediate and permanent loss of financial value. You should have appropriate knowledge and experience before engaging in cryptocurrency trading. For additional information please click here.

Cryptocurrency services are made available by Alpaca Crypto, a FinCEN registered money services business (NMLS # 2160858), and a wholly-owned subsidiary of AlpacaDB, Inc. Alpaca Crypto is not a member of SIPC or FINRA. Cryptocurrencies are not stocks and your cryptocurrency investments are not protected by either FDIC or SIPC. Please see the Disclosure Library for more information.

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