How to Build a Fintech Investing App w/ Alpaca API (Raven - Pt 1)
Showing you how to build a stock trading app using Alpaca API with step-by-step code snippets. Calling our demo iPhone app "Raven"😎
Alpaca Founders Yoshi & Hitoshi Talk About Alpaca Story, Vision, Roadmap at the 1st Open Office Hour
Alpaca's co-founders Yoshi and Hitoshi casually talked about the story, vision, and roadmap at the 1st open office hour last week.
Alpaca Trading Competition Vol 00 Leaderboard
Leaderboard for Alpaca Trading Competition Vol 00, where all the quants, developers, tech-savvy traders can participate globally
Trading Contest Fine Print - Rules
Contest rule for the Alpaca Trading Competition, where all the developers, quants, tech-savvy traders can participate globally
How I Built an Elixir Wrapper for Alpaca API
James Russo, Software Engineer at Brex, writes about how he built an Elixir wrapper for the Alpaca API.
More Features with Amazon Alexa and Alpaca
With Amazon Alexa and Alpaca API, you can split up orders into three different kinds of intents: market, stop or limit, and stop limit.
Creating an Alexa Skill to Execute Trades
Follow this tutorial to teach your Alexa a skill that will link end up linking your Alpaca account, therefore allowing for trades via Amazon device!
Concurrent Scalping Algo Using Async Python
Automating My Manual Scalping Trading Strategy - One of the advantages of running algorithmic trading strategies is that you can quickly and consistently act on price action.
Trade & Account Streaming with Slack - Building a Slackbot (Part 3)
Detailing how to implement account and trade updates streaming with Slack and your Alpaca account.
Adding More Trading Commands - Building a Slackbot (Part 2)
This article is the second installment of a 3-part series, detailing how to add more functionality to the Slackbot I created in the first installment.
Stock Trading Using a Slackbot - Building a Slackbot (Part 1)
Hi, I’m Andrew, an intern at Alpaca from Northwestern! As a college student curious about both tech and financial spaces, I was able to leverage Alpaca’s trading API to build a Slackbot.
Trade Stocks in Your Browser Using Google Colab & Alpaca API
Google Colab allowing you to run Python Jupyter Notebook in the cloud. Introducing to utilize this environment for quant finance and algorithmic trading.
Martingale Day-Trading with the Alpaca Trading API
Testing out an old betting system Martingale with algorithmic trading in Python. This article talks about applying a theoretical betting strategy to a day-trading algorithm’s position sizing.
Manually Trading Stocks Using Postman and the Alpaca API
You can manually trade stocks using Postman with Alpaca Trading API. This is one of how-to getting started and testing the API.
Long-Short Algorithmic Trading in JavaScript (Node.js) Using Stock API
In this post, I will be sharing how I created a simple Long-Short Equity trading script in JavaScript (a Node.js app) using Alpaca’s free paper trading API.
How to Build a DIY Socially Responsible Investing Robo - A Farewell to Swell
Founded in 2017, Swell was an investment advisor and platform that focused exclusively on socially responsible investing. Here is how you can build one DIY.
Algorithmic Trading through a Business Account at Alpaca
Alpaca now supports business accounts who want to do algorithmic trading. This post should help you to find why useful to trade through a business entity such as a startup hedge fund, prop trading firm etc.
Building a Twitter Bot to Tweet My Trades
I thought it would be great to share my trading activity through Twitter for a realtime view of all executions. So here is how to build a twitter bot to tweet my trades.
A Simple Mean Reversion Stock Trading Script in C#
A code snippet for a simple mean reversion stock trading in C#. We use fundamental analysis in this algorithmic trading.