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API-first stock brokerage. *Securities are offered through Alpaca Securities LLC* http://alpaca.markets/#disclosures

Algorithmic Trading in Python with Alpaca: Part 1

Algorithmic Trading in Python with Alpaca: Part 1
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Get a basic understanding of how to interface Alpaca with Python.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Community Examples
How Blankly Finance is Making Quantitative Finance More Accessible

How Blankly Finance is Making Quantitative Finance More Accessible
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No more reading API or struggling to get data. Blankly offers a powerful feature-set, optimized for speed and ease of use, better backtesting, and ultimately better models.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Community Examples
Using Deep Learning to Create a Stock Trading Bot

Using Deep Learning to Create a Stock Trading Bot
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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.

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

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

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Broker API
Algorithmic Trading In Java with Alpaca

Algorithmic Trading In Java with Alpaca
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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.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Algorithmic Trading Basics
10 Common Compliance Challenges

10 Common Compliance Challenges
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We've put together the list of top ten compliance challenges being faced and to be affronted in the near future by businesses.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Regulatory Licenses
How Does Crypto Fee Pricing Compare to Stock Trading Fees?

How Does Crypto Fee Pricing Compare to Stock Trading Fees?
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This article explains the differences between cryptocurrency and stocks and differences in fees.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Crypto
Backtesting Tutorial Using Alpaca and JavaScript

Backtesting Tutorial Using Alpaca and JavaScript
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Backtest your trading algorithm using JavaScript and Node.js with Alpaca.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Community Examples
A guide to linking to Alpaca in Breaking Equity: Tools for algo trading coming together

A guide to linking to Alpaca in Breaking Equity: Tools for algo trading coming together
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With Breaking Equity and Alpaca combined, you can seamlessly build, test, and trade different automated strategies directly with your Alpaca account.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Community Examples
How to test combined technical indicators with live market trading data using the RoboBull Trading Bot

How to test combined technical indicators with live market trading data using the RoboBull Trading Bot
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Test out the effectiveness of technical indicators (and combining of them) with the RoboBull Trading Bot.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Community Examples
Love it or Hate it: Inside Payment for Order Flow and Commission-Free Trading Apps

Love it or Hate it: Inside Payment for Order Flow and Commission-Free Trading Apps
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Understand what payment for order flow means, how the industry works, and what the controversy is all about.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Broker API
Getting Started with Broker API Q&A

Getting Started with Broker API Q&A
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We recently launched a webinar series, Getting Started with Broker API and gathered the most popular questions to help you get started.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Broker API
Algo Trading Tutorial Using Alpaca and JavaScript: Part Two

Algo Trading Tutorial Using Alpaca and JavaScript: Part Two
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Welcome to part two of this tutorial on using JavaScript and Node.js with Alpaca to do algo-trading.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Community Examples
Algo Trading Tutorial Using Alpaca and JavaScript: Part One

Algo Trading Tutorial Using Alpaca and JavaScript: Part One
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Make a simple request to the Alpaca API to retrieve your account information using JavaScript and Node.js.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Community Examples
Coinbase and Others Enter the NFT Space and Gitlab Raises Over $800 Million in IPO

Coinbase and Others Enter the NFT Space and Gitlab Raises Over $800 Million in IPO
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On Tuesday, Coinbase (COIN) announced that it has plans to start a peer to peer NFT marketplace on its platform.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Market News
Build a Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) Service with Cloudflare Workers and the Alpaca API

Build a Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) Service with Cloudflare Workers and the Alpaca API
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Set up dollar cost averaging (DCA) purchases of traditional stocks and ETFs using the Alpaca API.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Community Examples
How to Build a Recurring Investment Bot in Trellis

How to Build a Recurring Investment Bot in Trellis
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Trellis is a platform where anyone can build a trading bot in under five minutes without code.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Community Examples
Netflix Diversifies into Gaming and Microsoft Teams Up with Epic Games

Netflix Diversifies into Gaming and Microsoft Teams Up with Epic Games
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Goodbye, September! Hello October and pumpkin spiced everything. So far for 2021, September seems to be the worst performing month with the S&P 500 down 4.7% from the close on August 31, 2021.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
Market News
Martin Sokk from Lightyear #017

Martin Sokk from Lightyear #017
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In Episode 17 of Fintech Underground by Alpaca, we interviewed Martin Sokk. As the CEO and Co-founder of Lightyear, Martin discusses his product expansion strategy across Europe, differences between the US and European markets, and more.

Alpaca Team
Alpaca Team
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