Stock Trading API | Community Examples

Start Planning For Your Taxes Throughout The Year

Tax planning may get overlooked when it comes to personal financial management. As investors may think about taxes during the filing deadline in April. With Reconcile, you can get a head start on tax planning with a real-time dashboard.

Use Cases

Building an End-to-End Trading Bot using Alpaca’s API, CircleCI, and Slack

I’ll explore the inner workings of a trading bot that uses the Alpaca API, CircleCI, and Slack for trade notifications.

Market Data API

View Market Data in Augmented Reality with Market Data API and Snap Lens

Did you know that Alpaca is integrated with the Lens Studio AR creation tool? We're one of the few companies to offer real-time data in Lens Studio. Learn more in this post.

JavaScript

Displaying Stocks and Crypto News in Your JamStack Application

Learn how to build a JAMstack application that displays news from Alpaca News API.

Trading API

How to Access Alpaca Trading API and Market Data API Using Golang

Learn how to use the Alpaca library for the Golang programming language.

Crypto

Coding a Cryptocurrency Trading Bot With Alpaca in Python

Create a live-trading cryptocurrency bot in under 50 lines of code. Learn how to use live data and technical indicators in order to decide when to buy or sell Bitcoin.

Community Examples

How to Retrieve Free Equity Data with AlpacaMarkets.jl

Wondering how you can pull free stock market data using AlpacaMarkets.jl? Learn more in this post.

Crypto

How to Build a Desktop Based Crypto Application Using Electron.js

Learn how to build an Electron application with two processes: one main and one renderer.

Community Examples

How to Build a Trading Bot with Alpaca and Trellis

Learn how to build a demo investment bot on Trellis to trade stocks on your Alpaca account.

Community Examples

Financial Data Streaming with Alpaca and Streamlit

Understand how to stream financial data, particularly Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume data using Alpaca Streaming API, and plot them using Streamlit in real-time.

Community Examples

How to Set Up Your Trading Platform — Part I

Understand what the retail algo-trading platform looks like and how to set it up yourself.

Community Examples

A Data Scientist’s Approach for Algorithmic Trading Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Let's walk through all the steps for paper trading to test a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) strategy in real life.

Community Examples

Algorithmic Trading in Python with Alpaca: Part 1

Get a basic understanding of how to interface Alpaca with Python.

Community Examples

How Blankly Finance is Making Quantitative Finance More Accessible

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.

Community Examples

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.

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.