Alpaca Trading API

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.

Videos

Chatting with Alpaca: Backend Operations for a Trade

In this video, our VP of Operations, Allen Spence, walks us through what happens when you place a trade!

Crypto

How To Trade Crypto Using Machine Learning

Machine learning empowers traders to accelerate and automate one of the most complex, time-consuming, and challenging aspects of algorithmic trading, providing a competitive advantage beyond rules-based trading.

Crypto

Algorithmic Trading with Twitter Sentiment Analysis

Cryptocurrencies are already known to move heavily based on perception, so it could be that there is an edge to monitoring the sentiment on platforms like Twitter.

Crypto

Reddit Sentiment Analysis Trading Strategy

By gaining a better quantitative understanding of how communities feel about crypto and the crypto markets, algo traders can gain an edge over other traders.

Crypto

Algorithmic Trading With TWAP and VWAP Using Alpaca

Calculate VWAP and TWAP indicators and learn how to create a simple algorithmic trading bot that makes buy and sell decisions based on VWAP.

Crypto

Automated Crypto Scalping with Alpaca

To execute this strategy successfully, we are building an algorithmic trading bot that will try to capture small profits trading ETH/USD.

App Development

No-Code Trading With Alpaca and Zapier

Here's a look at our integration with Zapier that lets you perform specific actions on your live trading account.

Crypto

Build a Dollar Cost Average Bot with Crypto API

We'll test out how a DCA strategy into Ethereum performs against a lump sum investment. Then, we'll build a live market bot that DCAs into Ethereum over any specified timeframe

Crypto

Build a Chainlink External Adapter to Trade on Alpaca

Chainlink enables the easy integration of custom computations and specialized APIs using external adapters. We will use our EA’s to check prices for any equity or crypto using Alpaca APIs and then trade them using CLI.

Crypto

Pairs Trading Dogecoin and Shiba Inu with Alpaca Crypto API

Pairs Trading is a strategy that attempts to exploit the difference in returns of two highly correlated assets. In this post, learn more about pairs trading with Dogecoin and Shiba Inu using Alpaca Crypto API.

Crypto

How to Generate Your Alpaca API Client in 3 Steps With The OpenAPI Generator

Learn how to use Alpaca's OAS files to generate a client for Market Data API in any supported language that the OpenAPI Generator Project maintains.

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

Make Your Own Crypto ETF Analog using Alpaca’s Crypto API

Learn how to take advantage of our new coin offerings by creating a diverse basket of crypto holdings, which will comprise our ETF. We then regularly rebalance our ETF to keep our allocation balanced across each coin.

Trading API

13 Order Types You Should Know About When Investing

Learn about the 13 order types that Alpaca offers, starting with the basics and working through to more advanced order types.

Broker API

Getting Started with Corporate Actions API: Announcements

Corporate Actions API: Announcements offers access to information on dividends, mergers, spinoffs, and stock splits.

Trading API

How to Enable Stock Market Trading from 4 am to 8 pm ET

Learn how you can enable and trade US exchange securities from 4 am to 8 pm ET Monday to Friday.

Algorithmic Trading Basics

Sentiments Analysis of Financial News with News API and Transformers

Alpaca now provides news data via API, allowing you to access market moving content from timely and trusted sources. In the following sections, we’ll learn how to use the news data API to place trades based on sentiment analysis.