Alpaca Trading API

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.

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.

Algorithmic Trading Basics

Using Replit to Build a Bitcoin Trading Bot

We’ll see how we can use Replit to write a paper trading bot that trades Bitcoin using Alpaca’s API. You can fork the code we write below from this Replit template.

Algorithmic Trading Basics

Research, Backtest, and Trade from a Jupyter Notebook in Google Colab

We provide an interactive environment you can use to quickly get started with Alpaca and start exploring what you can build. You can use this environment to research new ideas, backtest them and even place paper trades.

Trading API

Getting Started with TradingView Chart on Alpaca

If you're new to Alpaca, please follow the instructions to sign up for a free account. Use this guide to learn how to use our advanced charting features.

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.

Algorithmic Trading Basics

Coded & Analyzed Pairs Trading Strategy Using Bitcoin and Coinbase Stock

In the following sections, we’ll look at historical data to analyze a type of market neutral trade called a pairs trade. Then we will use our analysis of market data to formulate a trading strategy across crypto and equity markets.

Trading API

How to Place an Order Using the Fractional Shares API?

This tutorial is a step-by-step demonstration of how to place an order with the fractional shares API.

Trading API

How to Place a Bracket Order to Manage Entry & Exit?

An informative guide on how to place a bracket order - a chain of three orders that can be used to manage your position entry along with a target-exit and stop loss order.

Trading API

How to Use OAuth to Access Alpaca API?

This tutorial will be a step by step demonstration of connecting to OAuth using the Alpaca API. We will move forward assuming that you’ve registered on the Alpaca website.