Financial Data Streaming using Alpaca and Streamlit

This tutorial aims to stream financial data, particularly Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume data using Alpaca stream API, and plot them using streamlit in real-time.

So the tutorial can be divided into three parts

• Alpaca Streaming API v2
• Watchdog for tracking the file changes as new data comes in and re-run streamlit. This functionality comes out of the box in streamlit.
• Streamlit to plot the candlesticks charts for all the ticker symbols

The code for the tutorial can be found here

GitHub - Athe-kunal/FinRL-project

We will be generating candlestick plots for stocks in real-time

Real-time candlesticks plot for Bitcoin

Alpaca Streaming API

Alpaca offers simple, modern API-first solutions to enable anyone, either individuals or businesses, to connect applications and build algorithms to buy and sell stocks or crypto with zero commissions.

• You need to have your API keys and secret keys by creating an account in Alpaca.