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The Manual Alpaca — Manual Trading with Alpaca and Python
The Manual Alpaca — Manual Trading with Alpaca and Python
Execute trades with key strokes and lots of customization
Matt Haines
Feb 26, 2019
Using VBA and Excel to Make Authenticated Requests for Alpaca’s Trading API
Using VBA and Excel to Make Authenticated Requests for Alpaca’s Trading API
Part One: The GET Tutorial
Cory Sarver
Feb 21, 2019
Step-by-step guide to run a simple trading algorithm in the cloud using Python, Alpaca, and AWS
Step-by-step guide to run a simple trading algorithm in the cloud using Python, Alpaca, and AWS
The benefits of AWS include billing by usage and a free tier of cloud services, meaning you can get up and running with zero upfront cost!
samcha
Feb 19, 2019
Step-by-step guide to running a simple trading algorithm in the cloud using PythonAnywhere
Step-by-step guide to running a simple trading algorithm in the cloud using PythonAnywhere
PythonAnywhere is a nice option because it gives you some manner of GUI for accessing consoles, files, notebooks, and even scheduling tasks
samcha
Feb 14, 2019
Build a Day-Trading Algorithm and Run it in the Cloud — For Free
Build a Day-Trading Algorithm and Run it in the Cloud — For Free
Commission-free trading with Alpaca on a free Google Cloud Platform instance, step-by-step.
Trevor Thackston
Feb 8, 2019
Algorithmically Detecting (and Trading) Technical Chart Patterns with Python
Algorithmically Detecting (and Trading) Technical Chart Patterns with Python
Algorithmically trade technical Chart patterns using Python and the Alpaca API.
samcha
Jan 24, 2019
More Cloud Power- Google Compute Engine & Alpaca
More Cloud Power- Google Compute Engine & Alpaca
Building a GCE interface to Alpaca from start to finish.
Benn Fronk
Jan 22, 2019
In the Cloud- Heroku to Alpaca from start to finish
In the Cloud- Heroku to Alpaca from start to finish
These are the steps I used to successfully get Heroku to trade for me.
Benn Fronk
Jan 8, 2019
Easily visualize the correlation of your portfolio in Python
Easily visualize the correlation of your portfolio in Python
Roll your own stock market visualizations using the Alpaca API with Python
samcha
Jan 2, 2019
For Excel Persons — How to Pull Market Data with VBA
For Excel Persons — How to Pull Market Data with VBA
Walk through an example using real code of VBA to pull the market data from Alpaca’s API.
Cory Sarver
Dec 21, 2018
Easily Get Tick Data in Python with Alpaca API
Easily Get Tick Data in Python with Alpaca API
I’ve setup the script so the user can easily enter his/her desired options to pull tick data for a symbol-date pair.
Evan Akutagawa
Dec 17, 2018
Using Alpaca’s Stock Trading API with Insomnia REST Client
Using Alpaca’s Stock Trading API with Insomnia REST Client
How to debug and manually work in an automated world.
Tom Maiaroto
Dec 13, 2018
My Algo-Trading Environment
My Algo-Trading Environment
Developing, Hosting and Managing Strategies
Matthew Tweed
Dec 8, 2018
Making Your First Trading Algorithm
Making Your First Trading Algorithm
Simple strategies and trade execution using technical analysis and momentum
Matthew Tweed
Dec 7, 2018
Buying and Selling Stocks from the Command Line
Buying and Selling Stocks from the Command Line
How I built my own stock market command line interface using the recently released Alpaca Trading API
David Aaron Suddjian
Dec 6, 2018
Manage Your Stocks from Google Spreadsheet Using API
Manage Your Stocks from Google Spreadsheet Using API
You might think API trading is only for hard-core HFT programmers. That’s not true! Use a spreadsheet app with some formula, you can be…
Hitoshi Harada
Dec 4, 2018
Quick Review of Setting Up Alpaca API with Python
Quick Review of Setting Up Alpaca API with Python
Alpaca offers a simple REST API to build algos and applications
Matthew Tweed
Nov 29, 2018
Introducing Alpaca Backtrader Integration
Introducing Alpaca Backtrader Integration
Opensource Backtrader x Alpaca Stock Trading API integration — tutorials & code snippets
Hitoshi Harada
Nov 22, 2018
Algo Trading for Dummies — 3 Useful Tips When Storing Trade Signals (Part 2)
Algo Trading for Dummies — 3 Useful Tips When Storing Trade Signals (Part 2)
Handling & Storing Trading Signals Are Hard
Alpaca
Jun 25, 2018
Algo Trading for Dummies— Collecting & Storing The Market Data (Part 1)
Algo Trading for Dummies— Collecting & Storing The Market Data (Part 1)
The lifeblood of any algorithmic trading system is, of course, its data — so that’s what we’ll cover in the first two posts of the…
Alpaca
Jun 21, 2018
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