Broker
Alpaca
Built API-first for stocks, options, and spot crypto.
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Because Alpaca was designed API-first from day one, it's about as smooth a broker to automate as they come: commission-free equities, fractional shares, and a real-time paper environment that behaves like the real thing.
How connecting works
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Pick paper or live
Practice with simulated fills first, or connect a funded account and trade with real money.
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Authorize on Alpaca's site
Sign in the way you normally would: no keys or secrets to copy in.
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Assign it to a strategy
Point any strategy at this connection and every signal it receives routes to your account.
Good to know
Bracket, OTO, and OCO orders don't reach Alpaca's crypto or options products. Those fall back to simple orders instead. Fractional-share orders have to be day market orders, and they can't be shorted.
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