Pick paper or live
Practice with simulated fills first, or connect a funded account and trade with real money.
Built API-first for stocks, options, and spot crypto.
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.
Authorize with your Alpaca login — you'll sign in on Alpaca's own site
Practice with simulated fills first, or connect a funded account and trade with real money.
Sign in the way you normally would — no keys or secrets to copy in.
Point any strategy at this connection and every signal it receives routes straight to your account.
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.