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Overview#
Alpaca API allows you to harness the power of automated trading by providing an interface to manage your stock and equity portfolio through simple API calls. It's particularly suited for building trading bots, algorithmic trading strategies, or just automating interactions with your investment portfolio. Whether you're looking to place trades based on specific market conditions, automatically adjust your portfolio in response to certain triggers, or simply streamline your investment activities, Alpaca's trading API offers a robust solution.
import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
alpaca: {
type: "app",
app: "alpaca",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://api.alpaca.markets/v2/account`,
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.alpaca.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
},
})
},
})
Example Use Cases#
Automated Trading Bot: Create a trading bot on Pipedream that reacts to real-time market data from a separate financial data app (like Alpha Vantage). When certain stock prices hit predefined thresholds, the bot can execute trades on Alpaca, enabling responsive and dynamic trading strategies.
Portfolio Rebalancing: Set up a Pipedream workflow that periodically checks your portfolio performance on Alpaca and compares it with desired asset allocations. If deviations are detected, automatically generate and execute orders to buy or sell assets to maintain the balance, ensuring your investments stay aligned with your strategy.
Market Alerts to Slack: Get instant notifications in a Slack channel when certain stocks reach trigger points. A workflow on Pipedream listens for market data changes, and when specific conditions are met, it sends an alert to Slack using the Slack app, so you can make timely investment decisions or just stay informed.
Popular Alpaca Integrations#
Popular Alpaca Actions#
Attempts to cancel all open orders. A response will be provided for each order that is attempted to be cancelled. If an order is no longer cancelable, the server reject the request, See the docs
Attempts to cancel an open order. If the order is no longer cancelable (example: status=filled), the server will reject the request, See the docs
Closes (liquidates) all of the account’s open long and short positions. A response will be provided for each order that is attempted to be cancelled. If an order is no longer cancelable, the server will reject the request, See the docs
Closes (liquidates) the account’s open position. Works for both long and short positions, See the docs
Authentication#
Name Slug: alpacaAlpaca uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Alpaca account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Alpaca and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Alpaca API.
Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:
account:writetradingdata- authorization
GEThttps://app.alpaca.markets/oauth/authorize?client_id={{oauth.client_id}}&redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}&state={{oauth.state}}&response_type=code&scope={{oauth.space_separated_scopes}} - accessToken
POSThttps://api.alpaca.markets/oauth/tokencontent-type:application/x-www-form-urlencodedaccept:application/jsonclient_id={{oauth.client_id}}&client_secret={{oauth.client_secret}}&redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}&grant_type=authorization_code&code={{oauth.code}}
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