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Alpaca ACTION

Close All Positions

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
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • Destructive
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Alpaca account once, then configure and run Close All Positions from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "alpaca-close-all-positions",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    alpaca: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    isPaperAPI: true,
    cancelOrders: true,
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Close All Positions inputs
Property Type Description
isPaperAPI Paper API boolean
Set to true if Paper API is used. Default is false.
Optional
cancelOrders Cancel Orders boolean
If true is specified, cancel all open orders before liquidating all positions.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
alpaca-close-all-positions
Version
0.0.3
App
Alpaca
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
Yes
Open world
Yes