Great video, Larry. Something your viewers may want to be aware of: I started using Alpaca given their promise of zero commissions. After learning their API and trading with them for months, suddenly they told me I was categorized as a non-retail investor and they would charge me fees. Very large fees...more than half of the profits I make in a good day. They didn't seem to care for an explanation either. When I protest, they point me to the fine-print, which practically says they can change their mind any time and start charging fees. So, don't necessarily trust them when they say zero commissions.
Thanks, there have definitely been some changes since this video was made. The market data API was $9 a month when I covered it earlier this year, and is now $99 a month. I do think it's a great API if you are building an app or an investment business like composer.trade.
Part time Larry, Full time Awesome! I was struggling with the api for 2 days, and kept getting a response of forbidden, but now I'm actually connecting. Thanks for the clear and concise content. Larry is the homie.
You are awesome to watch, thank you for trying out Alpaca for us. Algorithmic trading has been a goal of mine for a long time. I hope to be this skilled one day
Great job! Your instruction is always easy to follow. Thought it will work for Australian Stock, but actually for US residents only. But do enjoy the paper trading. Thanks Larry
Great tutorial for dummies. I had to try and try until finally got it. Horrible typos from my part, but again, great tutorial. I can now test on Paper Money. Thanks a lot.
I'm not sure why, get_orders worked for me when I initially set this up, but now it does not return anything when I run the program. I set it up using this tutorial roughly a month ago and wanted to get into your next videos but tested the existing program and now nothing happens. I verified the api keys haven't changed and there aren't any errors which is weird.
Did they Change the way for the API key ? Getting (venv) C:\Users\MATT\PycharmProjects\AutoTrade>python Trade.py b'{"code":40110000,"message":"access key verification failed : access key not found (Code = 40110000)"}' I'm not to sure what I"m missing .
spoke to alpaca, they told me u need to fund your live account before you can get live data for paper trading/live trading. once u fund the account this error should go away..
Hello Larry, is there any possibilities for connect tradingview to alpaca for our signal alert for spot and margins ? i watched your video but you define json file everytime if possible ı want to see video ıf possibe
When I was signing up it wanted every single bit of my information my social security number everything it didn't do that with him I'm not giving any website that I don't know my social security number
Every brokerage will get your info for tax purposes. You are right that it is a newer brokerage, but many of the established older companies don't have API access or they are hard to program.
i am 2 weeks into learning python, so obviously i have a long way to go and do not understand everything in the video, do you have any recommendations for any online document or course someone like me would take to learn to make trading algorithms?
Great stuff!!! Could you do a video on how to create a sell order the same way? An alert from TradingView triggers a sell order for all shares of the stock symbol message ticker . Thank you!!!
Did you see the other video in the channel on TradingView alerts and alpaca? That should do what you want, but been thinking of recording a variation that uses a VPS instead of Lambda.
Hi! Larry. I have a requirement. I am a high speed scalper using hotkeys to get in and out of the trade. My current setup is that i have pre-filled orders ready to be fired like the Qty,MKT/LMT order, etc... for example. if i want to buy 500 shares of an instrument at limit price with offset of + or - 2 cents i hit Ctrl+B. Also i have hotkeys for exiting the position like Ctrl + S to liquidate 50% of my position. Can i program something like this using python? If so can you please make a video on that?
I don't, this video was made a couple years ago and I recorded it a couple hours after I heard about Alpaca on twitter. I think this was pretty early on, so the Alpaca python package was earlier in development and may have had an issue, so just used endpoints directly. There was also a time right after the bracket order feature was enabled where you could use the endpoints directly but it was not yet part of the python package for another week or two.
Anyone know what this mean made 3k and when I tried to close the position i got this ,and when I woke up this morning my order was canceled ! On trading view I get the a “Broker incorrectly implements API” everytime I try to close a trade
What is your favorite commission free trading API? Would love to make videos on some others. In the previous video I used the Robinhood private API, but the drawback there was that is isn't official or supported and could change anytime. The others I have tried were more difficult to get started with (Ameritrade) or had high commission fees at the time. Do you have any recommendations? Thanks!
Seems like your Alpaca API key and secret may be missing or incorrect. When you generate a new one, it deletes the old, I've run into that before as well.
spoke to alpaca, they told me u need to fund your live account before you can get live data for paper trading/live trading. once u fund the account this error should go away..
Yeah I created a real account too and have keys for both real and paper trading. From reading the Alpaca docs, they say it doesn't have a minimum deposit. So game on :)
I copied your code, but I am getting b'{"code":40110000,"message":"access key verification failed : access key not found (Code = 40110000)"}' error. Please help
Great video, Larry. Something your viewers may want to be aware of: I started using Alpaca given their promise of zero commissions. After learning their API and trading with them for months, suddenly they told me I was categorized as a non-retail investor and they would charge me fees. Very large fees...more than half of the profits I make in a good day. They didn't seem to care for an explanation either. When I protest, they point me to the fine-print, which practically says they can change their mind any time and start charging fees. So, don't necessarily trust them when they say zero commissions.
Thanks, there have definitely been some changes since this video was made. The market data API was $9 a month when I covered it earlier this year, and is now $99 a month. I do think it's a great API if you are building an app or an investment business like composer.trade.
Part time Larry, Full time Awesome! I was struggling with the api for 2 days, and kept getting a response of forbidden, but now I'm actually connecting. Thanks for the clear and concise content. Larry is the homie.
What a champ. This guy really knows his stuff!
I’m a week into learning Python.. you my friend are simply amazing! Please upload more content when you have time
You are awesome to watch, thank you for trying out Alpaca for us. Algorithmic trading has been a goal of mine for a long time. I hope to be this skilled one day
You sir are underrated... keep up these alpaca coding videos pls
Thanks! More coming over the holidays!
Great job! Your instruction is always easy to follow. Thought it will work for Australian Stock, but actually for US residents only. But do enjoy the paper trading. Thanks Larry
thanks , just discovered Alpaca yesterday, this vid was cool. more Alpaca tuts
Thank you Larry for all your amazing works! This channel is gold-mined!
This is fantastic. Please do part 2. Amazing job
Great video and solid programming skills, well done.
Nice! Exactly what I need at this moment!
Thanks a million Larry
nice api, thanks for pointing out. I think you can do r.json() rather than json.loads(response.content)/saves you the imports...
great video! it helped me out a ton with a project I'm working on. keep it up!!!
Great tutorial for dummies. I had to try and try until finally got it. Horrible typos from my part, but again, great tutorial. I can now test on Paper Money. Thanks a lot.
Glad it worked!
Great video! Got me up and running in no time
Thank you Larry!
So clear, great vid!
I need a friend like this just about everything he is doing is hurting my head I'm so lost but I'm very interested in learning how you do all of this
the get_orders() function is not working well, when I called it, return an empty list. how to solve this?
I'm not sure why, get_orders worked for me when I initially set this up, but now it does not return anything when I run the program. I set it up using this tutorial roughly a month ago and wanted to get into your next videos but tested the existing program and now nothing happens. I verified the api keys haven't changed and there aren't any errors which is weird.
Excellent Tutorials!
Did they Change the way for the API key ? Getting (venv) C:\Users\MATT\PycharmProjects\AutoTrade>python Trade.py
b'{"code":40110000,"message":"access key verification failed : access key not found (Code = 40110000)"}'
I'm not to sure what I"m missing .
I have the same output.
I am getting the same error. how did it get solved?
@Matty Trades did you fix this problem , what should we do to fix it
spoke to alpaca, they told me u need to fund your live account before you can get live data for paper trading/live trading. once u fund the account this error should go away..
Weird that I recently got interested into coding and stocks at the same time, didn’t know they correlate like this.
Thank you very much.
Can Alpaca be used to scan the stocks too? I am talking custom coded scans not pre-made scans like trade ideas.
Hey could you zoom in a bit next time? Great video!
Hello Larry, is there any possibilities for connect tradingview to alpaca for our signal alert for spot and margins ? i watched your video but you define json file everytime if possible ı want to see video ıf possibe
When I was signing up it wanted every single bit of my information my social security number everything it didn't do that with him I'm not giving any website that I don't know my social security number
Every brokerage will get your info for tax purposes. You are right that it is a newer brokerage, but many of the established older companies don't have API access or they are hard to program.
i am 2 weeks into learning python, so obviously i have a long way to go and do not understand everything in the video, do you have any recommendations for any online document or course someone like me would take to learn to make trading algorithms?
Thank You!!!🙌
Great stuff!!! Could you do a video on how to create a sell order the same way? An alert from TradingView triggers a sell order for all shares of the stock symbol message ticker . Thank you!!!
Did you see the other video in the channel on TradingView alerts and alpaca? That should do what you want, but been thinking of recording a variation that uses a VPS instead of Lambda.
Part 2, please!
More content coming next week!
10:38 , you can directly do response.json()
no fees? how do they make money?
Hi! Larry. I have a requirement. I am a high speed scalper using hotkeys to get in and out of the trade. My current setup is that i have pre-filled orders ready to be fired like the Qty,MKT/LMT order, etc... for example. if i want to buy 500 shares of an instrument at limit price with offset of + or - 2 cents i hit Ctrl+B. Also i have hotkeys for exiting the position like Ctrl + S to liquidate 50% of my position. Can i program something like this using python? If so can you please make a video on that?
Brilliant!
Hey Larry why do you prefer the standard requests over the python wrapper?
I don't, this video was made a couple years ago and I recorded it a couple hours after I heard about Alpaca on twitter. I think this was pretty early on, so the Alpaca python package was earlier in development and may have had an issue, so just used endpoints directly. There was also a time right after the bracket order feature was enabled where you could use the endpoints directly but it was not yet part of the python package for another week or two.
Anyone know what this mean made 3k and when I tried to close the position i got this ,and when I woke up this morning my order was canceled ! On trading view I get the a “Broker incorrectly implements API” everytime I try to close a trade
hey man, love your content any way to contact you? I had a look at your git and website but no contact? I have a query perhaps you could help with?
Hey how could I make this program with a GUI
Is alpaca live trading accessible in Sierra Leone(Africa)
great video!
Thank you!!
What is the python IDE you are using? Thanks.
pycharm
What is the advantage of alpaca compared to other APIs? i dont get it.
What is your favorite commission free trading API? Would love to make videos on some others. In the previous video I used the Robinhood private API, but the drawback there was that is isn't official or supported and could change anytime. The others I have tried were more difficult to get started with (Ameritrade) or had high commission fees at the time. Do you have any recommendations? Thanks!
Nice video, very helpful. Will be checking out some of your other vids, also. BUT -- PLEASE TURN OFF THE AUDIO IN THE NEXT ROOM! IT'S ANNOYING!
Can you show what is inside your Config.py file?
He can but it's sensitive, which is why he hid it lol.
He created sample_config.py, to show you the structure/format
Nice! But I follow it and get this error!??! code":40110000,"message":"access key verification failed : access key not found someone know why?
Seems like your Alpaca API key and secret may be missing or incorrect. When you generate a new one, it deletes the old, I've run into that before as well.
Did you fix this problem? I have the same output , can you tell me what should I do to fix it please?
spoke to alpaca, they told me u need to fund your live account before you can get live data for paper trading/live trading. once u fund the account this error should go away..
You don't have to pass in symbol = symbol, price=price man. Pass in a dictionary and then unpack it using **.
do you have a git hub repo for alpaca?
Just started it, will be pushing source code to github.com/financehacks
pls code link
Learn to do it yourself. It's better that way
You can't use paper trading because without funding account, polygon API KEY not supported. Game over)
Yeah I created a real account too and have keys for both real and paper trading. From reading the Alpaca docs, they say it doesn't have a minimum deposit. So game on :)
@@parttimelarry but only for US residents :-(
I WILL PAY SOMEONE WHO HELP ME TO BUILD A BOT TO TRADE
i can help you if you still need one..
How do these free trading platforms make their money? #Suspicious....
Read...
docs.alpaca.markets/about-us/
I copied your code, but I am getting b'{"code":40110000,"message":"access key verification failed : access key not found (Code = 40110000)"}' error. Please help
where is git link