Open Source and Free Trading API with Python, Forget Robinhood(medium.com)

18 pointsby sneakyapple8 anni fa6 comments

Open Source and Free Trading API with Python, Forget Robinhood

https://medium.com/automation-generation/quick-review-of-setting-up-alpaca-api-with-python-dd31f3ac045f

2 comments

So this might be a great api and I’m excited there is competition in the api trading market place. But it not a great api unless it has a paper trading account. That’s why I’m stuck with IB.

shift88 anni fa

Ah yes, well. It does indeed have free paper trading.

chad_strategic8 anni fa

My bad. https://docs.alpaca.markets/broker-functions/papertrading/

astockwell8 anni fa

What do you mean by paper trading account?

gricardo998 anni fa

A demo account where you can do mostly everything with the trading api but not using real money. Versus the “production” real account that does use your real money

rwilson48 anni fa

...and I’m bankrupt.