Open Source and Free Trading API with Python, Forget Robinhood

Posted by sneakyapple on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:48PM
from the medium.com dept.

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

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Re:Open Source and Free Trading API with Python, Forget Robi... by chad_strategic on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:08PM (#18565738)

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.

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Re:Open Source and Free Trading API with Python, Forget Robi... by shift8 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:32PM (#18566687)

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

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Re:Open Source and Free Trading API with Python, Forget Robi... by chad_strategic on Saturday December 01, 2018 @11:27AM (#18577400)

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

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Re:Open Source and Free Trading API with Python, Forget Robi... by astockwell on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:34PM (#18566429)

What do you mean by paper trading account?

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Re:Open Source and Free Trading API with Python, Forget Robi... by gricardo99 on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:11AM (#18566874)

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

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Re:Open Source and Free Trading API with Python, Forget Robi... by rwilson4 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:28PM (#18566106)

...and I’m bankrupt.

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