Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission

A problem I've bumped into with Alpaca compared to other services is my bot needs 1 second bars, and I believe Alpaca goes down to 1min bars and nothing smaller.

Re: Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission

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Post by smabie » Sun, May 17, 2020, 3:12 AM UTC

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #4

sdan wrote: post #3

*using a service called Alpaca

Is that service available outside USA?

No.

Re: Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission

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Post by encyclopedia » Sun, May 17, 2020, 3:13 AM UTC

Would be interesting to tie it into what Elastic published about trading baskets of pharma companies related to drug development (COVID-19 included):

Generating and visualizing alpha with Vectorspace AI datasets and Canvas https://www.elastic.co/blog/generating-and-visualizing-alpha...

Generating Alpha from Information Arbitrage in the Financial Markets with NLP Datasets: 水涨船高 https://medium.com/hackernoon/profiting-from-information-arb...

algo guys take https://www.reddit.com/r/algotrading/comments/gkrb6f/generat...

Re: Show HN: Trade stocks from the command line with no commission

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Post by larrykubin » Sun, May 17, 2020, 3:14 AM UTC

Shameless plug: I started a YouTube channel on this topic that covers a lot of commission free trading API's, including Alpaca (got featured in their docs), Robinhood Private API, TD Ameritrade, Tradier, and more. I'm seeing a huge growth in interest in developing automated trading bots and algos. With commissions dropping to zero, there is a huge wave of day/swing traders that want to learn Python, so am creating as many tutorials as possible.

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