alpaca - Alpaca trading and account tools
Place and manage stock, crypto, and options orders, and inspect Alpaca accounts, positions, market data, assets, and watchlists.
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Updated: 2026-10-03Typical Inputs
What this skill does
- Read account balances
- Place trading orders
- Manage open orders
- List account activities
- Inspect portfolio history
- List open positions
- Close positions
- Exercise option positions
- Look up tradable assets
- Check market hours
- List option contracts
- Read watchlists
Inputs
- Alpaca account connection
- Order parameters
- Asset symbols
- Position identifiers
- Order identifiers
- Asset filters
- Option contract filters
- Date ranges
- Watchlist identifiers
Outputs
- Account balances and permissions
- Order status and fill details
- Updated order states
- Account activity records
- Portfolio equity and P&L history
- Position records and P&L
- Asset and contract records
- Market clock and calendar
- Watchlist records
- Trading state changes
Requirements
- Node.js 22.18 or later
- Installed npm dependencies
- Alpaca account connection
- Alpaca API authentication
- MCP, CLI, SDK, or direct API access