Alpaca-API VS fundamental-analysis

Is there anyone using Alpaca for long term and passive investing? I am neither a US nor Europe residence, so it is pretty hard to find a decent broker. I came across alpaca.market https://alpaca.markets/ and noticed that there is zero comission for buying and selling stocks. I know that it has pretty good API especially for developers and day traders, but i am particularly interested in long term passive investing, and not interesting in day trading at all. Is it goog for long term passive investing (buying and holding etfs)?

No worries at all! https://alpaca.markets/ is another route for market data. Real time data is cheaper but it is lacking technical analysis. We used to use it and it's pretty good.

Alpaca: https://alpaca.markets/

Access to historical data from Alpaca and Yahoo Finance, or from your own data provider.

I have been looking at https://alpaca.markets/ and wanted to use it to test out some of my API based trading.

What guarantees or structures are in place to make sure it doesn't end up like FTX?

Market data is an easier one to answer. We currently use https://alpaca.markets/ and they're pretty good, but we're also looking at https://polygon.io/ as they're the industry leader (but also 2k per month for what we require).

I'm trying to make an HTTPS request with an ESP32 to this website alpaca.markets. I have the CA cert and I'm using WiFiClientSecure.h. Here's my code, main.cpp is underneath all that.

Or you can sign up for a free account at Alpaca and use their historical data API. Then you can get data on many tickers with one function call.

Alpaca https://alpaca.markets

Check Alpaca Markets

Usually, there are platforms like eodhistoricaldata.com, iexcloud.io or financialmodelingprep.com which provide data for a monthly fee. They also have their issues, but if reported, wrong data are usually fixed swiftly.

Having access to historical and live data is nice. Just use the free tier with financialmodelingprep.com to get an idea what it would be like to work with such data.

The other one I found was financialmodelingprep.com but their "is-market-open" API looks to return just the general opening/closing hour, holidays, and whether or not the market is open. Like it says the market hours even today is 9:30am-4pm which isn't what I'm looking for.

Is financialmodelingprep.com legit?

Then using financialmodelingprep.com api, I crossed all the information I could get my hands on from there to merge with the df I had. Things like "Year founded, HQ, number of employees, etc." Trying to see if there was anything interesting within the data. As an example, I used ggplot to show inventory trends over the years for the companies and you could see when the 2008 recession happened there was a significant drop in inventory carried by some companies. (Not all companies carry goods, some only provide services). But it was interesting to have a quick visual made and to compare them to other companies within the same sectors/industries.

Let me know if you need more help and I will look into https://financialmodelingprep.com. Is this a free or a paid service?

I use Financial Modelling Prep, it works pretty well and has a bunch of cool endpoints. I have the starter plan, costs about $24 a month which is reasonable, you get about 300 requests/min. (https://financialmodelingprep.com).

Depends on what you are building. Note - you can even use multiple based on specific features. Start with https://twelvedata.com or https://financialmodelingprep.com

quandl has lot of data sources, some are free to use. Check financialmodelingprep too.

I'm currently using stockrover.com and https://financialmodelingprep.com for getting DCF/Fair Value and Safety Margins and to Screen stocks according to my strategies.