alpaca-trade-api-go VS alpaca-trade-api-python

Alpaca Trading API Go

I ended up switching to using alpaca_trade_api library and it takes all the headache of all that. Here’s the documentation: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-python

Alpaca Trading API Python

My advice is to learn to code in python well enough to use basic math functions and the requests package. Then put $100 into a brokerage with a really simple API like Alpaca and practice buying, selling, and monitoring your account (use this repo: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-python). You can paper trade if you want to day trade.

I’m using their python module. (https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-python) Overall I’d say the API is good enough for my types of strategies. For backtesting I use their get_barset() method.

According to their Python interfaces on GIT hub they are implementing some interesting new features. Here is the link to the main commit that I am looking at: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-python/commit/1391436dbba635efb56615739d91fdbb2f23cd9c

Yo. If you ever wanna make an api, can you make it like polygon, so like alpaca 🦙. streamconn.py the majority of the algo traders are just piggybacking of alpaca in their little notebooks to get then place a trade on Robinhood instead.