client-python VS alpaca-trade-api-python

After a Deep research I found this golden list https://api.tiingo.com/ https://alpaca.markets/docs/api-references/market-data-api/stock-pricing-data/realtime/#updated-bars-updatedbars https://api.tiingo.com/documentation/websockets/iex https://moon.finage.co.uk/user/subscription/api https://github.com/polygon-io/client-python https://www.barchart.com/ondemand/api/getQuote https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/#real-time-quote

I use polygon with their python SDK for the prices of contracts I'm trading: https://github.com/polygon-io/client-python

Polygon.io provides free, simple API access to 2 years of minute-level data. We offer a Python libraryto help you get started, too.

Here's a link to our Python SDK if you're interested. Link

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.