tradestation-python-api VS alpaca-trade-api-python

Connecting to the Tradestation API looks extremely difficult. I've found this GitHub repo that is trying to streamline the flow of authentication and placing orders (the code is written for v2 of the API which is currently on v3) but still it was very difficult for me. Decided to start trading with Alpaca Markets. Great API. Extremely easy to work with. Found great videos on the matter from a guy called Part Time Larry. Great videos. Very easy to work with and understand

You can use this Library And stream portfolio activity in real time https://github.com/areed1192/tradestation-python-api

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.