Alpaca
alpaca.marketsAlpaca provides autonomous trading support for building trading applications and broker integrations. It offers APIs to manage accounts, place and manage orders, and retrieve positions and order history—designed for reliable execution and streamlined automation. Alpaca is widely used by developers and trading teams who want programmatic control over trading workflows with clear account and order visibility.
With Alpaca connected, BOBs can take trading “operator” actions on your behalf—helping you execute plans consistently while reducing manual monitoring. BOBs can place orders, look up your account and current positions, and review your order status when you need clarity. When your trading rules call for risk control or cleanup, BOBs can close specific positions, close all positions, cancel individual orders, or cancel all outstanding orders.
This unlocks broader use cases like automated trade execution for predefined strategies, operational checklists before/after market moves, and faster responses to “stop trading / unwind everything” scenarios. Instead of constantly refreshing dashboards, BOBs can run the job: confirm what’s on the account, act on the next step, and safely exit when your conditions are met.
What can BOBs do with Alpaca?
Perform actions
- Cancel All Orders
- Cancel Order
- Close All Positions
- Close Position
- Get Account Info
- List Orders
- List Positions
- Place Order