Alpaca Trading Integration
Manages stock and cryptocurrency trading operations via the Alpaca API, including market data retrieval and order execution.
The Alpaca Trading skill empowers Claude to interact directly with the Alpaca API to facilitate programmatic stock and crypto trading within your development environment. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for fetching real-time quotes, historical bar data, and financial news, alongside robust order management capabilities for market, limit, and stop orders. With built-in safety guardrails—such as buying power checks, price validation, and market hour detection—this skill enables users to manage portfolios, track positions, and set price alerts for automated monitoring in both paper and live trading environments.