How To Build a Stock Trading Bot With Alpaca and Python - Full Beginner Tutorial

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This tutorial will teach you how to connect to and use the Alpaca Markets API to trade stocks and stream stock market data. Link to Alpaca docs with which this tutorial is based on: https://alpaca.markets/sdks/python/getting_started.html 🐍 How To Setup and Run a Python File: Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9I-YpOjXVQ Mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NirAuEAblvo Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw-3bvAAkc0 ⏱️Timestamps: 00:00 What You're Learning 00:15 Pre-requisites 01:06 Setup your Alpaca Account for API Usage 02:23 Setup Dev Environment And Pip Install 04:02 Connect to the Alpaca API using Python Code And Get Account Info 06:15 Get Historical Data 11:35 Create First Market And Limit Orders 19:53 Get, Cancel and Manage Open Orders 27:50 Stream Data in Real Time