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get_alpaca_endpoint_docs

Retrieves and formats detailed information about a specific asset.

get_asset

Retrieves and formats market calendar for specified date range. WARNING: Always provide start and end dates (YYYY-MM-DD). Without date bounds the response contains the entire multi-year calendar and will be extremely large.

get_calendar

Retrieves and formats current market status and next open/close times.

get_clock

Retrieves a single corporate action announcement by ID.

get_corporate_action_announcement

Retrieves corporate action announcements (dividends, mergers, splits, spinoffs). Use a narrow date range and filter by symbol when possible — broad queries can return very large responses.

get_corporate_action_announcements

Retrieves and formats corporate action announcements.

get_corporate_actions

Retrieve historical price bars (OHLCV) for one or more cryptocurrencies. When start is omitted, it is automatically computed as now minus the days/hours/minutes lookback.

get_crypto_bars

Returns the latest minute bar for one or more crypto symbols. The loc parameter is required — always set loc to "us".

get_crypto_latest_bar

Returns the latest orderbook for one or more crypto symbols. The loc parameter is required — always set loc to "us". Note: the response includes the full order book depth and can be large.

get_crypto_latest_orderbook

Returns the latest quote for one or more crypto symbols. The loc parameter is required — always set loc to "us".

get_crypto_latest_quote

Returns the latest trade for one or more crypto symbols. The loc parameter is required — always set loc to "us".

get_crypto_latest_trade

Retrieve historical bid/ask quotes for one or more cryptocurrencies. When start is omitted, it is automatically computed as now minus the days/hours/minutes lookback.

get_crypto_quotes

Returns a snapshot for one or more crypto symbols including latest trade, quote, minute bar, daily bar, and previous daily bar. The loc parameter is required — always set loc to "us".

get_crypto_snapshot

Retrieve historical trade data for one or more cryptocurrencies. When start is omitted, it is automatically computed as now minus the days/hours/minutes lookback.

get_crypto_trades

Returns the latest quotes for fixed income securities (bonds, treasuries). Provide a comma-separated list of ISINs (e.g. 'US912797SX61,US912810SK51'). Returns bid/ask prices, sizes, and yield-to-maturity for each security.

get_fixed_income_latest_quotes

Returns the latest values for market indices (e.g. SPX, VIX, DJI). Provide a comma-separated list of index symbols.

get_index_latest_values

Returns historical values for market indices over a time interval. Supports pagination, sorting, and date range filtering. Provide a comma-separated list of index symbols.

get_index_values

Returns the top market movers (gainers and losers) based on real-time SIP data.

get_market_movers

Screens the market for most active stocks by volume or trade count.

get_most_active_stocks

Retrieves news articles for stocks and crypto. Filter by symbols, date range, and sort order. limit is per page and must be between 1 and 50; use page_token to fetch more. Returns headlines, summaries, URLs, and associated ticker symbols.

get_news

Retrieves and formats details for a specific open position.

get_open_position

Retrieves historical bar (OHLCV) data for one or more option contracts.

get_option_bars

Retrieves option chain data for an underlying symbol, including latest trade, quote, implied volatility, and greeks for each contract. The response can be very large. Use the type (call/put), strike_price_gte/lte, expiration_date, and limit parameters to narrow results.

get_option_chain

Retrieves a single option contract by symbol or contract ID.

get_option_contract

Retrieves option contracts for underlying symbol(s).

get_option_contracts

Retrieves the mapping of exchange codes to exchange names for option market data. Useful for interpreting exchange fields returned by other option data tools.

get_option_exchange_codes

Retrieves and formats the latest quote for one or more option contracts including bid/ask prices, sizes, and exchange information.

get_option_latest_quote

Retrieves the latest trade for one or more option contracts.

get_option_latest_trade

Retrieves comprehensive snapshots of option contracts including latest trade, quote, implied volatility, and Greeks.

get_option_snapshot

Retrieves historical trade data for one or more option contracts.

get_option_trades

Retrieves a single order specified by the client order ID. Note: if the order was replaced, this returns the original order (status "replaced") with a replaced_by field pointing to the new order ID.

get_order_by_client_id

Retrieves a single order by its ID.

get_order_by_id

Retrieves and formats orders with the specified filters.

get_orders

Retrieves account portfolio history (equity and P/L) over a requested time window.

get_portfolio_history

Retrieve historical price bars (OHLCV) for one or more stocks. When start is omitted, it is automatically computed as now minus the days/hours/minutes lookback.

get_stock_bars

Get the latest minute bar for one or more stocks.

get_stock_latest_bar

Retrieves and formats the latest quote for one or more stocks.

get_stock_latest_quote

Get the latest trade for one or more stocks.

get_stock_latest_trade

Retrieve historical bid/ask quotes (level 1) for one or more stocks. When start is omitted, it is automatically computed as now minus the days/hours/minutes lookback.

get_stock_quotes