Alpaca Paper Trading

Returns a list of account activities such as fills, dividends, and transfers.

get_account_activities

Returns account activity entries for a specific type of activity.

get_account_activities_by_type

Retrieves the current account configuration settings, including trading restrictions, margin settings, PDT checks, and options trading level.

get_account_config

Retrieves and formats the current account information including balances and status.

get_account_info

Get all available assets with optional filtering. WARNING: The unfiltered response is very large (thousands of assets). Always narrow results with the status, asset_class, or exchange parameters. To look up a single asset, use get_asset instead.

get_all_assets

Retrieves all current positions in the portfolio as JSON.

get_all_positions

Fetch reference docs for one exact Alpaca API endpoint by method and path. Use when the endpoint is already resolved and details such as parameters, request shape, responses, or examples are needed. Read-only; does not execute the endpoint; excludes Broker API.

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