Open Source and Free Trading API with Python, Forget Robinhood

chad_strategic · on Nov 30, 2018

So this might be a great api and I’m excited there is competition in the api trading market place. But it not a great api unless it has a paper trading account. That’s why I’m stuck with IB.

shift8 · on Nov 30, 2018

Ah yes, well. It does indeed have free paper trading.

chad_strategic · on Dec 1, 2018

My bad. https://docs.alpaca.markets/broker-functions/papertrading/

astockwell · on Nov 30, 2018

What do you mean by paper trading account?

gricardo99 · on Nov 30, 2018

A demo account where you can do mostly everything with the trading api but not using real money. Versus the “production” real account that does use your real money

rwilson4 · on Nov 30, 2018

...and I’m bankrupt.