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Commission-free API

Building with the Alpaca API can make stock trading commission-free

Testing environment

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Real-time market data

Paper trading and live trading both with real-time market data

Margin and short selling

A wide array of advanced investing and trading strategies are supported

Want to build a trading app on top of our APIs? Head over to Broker API

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