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Use TradersPost to automate TradingView or TrendSpider strategies in your own Alpaca brokerage account. Send alerts to TradersPost and we route orders to the account you connect.

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  • Paper account for testing

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Your strategies. Your accounts. Your rules.

Connect each strategy to your accounts, then choose how it trades in each one.

  • NVDA Momentum Waiting for alertBuy alert received
  • Mean Reversion Waiting for alertBuy alert received
  • New strategy
  • Alpaca 1x NVDA
  • Alpaca 2x NVDA
  • Alpaca Paused
Strategies connected to Alpaca accounts. Each connection has its own size and sides, and each active one places the order in its account.

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See your signal reach Alpaca

1. Signal source

2. Sends orders to

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TradingView / Chart alert

TradingView · Create alert

Message

{
  "ticker": "{{ticker}}",
  "action": "{{strategy.order.action}}"
}
TradersPost / via webhook Live

3 orders from one signal

AccountOrderStatus
Alpaca account 1Buy 10 AAPLSent
Alpaca account 2Buy 10 AAPLSent
Tradier accountBuy 10 AAPLSent

A TradingView alert for AAPL reaches TradersPost and becomes a market buy for 10 shares on 2 Alpaca accounts and 1 Tradier account.

Alpaca at a glance

Alpaca is an API-first broker. TradersPost can send stock, crypto, and stock-option orders to an Alpaca account you authorize, including Alpaca paper.

Assets
Stocks, Crypto, Stock Options
Account types
Live + Paper
Authentication
OAuth
No API keys to copy
Fractional quantity
Supported
Up to 9 decimals
Complex orders
Bracket, OCO, OTO
On Stocks
Quantity limits
You set them
A maximum for each of up to 25 tickers. An order past it is rejected or reduced to your maximum
Minimum order
$10
On Crypto
Signal sources
Any webhook
Code, automation tools, AI workflows, TradingView

What Alpaca supports

Order types and features by asset class, as TradersPost sends them to Alpaca.

Alpaca stocks

Long and short

Supported

  • Market orders
  • Limit orders
  • Stop orders
  • Stop-limit orders
  • Trailing stops
  • Short selling
  • Day
  • Good till canceled
  • Immediate or cancel
  • Fill or kill
  • At the open
  • At the close
  • Bracket orders
  • OCO orders
  • OTO orders
  • Fractional quantity

Not supported

  • Trailing stop attached

Alpaca crypto

Long only

Supported

  • Market orders
  • Limit orders
  • Stop-limit orders
  • Good till canceled
  • Immediate or cancel
  • Fractional quantity

Not supported

  • Stop orders
  • Trailing stops
  • Short selling
  • Day
  • Fill or kill
  • At the open
  • At the close
  • Bracket orders
  • OCO orders
  • OTO orders
  • Trailing stop attached

For a crypto stop loss, send a stop-limit order as its own exit.

Alpaca stock options

Long and short

Supported

  • Market orders
  • Limit orders
  • Stop orders
  • Stop-limit orders
  • Short selling
  • Day

Not supported

  • Trailing stops
  • Good till canceled
  • Immediate or cancel
  • Fill or kill
  • At the open
  • At the close
  • Bracket orders
  • OCO orders
  • OTO orders
  • Trailing stop attached

Take profit and stop loss cannot be attached to the entry. Send them as separate signals after the entry.

Connect Alpaca by signing in

  1. Choose the broker and confirm

    Go to Brokers and choose Alpaca. Tick the box confirming you are authorized to trade the account, then click Connect Alpaca.

  2. Sign in on Alpaca's site

    You are sent to Alpaca's website, not a TradersPost page. Log in and authorize TradersPost to read balances, positions and orders, and to place and cancel trades.

  3. Name it and enable your accounts

    You land on the connection page. Name the connection if you like, then enable each account you want TradersPost to trade.

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