Building a simple trading bot using the Alpaca Trading API
- Can only trade a single stock at a time
- The method in this program uses the Doji candle to decide when to buy and sell (sells at 1 percent profit)
- Just simply change the stock ticker symbol to specify which stock to trade
- Requires an account at alpaca.markets and polygon.io (payment required)
- alpaca.markets: trading platform and API
- polygon.io: data stream API that gets real time stock prices and other data
- Requires an account at alpaca.markets and polygon.io (payment required)