# Alpaca Trading

> Use this tool when you need to automate stock and options trading, manage portfolios, or analyze financial markets through a programmable interface. It provides real-time account monitoring, order management, and market data retrieval, solving problems related to algorithmic trading, portfolio automation, and financial analysis. With support for paper and live trading environments, it offers a secure and reliable way to integrate brokerage account functionality into AI-powered workflows.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/alpacahq-trading  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/alpacahq-trading

## Description

This MCP server provides complete Alpaca trading platform integration, enabling AI assistants to manage stock and options trading accounts through paper and live trading environments. Built using Python with the alpaca-py SDK and FastMCP framework, it offers account monitoring with real-time balance and position tracking, comprehensive order management supporting market, limit, stop, stop-limit, and trailing stop orders, historical and real-time market data retrieval including quotes, bars, and trade history, position management with partial and full closure capabilities, watchlist creation and management, and market calendar information with corporate action announcements. The implementation includes proper error handling for API rate limits and trading restrictions, environment variable configuration for secure credential management, and support for both stock and options trading workflows, making it valuable for algorithmic trading development, portfolio management automation, and financial analysis workflows that require programmatic access to brokerage account functionality.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.97
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** finance
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/alpacahq-trading)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "alpacahq-trading"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/alpacahq-trading` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/alpacahq-trading/pull`

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