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alpaca-trading-mcp-server

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Trade stocks and crypto with AI safely.

Finance & Accounting#mcp#api integration#options#trading#market data#alpaca#paper trading
AuthorAradotso
Version1.0.0
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System Documentation

What problem does it solve?

It removes the friction of turning trading ideas and market questions into concrete API actions, so you can analyze assets and place stock, crypto, and options trades through a single natural-language interface.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Natural-language trading & strategy execution: Convert requests like “set up a trading bot” into executable trade actions (paper or live) using Alpaca’s official MCP server.
  • Market data for analysis: Retrieve real-time and historical stock, crypto, and options data (quotes, bars, order books, option chains, Greeks) to support decision-making.
  • Risk-aware operations: Support paper trading first, enable toolset filtering via environment variables, and provide guidance for switching safely to live trading.

Quick Start

Configure your MCP client to run alpaca-mcp-server with ALPACA_API_KEY and ALPACA_SECRET_KEY (set ALPACA_PAPER_TRADE=true for testing) and then ask for an action like, “What is the current price of NVDA and place a paper market buy for 10 shares.”

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: alpaca-trading-mcp-server
Download link: https://github.com/Aradotso/mcp-skills/archive/main.zip#alpaca-trading-mcp-server

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