Alpaca

Tools

• Add Asset to Watchlist

  Adds a symbol to an existing watchlist in the authenticated account. Use when you need to track a new security in an existing watchlist. This action appends the specified symbol to the end of the watchlist's asset list. The watchlist_id can

• Add Asset to Watchlist by Name

  Add an asset to a watchlist by name. Use when you need to add a symbol to a specific watchlist identified by its name. If a watchlist with the specified name does not exist, it will be created automatically and the symbol will be added to i

• Create Watchlist

  Creates a new watchlist for the authenticated account. Use this action when you need to: - Create a new watchlist to track specific securities - Set up initial symbols for a watchlist at creation time - Organize tracked symbols under a name

• Create Watchlist

  Create a new watchlist for the authenticated account. Use when you need to create a watchlist to track specific securities. The name must contain only alphanumeric characters (no spaces or special characters).

• Delete All Open Positions

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  Liquidates all open positions by closing them at market price. This action is irreversible and will permanently close all positions in the account. Use when you need to quickly exit all positions, such as before closing an account or in eme

• Delete All Orders for Account

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  Attempts to cancel all open orders for a specified trading account. A response will be provided for each order that is attempted to be cancelled. This action is irreversible for individual orders that are successfully cancelled.

• Delete Unsubscribe Account

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  Delete a rebalancing subscription to unsubscribe an account. This action permanently removes the specified subscription. Use when you need to unsubscribe an account from rebalancing services. This action is irreversible once executed. Note:

• Delete Watchlist By ID

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  Delete a watchlist by its unique identifier. Use when you need to remove an entire watchlist that is no longer needed. This action is irreversible once executed — the watchlist and all its contents cannot be recovered. Note: If the watchlis

• Get Account

  Retrieves account information for the authenticated Alpaca account. Use this action when you need to check account status, available buying power, cash balance, equity, margin information, day trade count, or other account details. This is

• Get Account Activities

  Retrieves account activities for the authenticated Alpaca account. Use this action when you need to retrieve transaction history, dividend payments, interest payments, fees, transfers, or other account-related activities. Supports filtering

• Get Account Activities By Activity Type

  Retrieves account activities of a specific type for the authenticated Alpaca account. Use when you need to filter account activities by a specific type such as trade fills, dividends, interest payments, fees, or transfers. Supports date ran

• Get Account Activities V2

  Retrieves account activities of one type for the authenticated Alpaca account using the v2 API. Use this action when you need to retrieve transaction history, dividend payments, interest payments, fees, transfers, or order fill activities.

• Get Account Configurations

  Retrieves the current trading account configuration settings for the authenticated Alpaca account. Use this action when you need to check the current trading account settings such as day-trading margin call (DTMC) checks, fractional trading

• Get Account Portfolio History

  Retrieves the portfolio history statistics for a trading account. Portfolio history provides a time series of equity values, profit/loss metrics, and optionally cashflow data over a specified time period. Use when you need to analyze accoun

• Get Account Portfolio History

  Retrieves the portfolio history statistics for an Alpaca trading account. Portfolio history provides a time series of equity values, profit/loss metrics, and other performance data over a specified time period. Use when you need to analyze

• Get All Account Positions

  Bulk fetches all open positions for the authenticated account. Use when you need to retrieve all current positions, monitor overall portfolio holdings, or check unrealized P&L across the entire account. This action does not require an accou

• Get All Open Positions

  Retrieves all open positions for the authenticated Alpaca trading account. Use this action when you need to retrieve all current positions, monitor portfolio holdings, or check unrealized P&L across the entire account. This action does not

• Get All Orders

  Retrieves all orders for an account based on specified filter criteria. Returns a list of orders with their current status, filled quantity, prices, and any nested legs for complex orders. Use when you need to query historical or current or

• Get Calendar

  Retrieves market calendar information for trading days from the Alpaca Trading API. Use this action when you need to: - Get market open and close times for specific dates - Check trading session times - Verify market operating hours for dat

• Get Clock

  Retrieves the current market clock information from the Alpaca Trading API. Use this action when you need to: - Check if the market is currently open - Determine when the next market open or close will occur - Plan trading activities based

• Get Crypto Bars for Multiple Symbols

  Retrieves OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bars for multiple crypto symbols. Use this action when you need to: - Get historical price data for multiple crypto symbols - Analyze price trends over a specific timeframe - Fetch aggregated

• Get Crypto Latest Orderbooks

  Retrieves the latest bid and ask orderbook data for specified crypto symbols. Use when you need real-time orderbook data for cryptocurrency trading, such as checking current market depth before placing orders or analyzing liquidity. Returns

• Get Crypto Latest Quotes

  Retrieves the latest bid and ask prices for specified crypto symbols at a specific location. Use when you need real-time quote data for cryptocurrency trading, such as checking current market prices before placing orders or monitoring price

• Get Crypto Perp Latest Bars

  Retrieves the latest OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bars for crypto perpetual futures symbols. Use this action when you need real-time or near real-time price data for crypto perpetual futures contracts for a specific location (e.g.

• Get Crypto Perp Latest Orderbooks

  Retrieves the latest bid and ask orderbook data for specified crypto perpetual futures symbols. Use when you need real-time orderbook data for crypto perpetual futures trading, such as checking current market depth before placing orders or

• Get Crypto Perp Latest Pricing

  Retrieves the latest pricing data for specified crypto perpetual futures symbols. Use when you need real-time pricing data for crypto perpetual futures trading, such as checking current market prices, index prices, mark prices, funding rate

• Get Crypto Perp Latest Quotes

  Retrieves the latest bid and ask prices for specified crypto perpetual futures symbols for a specific location. Use when you need real-time quote data for crypto perpetual futures trading, such as checking current market prices before placi

• Get Crypto Perp Latest Trades

  Retrieves the latest trade data for specified crypto perpetual futures symbols. Use when you need real-time trade data for crypto perpetual futures trading, such as monitoring recent trades, analyzing price movements, or tracking trading vo

• Get Crypto Perps Global Latest Bars

  Retrieves the latest OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bars for crypto perpetual futures symbols. Use this action when you need real-time or near real-time price data for crypto perpetual futures contracts. Returns the most recent bar

• Get Crypto Perps Global Latest Pricing

  Returns the latest pricing data for crypto perpetual futures symbols. Use this action when you need to retrieve current market data for crypto perpetual futures contracts including mark price, index price, open interest, and funding rate.

• Get Crypto Perps Global Latest Quotes

  Retrieves the latest bid and ask prices for specified crypto perpetual futures symbols. Use when you need real-time quote data for crypto perpetual futures trading, such as checking current market prices before placing orders or monitoring

• Get Crypto Perps Global Latest Trades

  Retrieves the latest trade data for specified crypto perpetual futures symbols. Use when you need real-time trade data for crypto perpetual futures trading, such as monitoring recent trades, analyzing price movements, or tracking trading vo

• Get Crypto Snapshots

  Retrieves snapshots (latest trade, latest quote, minute bar, daily bar, and previous daily bar) for multiple cryptocurrency symbols in a specific location. Use this action when you need comprehensive real-time market data for crypto symbols

• Get Crypto US Historical Quotes

  Retrieves historical quote data (bid/ask prices) for specified crypto symbols on US exchanges. Returns quotes sorted by symbol first, then by timestamp. Use when you need: - Historical bid/ask price data for cryptocurrency pairs - Analyzing

• Get Crypto US Latest Bars

  Retrieves the latest OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bars for US crypto symbols. Use this action when you need real-time or near real-time price data for multiple crypto trading pairs. Returns the most recent bar for each requested s

• Get Crypto US Latest Orderbooks

  Retrieves the latest bid and ask orderbook data for specified crypto symbols in the US market. Use when you need real-time orderbook data for cryptocurrency trading in the US market, such as checking current market depth before placing orde

• Get Crypto US Latest Quotes

  Retrieves the latest bid and ask prices for specified crypto symbols in the US location. Use when you need real-time quote data for cryptocurrency trading in the US market, such as checking current market prices before placing orders or mon

• Get Crypto US Latest Trades

  Retrieves the latest trade data for specified crypto symbols in the US location. Use when you need real-time trade data for cryptocurrency trading, such as monitoring recent trades, analyzing price movements, or tracking trading volume.

• Get Crypto US Snapshots

  Retrieves snapshots (latest trade, latest quote, minute bar, daily bar, and previous daily bar) for multiple cryptocurrency symbols in the US market location. Use this action when you need comprehensive real-time market data for multiple cr

• Get Crypto US Trades

  Retrieves historical trade data for specified US crypto symbols. Use when you need to: - Get historical trade data for US crypto symbols at once - Analyze trading volume and price movements over time - Build datasets for backtesting or rese

• Get Exchanges

  Retrieves a list of supported stock exchanges with their short codes and full names from the Alpaca Market Data API. Use this action when you need to: - Get the mapping between exchange codes and full names - Understand what exchange codes

• Get Historical Bars for Stock Symbol

  Retrieves historical OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bars for a single stock symbol. Use this action when you need to analyze historical price movements and trading activity for a specific stock ticker over a given timeframe. The bar

• Get Historical Crypto US Bars

  Retrieves historical OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bars for crypto symbols in a specific US location. Use this action when you need to analyze historical price movements and trading activity for cryptocurrency pairs over a given ti

• Get Historical Stock Bars

  Retrieves historical OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bars for a single stock symbol. Use this action when you need to analyze historical price movements and trading activity for a specific stock ticker over a given timeframe. The bar

• Get Latest Bar for Stock Symbol

  Retrieves the latest OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bar for a single stock symbol. Use this action when you need real-time or near real-time price bar data for a specific stock trading symbol. This is useful for dashboards, price mo

• Get Latest Bars For Crypto Symbol

  Retrieves the latest OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bar data for a crypto symbol. Use this action when you need real-time or near real-time price data for a specific cryptocurrency pair. Returns the most recent bar including open, h

• Get Latest Bars for Crypto Symbols

  Retrieves the latest OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bars for multiple crypto symbols. Use this action when you need real-time or near real-time price bar data for multiple cryptocurrency pairs simultaneously. This is useful for dash

• Get Latest Bars for Multiple Stock Symbols

  Retrieves the latest OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bars for multiple stock symbols. Use this action when you need real-time or near real-time price bar data for multiple stock trading symbols simultaneously. This is useful for dash

• Get Stock Bars for Multiple Symbols

  Retrieves OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) bars for multiple stock symbols. Use this action when you need to: - Get historical price data for multiple stock symbols - Analyze price trends over a specific timeframe - Fetch aggregated b

• Get Stock Conditions

  Retrieves the mapping of condition codes to their names from Alpaca Markets API for the specified type (trade or quote conditions) and tape. Use this action when you need to: - Decode condition codes from stock market data - Get the list of

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