The README guidelines below contains instructions for programmatically requesting and receiving data from the microservice.
Requesting Data
To request data from the Alpaca Microservice, you can use the provided Python functions in the alpaca_trading.py file.
from alpaca_trading import place_order
api_key = ""
secret_key = ""
symbol = "AAPL" # example stock
quantity = 10 # example quantity
side = "buy" # 'buy' or 'sell' based on your trade type
result = place_order(api_key, secret_key, symbol, quantity, side)
print("Response:")
print(result)
Receiving Data
The Alpaca Microservice provides functions to retrieve open positions, open orders, and more alpaca_trading.py file.
from alpaca_trading import get_account_positions
api_key = ""
secret_key = ""
result = get_account_positions(api_key, secret_key)
print("Account Positions:")
print(result)