September 2020 Summaries

We are committed to becoming an infrastructure for innovating applications that utilize our unique commission-free US stock trading API. We have launched One-Cancels-Other (OCO) orders from the TradingView dashboard, allowing users to place OCO Orders directly on this platform. Tradetron, a no-code algorithmic trading platform, also allows users to build and deploy strategies without coding, with the option to integrate with our Alpaca trading account. Conditional orders carry increased risk due to reliance on trigger processing and external systems, and users should monitor these orders for reasonability. Our commission-free trading model means that there are no commission charges for self-directed individual cash brokerage accounts trading US listed securities through an API.

Trailing stop orders allow you to continuously update the stop price threshold based on stock price movement, eliminating the need to monitor prices and send replace requests. You can set a dollar or percentage value away from the highest water mark as the trail to the latest stock price. This feature is available via Alpaca Trading API and provides an advanced way to manage risk in your trades. The stop price of a trailing stop order gets updated automatically, reducing the need for manual intervention.