Alpaca + Backtrader + Live Feed

Alpaca Integration Applications
1

I try paper trading with my own live feed using alpaca-backtrader-api. When I do resample for this data, I received message:

sleep 3 seconds and retrying https://paper-api.alpaca.markets/v2/account 3 more time(s)…

Sometimes it starts normally, but often no at all.

Can somebody provide real practice example for paper trading? Thx!

2

Also it always starts from historical day and execute trades on history. It possible to disable?

store = alpaca_backtrader_api.AlpacaStore(
        key_id=ALPACA_API_KEY,
        secret_key=ALPACA_SECRET_KEY,
        paper=ALPACA_PAPER
    )
    
    
    timezone = pytz.timezone("US/Eastern")
    # print(timezone)
    DataFactory = store.getdata  # or use alpaca_backtrader_api.AlpacaData
    data = DataFactory(
        dataname='SPY',
        tz=timezone,
        timeframe=bt.TimeFrame.Minutes,
        compression=1,
        fromdate=pd.Timestamp('2020-5-1'),
        # todate=datetime.datetime.now(),
        historical=False
        )
3

Hi,
first let’s upgrade the alpaca-backtrader-api version:
pip install -U alpaca-backtrader-api

then, you have example code here:

make sure you change the API keys to your own.

if that’s still does not work - let me know

4

All my issues with alpaca-backtrader-api on github

5

Would be cool to see intraday examples.