Alpaca + Backtrader + Live Feed

Shlomik · May 19, 2020, 7:40pm

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

then, you have example code here:

alpacahq/alpaca-backtrader-api/blob/master/sample/sma_crossover_strategy.py

import alpaca_backtrader_api
import backtrader as bt
from datetime import datetime

# Your credentials here
ALPACA_API_KEY = "<key_id>"
ALPACA_SECRET_KEY = "<secret_key>"
# change to True if you want to do live paper trading with Alpaca Broker.
#  False will do a back test
ALPACA_PAPER = False


class SmaCross1(bt.Strategy):
    # list of parameters which are configurable for the strategy
    params = dict(
        pfast=10,  # period for the fast moving average
        pslow=30   # period for the slow moving average
    )

    def log(self, txt, dt=None):

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make sure you change the API keys to your own.

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

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