Is there a way I can connect to someone as it seems user still not active yet
and I am trying to contact Support Team regarding this, but with no response from them
@Believerguy Did you sign up for a paper account or a live account? Paper accounts are active immediately. If you are asking about a live account not being active yet, those can sometimes take awhile. Ensure you respond to any requests for additional documentation. It can cause delays if the Accounts Team doesn’t hear back from you.
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Thanks for responding
I got confirmation today. It works now and its active
I have very sucessfully gained access to Alpaca stock prices, and have developed an algorithm that tells me when to buy or sell. I now need to automate this process of trading using the Alpaca API. HOWEVER…try as I may, following all the instructions on the internet, I am not able to get Alpaca to listen to me. The call that works for me to get the prices is as follows.
Set req = New MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP60
key_id = “…IRUAWKLJS…”
key_header_name = “APCA-API-KEY-ID”
secret_key = “…q0AtE8ACo7iFcz7aJFE4W…”
secret_header_name = “APCA-API-SECRET-KEY”
liveURL = “https://data.alpaca.markets”
req.Open “GET”, liveURL & “/v2/stocks/” & StockSymbol & “/trades/latest”, False
req.setRequestHeader key_header_name, key_id
req.setRequestHeader secret_header_name, secret_key
req.Send
Response = req.responseText
I am able to parse “Response” to get the date/time/price of the “StockSymbol”
Can sombody please give me the proper contents of the “req.Open” line to buy or sell the stock?