_bars = api.get_bars(symbol=_SPY, timeframe=TimeFrame.Day, start=“2022-03-28”)
print(_bars)
File “”, line 1 _bars = api.get_bars(symbol=_SPY, timeframe=TimeFrame.Day, start=“2022-03-28”) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Like I said bra, a coding noob. Lol my bad I’m sure its a simple fix.
No worries. I started teaching myself Python back in November, specifically to develop a trading bot for Alpaca. It’s been a journey!
I think you are getting that error because you need to specify the symbol as a string.
symbol=_SPY
Either specify the string directly in the get_bars call, e.g.
_bars = api.get_bars(symbol= 'SPY', timeframe=TimeFrame.Day, start=“2022-03-28”)
or declare the symbol as a variable first:
_mySymbol = 'SPY' # Whichever ticker you want
_bars = api.get_bars(symbol=_mySymbol, timeframe=TimeFrame.Day, start=“2022-03-28”)
Bear in mind, if you haven’t already, you will need to include/import some libraries at the top of your code:
import alpaca_trade_api as alpaca
from alpaca_trade_api.rest import TimeFrame
Thank you man. I will log on and try to start this. I am learning for the same reason pretty much. 
Modern style to graph bars
import pandas as pd
import mplfinance as mpf
bars = api.get_bars('AAPL','1T',start='2024-02-13T09:30:00-05:00')
data = {
'timestamp': [bar.t for bar in bars],
'open': [bar.o for bar in bars],
'high': [bar.h for bar in bars],
'low': [bar.l for bar in bars],
'close': [bar.c for bar in bars],
'volume': [bar.v for bar in bars],
}
df = pd.DataFrame(data).set_index('timestamp')
mpf.plot(
df,
type='candle',
# addplot=plots,
figscale=2.0,
figratio=(20,6),
style='charles',
warn_too_much_data=100_000,
)
