Feature suggestion: support placing order via websocket or other protocols

Now one needs to place an order through the POST method. But this can be very slow because a new http connection has to be established from scratch. Is it possible that alpaca can support placing orders though websocket or other binary protocols that keeps the connection so that the latency can be much smaller.
Though I also hope that there can be binary protocols for real-time market data, I dare not expect it, because I know this requires a lot of work.

Hope the opinion can be considered.

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I think support ordering with websocket is not difficult when alpaca has built the ws system for market data. It can improve a lot regarding the latency.
Many cryptocurrency exchanges support these feature as well.

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