# Joining Slack and API Question

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/joining-slack-and-api-question/10442>\
**Category:** Getting Started with Alpaca\
**Created:** [August 26, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/joining-slack-and-api-question/10442 "2022-08-26T12:27:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@kirill](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/kirill)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/joining-slack-and-api-question/10442/1 "2022-08-26T12:27:42Z")

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Firstly, I have always had issues joining Alpaca Slack because I don’t have an @alpaca-markets email address.

Secondly, I was reading about order flow here: [Order flow trading - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_flow_trading)  
Does the API provide data that could be used for an order-flow based strategy?

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**Author:** ![livefire](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/livefire/32/4457_2.png) [@livefire](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/livefire)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/joining-slack-and-api-question/10442/2 "2022-09-01T19:56:21Z")

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Is there a way to get on the slack channel?