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Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents. Execute stocks and crypto trades with real-time market data access

Alpaca Trading gives your AI agent direct, programmatic access to real-time stock, crypto, and brokerage data. It lets you execute complex trades—placing market, limit, or stop orders—and manage account details without leaving your chat window. Use it to pull historical bars for backtesting, monitor live quotes, or check every order's status instantly.

Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP is compatible with Claude Claude
Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP is compatible with ChatGPT ChatGPT
Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP is compatible with Cursor Cursor
Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP is compatible with Gemini Gemini
Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP is compatible with Windsurf Windsurf
Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP is compatible with VS Code VS Code
Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP is compatible with JetBrains JetBrains
Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP is compatible with Vercel Vercel
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Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access

Execute and Manage Trades

Place new trading orders (market, limit, or stop) and clear all outstanding open orders with a single prompt.

Retrieve Real-Time Market Data

Get the latest quotes, current trades, and historical bars for both stocks and cryptocurrencies.

Monitor Order History

Query all your past and active orders using filters like status or symbols to track performance.

Manage Account Configuration

Check your current brokerage account details and update settings, such as shorting permissions or fractional trading options.

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What AI agents can do with Alpaca Trading: 14 Tools for Financial Market Automation

Use these tools to create accounts, place orders, get the latest quotes, retrieve historical bars, and manage all aspects of stock and crypto trading through your AI agent.

Make your AI actually useful.

Add this MCP to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and your AI stops guessing. It gets real tools to look things up, take action, and handle the stuff you keep doing by hand.

Start using Alpaca Trading MCP

Create Broker Account

Initiates the process to set up a brand new brokerage account with Alpaca Markets.

Create Order

Places a specific trading order for stocks or crypto assets, defining the type and...

Delete All Orders

Cancels every single open order associated with your current account ID.

Get Assets

Lists all assets that are currently available and tradable on the Alpaca exchange...

Get Broker Account

Retrieves specific details about your brokerage account using its unique identifier.

Get Crypto Bars

Fetches historical price bars and data points specifically for cryptocurrency pairs.

Get Latest Stocks Quotes

Retrieves the most current bid and ask prices for specified stock tickers.

Get Latest Stocks Trades

Gets details on the most recent executed trades that have occurred in specific...

Get Orders

Queries and lists all of your current and past orders, allowing for advanced...

Get Stocks Bars

Retrieves historical price bars (OHLCV data) for specified stock tickers across...

Get Stocks Quotes

Gets historical quote records for stocks, useful for analyzing pricing patterns over...

Get Stocks Trades

Retrieves a log of past executed trades (price and volume) for specific stock tickers.

Issue Token

Generates secure OAuth2 tokens necessary for automated machine-to-machine authentication.

Update Account Configs

Modifies various account settings, such as enabling or disabling fractional trading...

Security and governance baked right in.

Pick your AI client below to get set up. Just create a Vinkius account, subscribe, and you're instantly up and running. We handle the entire backend infrastructure, delivering out-of-the-box support for HTTPS Streamable, SSE, and OAuth2—zero messy routing required.

Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP is compatible with Claude

Claude AI

1

Open Claude Settings

Go to claude.ai, click your profile icon, then navigate to Customize → Connectors.

2

Add Custom Connector

Click the "+" button and select Add custom connector. Paste your Vinkius endpoint URL:

https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. For OAuth-protected servers, expand Advanced settings to add credentials.

3

Start a conversation

Open a new chat. The Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

Choose How to Get Started

Build a custom MCP for your own tools, or connect a ready-made integration from our catalog.

Build Your Own

Turn any API into an MCP. Import a spec, define Agent Skills, or deploy with MCPFusion.

  • Import from OpenAPI, Swagger, or YAML specs
  • Create Agent Skills with progressive disclosure
  • Deploy to edge with MCPFusion framework
  • Built in DLP, auth, and compliance on each call
  • Real time usage dashboard and cost metering
  • Publish to catalog or keep private
Start building

Make Your AI Do More

Start with Alpaca Trading, then connect any of our 5,200+ other servers whenever your AI needs more. One click, no limits.

  • Use this MCP plus 5,200+ others, all in one place
  • Add new capabilities to your AI anytime you want
  • Connections are secured and governed automatically
  • Track usage and costs across all your servers
  • Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more
  • New servers added to the catalog weekly

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Zero-Trust Proxy

No stored credentials

DLP Enforced

Policy on each call

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Token Compression

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Alpaca Trading: Automating Stock Order Execution with AI Agents

Today, placing even a simple trade requires multiple steps. You log into the brokerage site, search for the ticker, select order type (market or limit), input shares, and hit 'submit.' If you’re building an application, that means writing complex API calls, handling authentication tokens, and managing error states—all before you even get to the data.

With this MCP, the process collapses. You just tell your agent what you want to do: 'Sell 50 shares of MSFT at market price.' The system handles the order creation, validation, and submission. What you get is instant confirmation that the action was taken.

Alpaca Trading: Retrieving Crypto Market Intelligence using AI Agents

Getting market intelligence used to mean toggling between different data feeds. You'd check a quote service for the current price, then switch to a charting platform to pull historical bars, and finally open a separate sheet to calculate performance metrics—a time-consuming mess of copy/pasting.

Now, your agent pulls everything together. Ask it for the latest quotes on BTC/USD and then request the last 90 days of historical data. It delivers both sets of information immediately, giving you clean, actionable intelligence in one go.

What Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP does for your AI

Connect Alpaca Trading to your AI agent and automate everything from trade execution to deep market analysis. This MCP lets you treat your AI client like a sophisticated trading terminal capable of interacting with real brokerage accounts. Instead of manually logging into a dashboard, asking questions or running scripts in natural language sends commands directly to the exchange.

Need to know if shorting is allowed? Use one command. Need to place an order for 10 shares when the price hits $50? That’s another. The system handles the complexity behind the scenes. When you subscribe, you connect your specific Alpaca API keys and instantly get access to this entire suite of financial tools through Vinkius' catalog.

This means whether you're a retail investor checking portfolio status or a developer integrating live market data into an application, your agent acts as the central command post. You can retrieve historical quotes, check current asset availability, and manage account configurations—all conversational actions that used to require multiple logins and complex API calls.

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Frequently asked questions about Alpaca Trading MCP for AI Agents MCP

How do I use the Alpaca Trading MCP to place a trade? +

You simply tell your AI agent what you want to buy or sell, and how many shares. You don't need to worry about order types or syntax; the agent translates your natural language command into an executable trading instruction.

Can this MCP help me analyze crypto data? +

Yes, it handles crypto just as well as stocks. You can retrieve historical price bars and get the latest quotes for major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum, making deep market analysis possible.

Is Alpaca Trading MCP safe to use for live trades? +

The MCP connects directly to your brokerage account using secure API keys. It ensures that every order you place is tracked and executed according to the rules of your connected Alpaca account.

What if I need historical data for backtesting? Does Alpaca Trading support it? +

Absolutely. You can pull specific historical records, such as daily or hourly price bars, for any stock or crypto pair. This allows you to test trading strategies against real past market conditions.

Does the MCP help me manage my account settings? +

Yes. If you need to change permissions, like enabling fractional shares or adjusting shorting limits, your agent can interact with your account configuration using simple commands.