Alan Smith
Community@alan-d-smith · Munich
Alan Smith publishes 14 skills for building Alpaca brokerage integrations: account onboarding, KYC, funding, journals, trading orders, market data, backtesting, and paper trading.
Agent Skills by Alan Smith
Showing 14 vetted skills indexed across 1 GitHub repositories.
alan-d-smithalpaca-broker-sse-events
Consume Alpaca Broker API lifecycle events over Server-Sent Events with replay cursors and idempotent processing.
alan-d-smithalpaca-broker-integration
Guides integration with Alpaca Broker, Trading, and Market Data APIs across languages.
alan-d-smithalpaca-broker-money-precision
Handle money and numeric precision correctly in Alpaca API integrations.
alan-d-smithalpaca-broker-market-data
Pull and stream US stock market data from Alpaca REST and WebSocket APIs.
alan-d-smithalpaca-trading-backtest
Runs reproducible historical trading backtests using the Alpaca CLI and generated workspace scripts.
alan-d-smithalpaca-broker-trading-orders
Place, modify, and track orders for end-user accounts via the Alpaca Broker API.
alan-d-smithalpaca-broker-funding-transfers
Move money between Alpaca brokerage accounts and external banks via ACH, wire, and funding wallet APIs.
alan-d-smithalpaca-broker-reconciliation-idempotency
Design idempotent writes, event dedup, and reconciliation jobs for Alpaca Broker API integrations.
alan-d-smithalpaca-broker-account-onboarding
Create and manage brokerage accounts with KYC via the Alpaca Broker API.
alan-d-smithalpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli
Preview, submit, and manage Alpaca paper-trading orders for equities, options, and crypto via the Alpaca CLI.
alan-d-smithalpaca-trading-paper-trading-mcp
Preview, submit, and manage Alpaca paper-trading orders through MCP tool calls.
alan-d-smithalpaca-trading-paper-trading
Preview, submit, and manage Alpaca paper-trading orders for equities, options, and crypto.
alan-d-smithalpaca-broker-journals
Move cash and securities between Alpaca Broker API accounts via journals.
alan-d-smithalpaca-broker-rate-limits-resilience
Implements retry, backoff, and concurrency patterns for resilient Alpaca API clients.
Frequently Asked Questions About Alan Smith
FAQPage SchemaWhat tasks can I build using Alan Smith's Alpaca skills?▼
You can build full brokerage integrations: account opening with KYC, ACH and wire funding, internal cash and securities journals, order placement with fractional shares, market data retrieval, real-time SSE event consumption, deterministic backtests, and paper trading across equities, options, and crypto.
Who are these Alpaca skills designed for?▼
Developers building on the Alpaca Broker, Trading, or Market Data APIs in any programming language. They target engineers implementing onboarding flows, deposit and withdrawal systems, trading and recurring-invest products, reconciliation jobs, and AI agents executing paper trades via CLI or MCP server.
How do the paper-trading skills work in practice?▼
Three variants exist: a generic version working with any Alpaca SDK or REST call, a CLI version using the Alpaca command-line interface, and an MCP version using the Alpaca Trading API MCP Server. All preview, submit, inspect, and manage paper orders for equities, options, and crypto.
How do the skills handle correctness and reliability?▼
Dedicated skills cover money precision (numbers-as-strings, decimal rounding, fractional-share precision), idempotency keys, event dedup, nightly reconciliation jobs, rate-limit handling with HTTP 429 backoff, exponential retries, bounded concurrency, and pagination for robust Alpaca API clients.
What are the prerequisites for using these skills?▼
You need an Alpaca account with Broker or Trading API credentials. The backtest skill requires the Alpaca CLI plus workspace code, the paper-trading CLI skill requires the Alpaca CLI installed, and the MCP variant requires the Alpaca Trading API MCP Server. Broker API skills are language-agnostic.