Use Case
Stop doing repetitive finance & investment tasks manually. Alpaca Trading lets your AI agent handle them automatically through natural conversation. Trade stocks and crypto via Alpaca API. Use for market data (quotes, bars, news), placing orders (market, limit, stop), checking positions, portfolio management, and account info. Supports both paper and live trading. Use when user asks about stock prices, wants to buy/sell securities, check portfolio, or manage trades. This guide shows practical examples of using Alpaca Trading to automate common finance & investment workflows and save hours every week.
Install Alpaca Trading: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install alpaca
Identify the repetitive finance & investment tasks you want to automate
Describe the task to your AI in plain English
Alpaca Trading will execute the task and return results directly in the chat
Chain multiple tasks: ask your AI to run a sequence of operations
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Alpaca Trading
Automate my finance & investment tasks using Alpaca Trading
What repetitive tasks can Alpaca Trading handle for me?
Set up a workflow that runs Alpaca Trading every morning
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install alpacaOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install alpacaβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/alpaca/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.