AlpaTrade

Trading strategy backtester, paper trader, and research CLI powered by Alpaca Markets.

Screenshots

Web UI — Backtest Streaming

Web UI — News Research

Web UI — Trade History

Web UI — Command Reference

Install

uv tool install alpatrade

Quick Start

# Create .env with your API keys
cat > .env << 'EOF'
ALPACA_PAPER_API_KEY=your_key
ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY=your_secret
MASSIVE_API_KEY=your_massive_key
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:pass@host/dbname
EOF

# Launch the CLI
alpatrade

Features

• Parameterized backtesting — grid search over dip threshold, take profit, hold days, and stop loss to find optimal strategy parameters ranked by Sharpe ratio
• Paper trading — continuous background trading on Alpaca's paper API with daily P&L email reports
• Market research — news, company profiles, financials, technicals, analyst ratings, and valuation comparisons
• Multi-agent system — backtest, validate, paper trade, reconcile, and report via an orchestrated agent pipeline
• Extended hours & intraday exits — pre/after-market trading (4AM-8PM ET) and 5-minute bar TP/SL timing
• Interactive CLI — prompt_toolkit-powered terminal with dropdown auto-completion, streaming log output, and Plotly equity curve charts

Commands

agent:backtest lookback:1m          Run parameterized backtest
agent:paper duration:7d             Paper trade in background
agent:full lookback:1m duration:1m  Full cycle (BT > Validate > PT > Validate)
agent:validate run-id:<uuid>        Validate a backtest or paper trade run
agent:reconcile window:7d           Reconcile DB vs Alpaca positions

news:TSLA                           Company news headlines
price:TSLA                          Quote and technicals
financials:AAPL                     Income and balance sheet
analysts:AAPL                       Ratings and price targets
valuation:AAPL,MSFT                 Side-by-side valuation comparison
movers                              Top market gainers and losers

trades                              Recent trades from DB
runs                                Recent backtest/paper runs
agent:top                           Rank strategies by Avg Annual Return
agent:top strategy:btd              Filter by slug prefix

Strategy Slugs

Each backtest variation gets a human-readable slug that encodes the strategy type, parameters, and lookback period into a compact identifier. Slugs let you compare configurations at a glance and filter results with agent:top or agent:report.

Format

{strategy}-{param1}-{param2}-...-{lookback}

Buy the Dip (btd)

Example: btd-7dp-05sl-1tp-1d-3m = 7% dip, 0.5% stop loss, 1% take profit, 1 day hold, 3-month lookback

Momentum (mom)

Example: mom-20lb-5mt-5d-10tp-5sl-1m

VIX Fear Index (vix)

Example: vix-20t-on

Box-Wedge (bwg)

Example: bwg-2r-5ct

Environment Variables

License

MIT