Alpaca Trading MCP Connector for Claude

Connect your Alpaca Markets account to your AI agent to automate trading strategies and monitor market movements through natural language.

What you can do

• Order Execution — Place market, limit, or stop orders for stocks and crypto assets using create_order and manage them with delete_all_orders.
• Market Intelligence — Retrieve historical bars, latest quotes, and trade data for stocks and crypto using tools like get_stocks_bars and get_latest_stocks_quotes.
• Order Tracking — Query your order history with advanced filters like status, symbols, and timeframes via get_orders.
• Account Management — Check your broker account details and update configurations such as fractional trading or shorting permissions with update_account_configs.
• Asset Discovery — List available assets and their trading status directly from the Alpaca exchange.

How it works

1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your Alpaca API Key ID and Secret Key
3. Start trading and analyzing markets from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

Your AI acts as a sophisticated trading terminal, capable of executing complex orders and fetching deep market analytics without you ever leaving your workflow.

Who is this for?

• Quant Traders — automate the execution of strategies and fetch historical data for backtesting analysis.
• Retail Investors — check portfolio status and place quick trades using simple conversational commands.
• Developers — integrate financial market data and trading capabilities directly into coding environments.