Alpaca Trading MCP Server

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Programmatically manage an Alpaca paper or live trading account (view balances, account info, and portfolio status).

• 2

  Place and manage orders (market, limit, stop, stop-limit) and cancel or close positions via MCP tools.

• 3

  Real-time quotes and historical price bars or asset metadata to inform trading decisions or backtesting.

Description

This server implements a Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface to the Alpaca trading platform, providing endpoints and tools to view account info, manage positions, place various order types, and retrieve market quotes and historical bars. It is intended to run locally (or via Smithery) and connect MCP-capable clients (e.g., Claude Desktop) to Alpaca's paper or live trading APIs. The server simplifies automation, testing, and agent-driven trading workflows by wrapping Alpaca functionality in standardized MCP resources and tools.