Alpaca MCP Server: Trade and Get Market Data from Claude and Cursor

• Shows balance, buying power and account status

  Returns your Alpaca account snapshot: cash, equity, margin and whether trading is blocked.

  Try: “What's my buying power on Alpaca?”

  Network · get_account_info

• Shows account trading settings

  Reads account settings such as margin rules, pattern day trader checks and trade confirmations.

  Try: “Show my Alpaca account trading restrictions.”

  Network · get_account_config

• Changes account trading settings

  Sends a change to your account configuration, for example the margin or day-trade check settings.

  Try: “Turn off fractional trading on my account.”

  Write · update_account_config

• Charts account value over time

  Returns equity and profit and loss over a period you choose.

  Try: “Show my portfolio value for the last month.”

  Network · get_portfolio_history

• Lists fills, dividends and transfers

  Lists account activity such as order fills, dividends and transfers across all types.

  Try: “List my account activity this week.”

  Network · get_account_activities

• Lists one kind of account activity

  Same as account activities but limited to one activity type, such as dividends.

  Try: “Show all dividends I received this year.”

  Network · get_account_activities_by_type

• Lists your orders with filters

  Returns orders filtered by status, symbol, side or date range.

  Try: “Show my open orders from this week.”

  Network · get_orders

• Looks up one order

  Fetches a single order by the ID Alpaca assigned.

  Try: “What happened to order abc123?”

  Network · get_order_by_id

• Looks up an order by your own ID

  Fetches an order using the client order ID that was set when it was placed.

  Try: “Find the order with client ID my-order-7.”

  Network · get_order_by_client_id

• Changes an open order

  Replaces an open order with new quantity, price or time-in-force values.

  Try: “Change my open TSLA limit order price to $310.”

  Write · replace_order_by_id

• Cancels one open order

  Cancels a specific open order.

  Try: “Cancel order abc123.”

  Delete · cancel_order_by_id

• Cancels every open order

  Cancels all open orders on the account in one call.

  Try: “Cancel all my open orders.”

  Delete · cancel_all_orders

• Buys or sells stocks and ETFs

  Submits a stock or ETF order. Market, limit, stop, stop-limit, trailing-stop and bracket orders are supported. This is marked as a destructive action by the server.

  Try: “Buy 5 shares of AAPL at market.”

  Write · place_stock_order

• Buys or sells crypto

  Submits a crypto order by quantity or dollar amount, as market, limit or stop-limit.

  Try: “Buy 0.01 ETH/USD at market.”

  Write · place_crypto_order

• Buys or sells options

  Submits a single-leg or multi-leg options order, such as a spread.

  Try: “Place a bull call spread on AAPL with 190 and 200 strikes.”

  Write · place_option_order

• Lists everything you hold

  Returns every open position with quantity, cost and current value.

  Try: “Show my current positions.”

  Network · get_all_positions

• Shows one position

  Returns details for the position in a single symbol.

  Try: “How is my NVDA position doing?”

  Network · get_open_position

• Sells out of one position

  Closes a position in one symbol, fully or by a quantity or percentage you give.

  Try: “Close 10% of my NVDA position.”

  Delete · close_position

• Sells your whole portfolio

  Liquidates all open positions at once.

  Try: “Liquidate my entire portfolio.”

  Delete · close_all_positions

• Exercises an option you hold

  Sends an exercise request for an option contract in your account.

  Try: “Exercise my NVDA call contract.”

  Write · exercise_options_position

• Tells Alpaca not to exercise an option

  Submits a do-not-exercise instruction for a held option contract.

  Try: “Do not exercise my AAPL call that expires today.”

  Write · do_not_exercise_options_position

• Creates a watchlist

  Creates a named watchlist with the symbols you list.

  Try: “Create a watchlist called Tech Stocks with AAPL, MSFT and NVDA.”

  Write · create_watchlist

• Lists your watchlists

  Returns all your trading watchlists.

  Try: “List my watchlists.”

  Network · get_watchlists

• Shows one watchlist

  Returns a watchlist and its assets by ID.

  Try: “What is in my Dividend Picks watchlist?”

  Network · get_watchlist_by_id

• Renames or edits a watchlist

  Updates the name or the symbol list of a watchlist.

  Try: “Update my Tech Stocks watchlist to include TSLA.”

  Write · update_watchlist_by_id

• Deletes a watchlist

  Removes a watchlist by ID.

  Try: “Delete my Growth Portfolio watchlist.”

  Delete · delete_watchlist_by_id

• Adds a symbol to a watchlist

  Adds one asset to an existing watchlist.

  Try: “Add AMZN to my Tech Stocks watchlist.”

  Write · add_asset_to_watchlist_by_id

• Removes a symbol from a watchlist

  Takes one asset out of a watchlist.

  Try: “Remove META from my Growth Portfolio watchlist.”

  Delete · remove_asset_from_watchlist_by_id

• Searches tradable assets

  Lists assets, filtered by status, class or exchange.

  Try: “List active NASDAQ equities that are tradable.”

  Network · get_all_assets

• Shows one asset's details

  Returns whether an asset is tradable, shortable or fractionable, and its exchange.

  Try: “Is AAPL fractionable on Alpaca?”

  Network · get_asset

• Finds option contracts

  Lists option contracts for one or more underlying symbols, filtered by expiry, strike and type.

  Try: “Show AAPL option contracts expiring next month.”

  Network · get_option_contracts

• Shows one option contract

  Returns one option contract by symbol or ID.

  Try: “Show details for AAPL250613C00200000.”

  Network · get_option_contract

• Shows market days and hours

  Returns the market calendar for a date range.

  Try: “Show the market calendar for next week.”

  Network · get_calendar

• Says if the market is open

  Returns whether the market is open now and when it next opens or closes.

  Try: “Is the US market open right now?”

  Network · get_clock

• Lists corporate action announcements

  Returns announcements such as dividends, splits and mergers, with filters.

  Try: “Show AAPL dividends and splits from the last 3 months.”

  Network · get_corporate_action_announcements

• Shows one corporate action

  Returns a single corporate action announcement by ID.

  Try: “Show corporate action announcement abc123.”

  Network · get_corporate_action_announcement

• Gets historical stock price bars

  Returns open, high, low, close and volume bars for stocks over a timeframe you choose.

  Try: “Show 5-minute bars for TSLA from last Tuesday to Friday.”

  Network · get_stock_bars

• Gets historical stock bid and ask quotes

  Returns past bid and ask quotes for stock symbols.

  Try: “Show recent quotes for MSFT.”

  Network · get_stock_quotes

• Gets historical stock trades

  Returns past individual trades for stock symbols.

  Try: “Retrieve the last 100 trades for AMD.”

  Network · get_stock_trades

• Gets the newest stock minute bar

  Returns the most recent minute bar per symbol.

  Try: “Get the latest bar for GOOGL.”

  Network · get_stock_latest_bar

• Gets the newest stock quote

  Returns the latest bid and ask for symbols.

  Try: “Show the most recent quote for MSFT.”

  Network · get_stock_latest_quote

• Gets the newest stock trade

  Returns the last trade price and size per symbol.

  Try: “What was the latest trade price for NVDA?”

  Network · get_stock_latest_trade

• Gets a stock overview in one call

  Combines latest quote, trade, minute bar, daily bar and previous daily bar per symbol.

  Try: “Give me a market snapshot for AAPL.”

  Network · get_stock_snapshot

• Lists the busiest stocks

  Returns the most active stocks by volume or trade count.

  Try: “Which stocks are most active today?”

  Network · get_most_active_stocks

• Lists top gainers and losers

  Returns the biggest movers of the day.

  Try: “Who are today's top market gainers and losers?”

  Network · get_market_movers

• Gets historical crypto price bars

  Returns OHLCV bars for crypto pairs over a timeframe.

  Try: “Show hourly BTC/USD bars for the last day.”

  Network · get_crypto_bars

• Gets historical crypto quotes

  Returns past bid and ask quotes for crypto pairs.

  Try: “Show recent ETH/USD quotes.”

  Network · get_crypto_quotes

• Gets historical crypto trades

  Returns past trades for crypto pairs.

  Try: “Show the last trades for BTC/USD.”

  Network · get_crypto_trades

• Gets the newest crypto minute bar

  Returns the latest minute bar per crypto pair.

  Try: “Get the latest ETH/USD bar.”

  Network · get_crypto_latest_bar

• Gets the newest crypto quote

  Returns the latest bid and ask per crypto pair.

  Try: “What is the BTC/USD quote now?”

  Network · get_crypto_latest_quote

• Gets the newest crypto trade

  Returns the last trade per crypto pair.

  Try: “What was the last BTC/USD trade?”

  Network · get_crypto_latest_trade

• Gets a crypto overview in one call

  Combines latest quote, trade and bars per crypto pair.

  Try: “Snapshot of BTC/USD and ETH/USD.”

  Network · get_crypto_snapshot

• Shows the crypto order book

  Returns the latest order book for crypto pairs.

  Try: “Show the BTC/USD order book.”

  Network · get_crypto_latest_orderbook

• Gets historical option price bars

  Returns OHLCV bars for option contracts.

  Try: “Show daily bars for AAPL250613C00200000.”

  Network · get_option_bars

• Gets historical option trades

  Returns past trades for option contracts.

  Try: “Show recent trades for SPY250627P00400000.”

  Network · get_option_trades

• Gets the newest option trade

  Returns the last trade for option contracts.

  Try: “What was the last trade on that AAPL call?”

  Network · get_option_latest_trade

• Gets the newest option quote

  Returns the latest bid, ask and exchange for option contracts.

  Try: “Get the latest quote for AAPL250613C00200000.”

  Network · get_option_latest_quote

• Gets an option overview with Greeks

  Returns latest quote and trade plus Greeks and implied volatility.

  Try: “What are the Greeks for TSLA250620P00500000?”

  Network · get_option_snapshot

• Shows the option chain for a stock

  Returns the option chain for an underlying symbol.

  Try: “Show the SPY option chain near the current price.”

  Network · get_option_chain

• Decodes option exchange codes

  Maps exchange codes in option data to exchange names.

  Try: “What exchange is code C for options?”

  Network · get_option_exchange_codes

• Gets corporate actions from market data

  Returns corporate actions such as splits and dividends from the market data API.

  Try: “Show corporate actions for SPY in the past year.”

  Network · get_corporate_actions

• Gets news for stocks and crypto

  Returns news articles filtered by symbol and date range.

  Try: “Show news about NVDA from this week.”

  Network · get_news

• Gets bond and treasury quotes

  Returns the latest quotes for fixed income securities by ISIN.

  Try: “Get the latest quote for this treasury ISIN.”

  Network · get_fixed_income_latest_quotes

• Lists short-sale locate requests

  Lists locate requests filtered by status, symbol or date. Not available on paper trading.

  Try: “List my locate requests this week.”

  Network · get_locates

• Requests a short-sale locate

  Submits a request to locate shares to borrow for a short sale.

  Try: “Request a locate for 100 shares of GME.”

  Write · create_locate

• Shows one locate request

  Returns one locate request by ID.

  Try: “Show locate request abc123.”

  Network · get_locate

• Shows locate availability and price

  Returns availability and pricing for borrowing shares of symbols.

  Try: “How much does it cost to locate GME shares?”

  Network · get_locate_quotes

• Searches Alpaca's guides

  Searches Alpaca documentation pages for product and account questions, using Alpaca's hosted docs service.

  Try: “How does Alpaca handle pattern day trader rules?”

  Network · search_alpaca_docs

• Opens one Alpaca doc page

  Fetches a documentation page by its page ID.

  Try: “Open that Alpaca docs page.”

  Network · fetch_alpaca_doc

• Searches Alpaca's API reference

  Looks up API endpoints by topic, path, parameter or schema term.

  Try: “Which Alpaca endpoint lists positions?”

  Network · search_alpaca_api_specs

• Lists API endpoints for one spec

  Lists the endpoints of one allowed Alpaca API spec.

  Try: “List the Trading API endpoints.”

  Network · list_alpaca_api_endpoints

• Shows docs for one API endpoint

  Fetches reference docs for an exact method and path.

  Try: “Show docs for GET /v2/positions.”

  Network · get_alpaca_endpoint_docs

Watch out for

• It can place real orders once you go live

  The order tools (place_stock_order, place_crypto_order, place_option_order) send orders. They use paper money unless ALPACA_PAPER_TRADE is set to false (the server code defaults it to true), so start there. Our advice: do not give an unattended or scheduled agent live keys. Order, cancel and close calls act on a real brokerage account. github.com

• It can cancel orders and sell your whole portfolio

  cancel_all_orders and close_all_positions act on everything in the account at once. Our advice: keep the trading toolset off unless you need it. github.com

• It can change account settings and exercise options

  update_account_config, exercise_options_position and do_not_exercise_options_position change the account itself. Leave out the account and trading toolsets to remove them. github.com

• Tool results are wrapped as untrusted data

  The server wraps every result in a note telling the model to treat it as data, with a stronger warning for news and docs text. This lowers prompt-injection risk but is not a guarantee. github.com

• The five docs tools call Alpaca's hosted docs service

  They are always on, whichever toolsets you choose, and send your search text to Alpaca's documentation service. github.com

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