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react

Realtime trading data boilerplate

Overview

The Alpaca API Wrapper is an innovative Django-based project designed for those interested in stock market analysis, backtesting, and trading automation. Built to streamline the creation of trading bots, research notebooks, and data pipelines, this wrapper leverages the Alpaca API to offer real-time market data. With its Dockerized full-stack environment, users can hit the ground running, whether they're seasoned developers or just starting out.

Thanks to its robust architecture, the Alpaca API Wrapper provides a suite of features that make it a go-to tool for developing financial applications. It's designed not only for live trading but also for extensive research and analysis, making it versatile for various trading strategies and market examinations.

Features

  • Public Demo: Experience the project in two modes—Anonymous (read-only, rate limited) and Registered (full real-time capabilities) to suit different user needs.
  • Watchlists: Users can create, manage, and customize watchlists to prioritize their market focus, adding and removing assets based on their current strategies.
  • Historical Data: The system automatically fetches and caches historical OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) data for assets in the user's watchlists.
  • Real-Time Data: Enjoy real-time market feed updates for assets added to watchlists, ensuring users have the latest information at their fingertips.
  • WebSocket Service: Leverages a dedicated Django management tool for efficient real-time data streaming, enhancing user interaction and experience.
  • Dockerized Environment: The entire application can be easily deployed using Docker, simplifying the setup process and ensuring consistent environments across development and production.
  • Easy Integration: Designed for scalability and extensibility, the wrapper allows developers to build upon it, adapting it to various financial modeling and trading scenarios.
django
Django

Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. It follows the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern, providing an extensive set of built-in tools and conventions to streamline the creation of robust and scalable web applications.

react
React

React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components

docker
Docker

A website that uses Docker for containerization to streamline development, testing, and deployment workflows. This includes features such as containerization of dependencies, automated builds and deployments, and container orchestration to ensure scalability and availability.