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Alpaca Options API - Trade options commission-free via API

Alpaca now offers options through their API. Starting today, developers and traders alike can buy, sell, and exercise. The best part? It’s commission-free.

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Oleksandra Vasiukhnyk
Thrilled about the launch of Alpaca Options API! Commission-free trading via an API is a major advantage for developers like me who are looking to integrate more financial services. Quick question: Are there specific limits on the number of trades or types of options available?
Hitoshi Harada
@oleksandra_vasiukhnyk Yes we are super excited with this launch! This release allows any kind of options trading up to level 2 with all rules applied (390 trades per day to stay in non-professional etc). We continue to work on level 3 and multi leg support in coming quarters
Kubilay Özışık
Great news! Would be nice to see some sample projects -preferably using real-time- using your API
Hitoshi Harada
@kubilayozisik Yes please give a try and give us your feedback. We built it to keep it simple and easy to use as API
Radzi Nugraha Purba
the documentation is exceptionally clear and self-explanatory. super easy to use!
Hitoshi Harada
@radzi_nugraha_purba Thank you for recognizing it! Docs are very important as API first approach
Andrew Hawel
Congrats on the launch and on landing all of the great feature spots in WSJ, TechCrunch, and more!
Hitoshi Harada
@andrew_hawel We appreciate all people who recognize our progress, including everyone here. Thank you for your support!
Hatem Ahmed
I’ve tried Alpaca for stock trading and their product was easy to use and I could tell it was built with quality in mind. Very excited to try out their option trading. Congrats on the launch 🚀
Hitoshi Harada
@hatem_ahmed Thank you! Glad to see you saw our dedication to details and quality of API
Rainer Mokros
Let's see if it's that simple in the first try I banged my head. Let's see the next shoot
Hitoshi Harada
@rainer_mokros Yes please give a try and give us any feedback. We paid full attention to details but you tell us more to improve further
Rainer Mokros
Hey @umitanuki I had a look at "https://github.com/alpacahq/alpa..." but the historical data did not work. I like to backtest strategies is there a simple notebook to get the historical option chains
Jean Gérard Bousiquot
Alpaca is great. I usually trade using TradingView. Hopefully the TradingView integration will support options soon. It will be sick.
Patrick Valoppi
So proud of this team! 🦙 This launch has been touched by everyone at Alpaca in some way. We're super excited to build APIs that both our partners and community loves. PS: Postman also awarded us "Best API" last week, it's been a busy May and we're just getting started. 💪
Muhammad Hussein
Amazing mission with ambitious goals!
Tory Young
This is exciting progress. Congrats to all involved!