Alpaca now offers full extended hours trading from 4 am to 8 pm ET, allowing commission-free trades of U.S. listed securities.
Extended hours trading enables investors to react to news events outside normal market hours, providing flexibility and convenience.
Developers can integrate full extended hours trading into their fintech apps to facilitate global user access to U.S. markets.
Only limit orders are currently accepted during extended hours, and orders must represent whole shares.
Extended hours trading carries inherent risks, which traders are encouraged to review before participating.

Alpaca provides a unified trading platform that includes a commission-free API, allowing automated stock and cryptocurrency trading. The platforms offer capabilities for algorithmic trading, app integration, and brokerage infrastructure. A member of FINRA and SIPC, Alpaca ensures up to $500,000 account protection. They cater to developers with SDKs in multiple programming languages. Alpaca is also preparing to launch an Options Trading API. Their services include local currency trading, crypto wallets, and advanced trading strategies like margin and short selling. Alpaca supports OAuth integration for secure API authorization and provides a testing environment to validate trading systems before live deployment.

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Alpaca provides commission-free trading API for stocks and cryptocurrencies.

Alpaca Rolls Out Full Extended Hours Stock Trading

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