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Alpaca on Vela. Paper trade it from the chart.

Alpaca is a broker for stocks and ETFs, options and crypto. Connect your Alpaca account to Vela, our next-generation charting platform, and its balances, positions and trade history sync to your journal, read-only.

Free on every plan. Orders on your Alpaca account are paper.

Vela with the order panel open on Paper Trading by LuxAlgo and a paper long on BTCUSD, its stop loss and take profit drawn as lines, and a working buy limit

What Works Today.

  • Paper trading from the chart

    Orders on an Alpaca paper account go to Alpaca’s own paper environment.

  • Journal sync, read-only

    Balances, positions and trade history, wherever Alpaca’s API provides them, with round-trip stats.

Type
Broker
Markets
Stocks & ETFs, Options, Crypto
Connect with
API key
Trading from Vela
Paper, on Alpaca

Connect Alpaca

  1. 1Select Connect Alpaca. It opens Connections in your LuxAlgo account; sign in or create a free account first.
  2. 2Enter the API credentials from your Alpaca account. Where Alpaca lets you choose permissions, leave trading and withdrawals off.
  3. 3Your Alpaca account appears in Vela’s order panel for paper trading, and its history syncs to your journal.

Questions, answered.

No. Orders from an Alpaca paper account go to Alpaca’s paper environment, and a live key is refused.

Trade it on paper first.

Connect your broker, or start on the $100,000 paper account every plan includes.