AI stock trading bot

An AI stock trading bot that runs your rules on Alpaca

Describe how you trade US stocks and ETFs and Nick builds the bot: it reads price bars, checks the news, places orders on your Alpaca account and tells you what it did. Start on an Alpaca paper account, then switch to live when the rules hold up.

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Stock trading bots you can build today

Each one starts on an Alpaca paper account. Copy a prompt, swap the ticker or size, and Nick builds it.

SPY trend follower

Hold SPY while it trades above its 50-day average and step aside when it drops below.

Ask Nick

"Every weekday, 30 minutes before the US market close, read the daily bars for SPY. If SPY is above its 50-day moving average and I hold none, buy $1,000 of SPY on my Alpaca paper account. If it is below and I hold some, sell the position. Email me every order."

Stocks Data
Function
Conditional
Alpaca order
Email

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Mag 7 dip buyer with a bracket

Buy sharp daily drops in the largest tech names with the exit rules set in the same order.

Ask Nick

"Every hour on weekdays, read the hourly bars for AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, AMZN, GOOGL, META and TSLA. If any of them is down more than 4% on the day, buy $500 of it on my Alpaca paper account with a stop-loss 5% below the entry and a take-profit 8% above. Text me each order."

Stocks Data
Conditional
Alpaca order
SMS

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NVDA news watcher

Hear about material NVDA news within the hour, with the price move next to it.

Ask Nick

"Every 30 minutes, search X for posts with the $NVDA cashtag from the accounts I pick and read the latest headlines from an RSS feed. Have a model decide whether any of it is material news. If it is, send me a Telegram alert with a short summary and the last hour of NVDA price bars. Do not place any trades."

X Data
RSS Feed
Stocks Data
LLM
Telegram

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How it works

From a trading idea to a running stock bot

Describe the bot: the tickers, the rule, the size and how you want to hear about it.
Nick builds the workflow and shows it to you before anything runs.
Connect an Alpaca paper account and run it on a schedule, from every few minutes to once a month.
When you are ready, connect your live Alpaca account and keep the same rules.

Orders on Alpaca

The order types you already use

Nick trades US stocks and ETFs on your own Alpaca account, live or paper. Your funds stay with Alpaca.

Market, limit, stop, stop-limit and trailing stop orders, with GTC, IOC, FOK or DAY.
Stop-loss and take-profit attached to the entry as a bracket.
Size in shares, in dollars, as a percent of your portfolio, or by the dollars you are willing to risk.
The Portfolio node reads your Alpaca positions, balances, orders and PnL.

Stock data

Price bars, news and social signal in one workflow

Stocks Data pulls historical OHLCV bars for US equities from Databento, at 1-minute, 1-hour or 1-day resolution, for up to 10 tickers per run.
Search X by cashtag, keyword or the accounts you pick, and read any RSS news feed.
Put an LLM step in the workflow to read the data and give a structured decision.
Send the result to email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, SMS or a phone call.

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Your agent builds; you run or activate any workflow that places orders, in Nick.

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Connect Nick to the AI assistant you already use and describe your strategy in plain English. Your agent builds; you run or activate any workflow that places orders, in Nick.

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Alpaca. Nick trades US stocks and ETFs, and crypto, on your own Alpaca account, live or paper.

Yes. Connect an Alpaca paper account and Nick runs the bot on live prices with simulated money. Switch to your live account when you are ready.

Nick does not run historical backtests today. Paper trading runs your strategy forward on live prices, order by order, so you can see how it behaves before real money is involved.

No. Describe the bot in plain language. If you do code, you can add Python, JavaScript or TypeScript steps with the Function node.