{"repo":"AxelGard/cira","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/AxelGard/cira","clone":"git clone https://github.com/AxelGard/cira.git","description":"Cira algorithmic trading made easy. A Façade library for simpler interaction with alpaca SDK from Alpaca Markets.","language":"Python","stars":31,"topics":["cira","alpaca-trade-api","alpaca-markets","python3","python-package","pypi","trading-bot","stocks","alpaca","alpaca-trading-api"],"license":"MIT","category":"trading","readme_excerpt":"cira Cira algorithmic trading made easy. A Façade library for simpler interaction with alpaca-trade-API from Alpaca Markets. Cira is available on pip. Please give it a star if you like it! The name cira is a miss spelling of the word for a baby alpaca cria and because this is a simple and small lib I thought it would be a perfect fit. Axel Gard is main developer for cira. Getting Started If you are new to cira checkout the tutorial. Or checkout an example. Installation You can install it using pip. Usage Since the Alpaca trade API need a API key, you need to generate your own key at alpaca markets website. If you want to play around with it you can try paper trading (recommended for beginners). I recommend keep it in a JSON file which cira needs the path to. You can also set the variables directly or use an environment variable, see the wiki for diffrent the ways. However, it is recommended that you store it in a file just make sure not to upload that file on any public repositories. You can set the Alpaca keys directly For interactons with alpaca you can: DEMO, no keys needed Crypto market data can be accessed without any alpaca keys. So there for you can try cira out with out needing to get alpaca keys. To put you model in production where you buy and sell you will need alpaca keys. Needs cira =3.2.2 . you can find more examples on the examples repo and the wiki/tutorial for even more information. Cira Stratergies Cira have also support for strategies. An full example of ho","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/AxelGard","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/AxelGard/cira/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}