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by ykevinator 2754 days ago
I can't believe I've never heard of alpaca before.
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It looks super interesting, but it's unclear to me if you can buy/sell options.
Alapaca's business model [0]:

> Alpaca will start offering Premium Plan subscriptions, where premium users will have access to various perks, such as higher quality live data feed and more computing resources. The pricing and exact features have not yet been determined. Please stay tuned for updates.

[0] https://support.alpaca.markets/hc/en-us/articles/36001104717...

Looks like the press release was only a few weeks ago. I wish they provided some way to access historical data, however. I struggle to find accessible and inexpensive histories.
You will access to the historical data. https://docs.alpaca.markets/web-api/market-data/ working to cover more