Stock Trading from Google Spreadsheet

I can see that. Traders in Wall Street are too practical to build something maintainable. Now G Sheet brings the same power but to software developers this time.

Excel also gives people the comfort that they can track what goes in and out and adjust easily. Giving up that control is hard.

Trading driven from a spreadsheet brings back horrible memories of my earliest days on Wall Street. Excel was usually hacked in the most grotesque ways: tick data coming in,…

When I was a trader at Merrill Lynch (NYC, 2005) I traded these basket securities on a Swiss exchange through a Rube-Goldberg-like trading system employing two Excel…

Cool, but first thought was a sarcastic “What could possibly wrong?”

Trading driven from a spreadsheet brings back horrible memories of my earliest days on Wall Street. Excel was usually hacked in the most grotesque ways: tick data coming in,…

Smart to have a SUBMIT button. POST requests with Google Sheets is generally a bad idea since you can't explicitly control when they're sent.

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.

I wish Alpaca worked for Canadians. There is Questtrade, but comparing the documentation, it isn't as nice to work with.

Is there a catch to Alpaca? How do they make money?

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…

Have you looked at Interactive Brokers? They seem to support more complex order types than Alpaca, which can meaningfully impact returns of a automated trading strategy.

Try degiro?

These guys have actually been advertising on the radio lately (in the Los Angeles area). ``` https://www.robinhood.com/ ``` They are claiming zero commissions on US based…

Quantopian ? https://www.quantopian.com/