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name: alpaca-trailing-stop-bot description: Turn Claude into a paper-trading bot that opens a position, protects downside with a trailing stop, and ladders in on drops.

Alpaca Trailing Stop Trading Bot

What This Does

The creator walks through connecting Claude Desktop to a free Alpaca paper trading account using the endpoint, key, and secret, then instructs Claude to buy a stock at market and manage a trailing stop that only moves up. He shows how to add ladder buys at -15%, -20%, -30% drawdowns and schedule Claude to check the position every 5 minutes during market hours Monday to Friday.

What You Get

• Alpaca paper account setup steps
• trailing stop rules Claude enforces
• ladder buy tiers with share counts
• scheduled 5-minute check during market hours
• live summary of every order placed

Customize

• ticker: symbol to trade (default Tesla)
• stop_loss_pct: percent below entry that triggers sell
• trail_pct: percent below high that floor tracks
• ladder_tiers: drawdown percentages that trigger buy-more
• schedule: which hours and days to monitor

Sample Output

Claude buys 10 shares of Tesla, sets a 10% stop, moves the floor up 5% every time the price climbs 10%, and adds 10 shares at -15% or 20 shares at -20%, then schedules itself to check every 5 minutes.

Target Audience

Retail traders using Claude Desktop and paper accounts to automate simple rules-based strategies

Source

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lH5wrfNwL3k