StockTrader

This program will automatically paper trade stocks in the tech sector. It uses Alpaca Markets to function

Setup

1. Go to https://alpaca.markets and create a paper trading account
2. In the paper trading acccount generate a public and private key

3. Download and open the project
4. Install the projects external libraries (keras, matplotlib, alpaca-trade-api, tensorflow, )
5. Create a new file in the getData folder called config.py

6. in the config.py file create two strings. One called API_KEY and the other called SECRET_KEY. Set these equal to the keys given by the Alpaca Acount

7. Setup should be complete

Use

In order for the best results the program should be launched at 9:16 on days that the market is open. It will take around 15 minutes from run time for the program to be fully operational