Alpaca’s Claude Connectors Simulate Orders Without Executing Live Trades

Alpaca launched two connectors for Claude on November 12, 2026, bringing simulated order placement and live portfolio monitoring into natural-language conversations while keeping live trade execution outside the AI assistant. The Paper Trading connector links an Alpaca paper account through the company’s Trading API and Market Data API. It supports market analysis, account monitoring and simulated trades in stocks, ETFs and options; its listing in Anthropic’s Claude directory also includes...