top_mover_buy_and_trailing_stop_orders_alpaca.py

os.environ["APCA_API_BASE_URL"] = "https://paper-api.alpaca.markets"
api = tradeapi.REST('{YOUR_ALPACA_API_KEY}','{YOUR_ALPACA_KEY_SECRET}', api_version='v2')

for ticker in top_movers.ticker.head(10):
    try:
        # Submit a market order to buy an amount of each ticker that was pulled from the top mover list
        api.submit_order(
            symbol=ticker,
            qty=1,
            side='buy',
            type='market',
            time_in_force='gtc'
        )
        
    except:
        # log out the tickers that did not work. Not all tickers are avaiable via the Alpaca API.
        print(f"A market buy order was no opened for {ticker}")

#allow for all marekt buy orders to be placed before submitting the trailing stop orders
time.sleep(3)
        
for ticker in top_movers.ticker.head(10):
    try:
        # Submit trailing stop orders for each of the 10 stock with a trail of 1%
        api.submit_order(
            symbol=ticker,
            qty=1,
            side='sell',
            type='trailing_stop',
            trail_percent=1.0,  # stop price will be hwm*0.99
            time_in_force='gtc',
        )
    except:
        # log out the tickers that did not work. Not all tickers are avaiable via the Alpaca API.
        print(f"A trailing stop sell order was not opened for {ticker}")
        

for ticker in top_movers.ticker.head(10):
    try:
        # Submit a market order to buy an amount of each ticker that was pulled from the top mover list
        api.submit_order(
            symbol=ticker,
            qty=1,
            side='buy',
            type='market',
            time_in_force='gtc'
        )
        
    except:
        # log out the tickers that did not work. Not all tickers are avaiable via the Alpaca API.
        print(f"A market buy order was no opened for {ticker}")

#allow for all marekt buy orders to be placed before submitting the trailing stop orders
time.sleep(3)
        
for ticker in top_movers.ticker.head(10):
    try:
        # Submit trailing stop orders for each of the 10 stock with a trail of 1%
        api.submit_order(
            symbol=ticker,
            qty=1,
            side='sell',
            type='trailing_stop',
            trail_percent=1.0,  # stop price will be hwm*0.99
            time_in_force='gtc',
        )
    except:
        # log out the tickers that did not work. Not all tickers are avaiable via the Alpaca API.
        print(f"A trailing stop sell order was not opened for {ticker}")