Add a pre-trade check to an Alpaca agent in about 20 lines
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If you let an agent place orders on Alpaca, the agent decides the size. Alpaca will reject an order you can't pay for. It won't tell you that one order puts 60% of the account in one stock, or that the stop is so far away a bad day costs 5% of equity. So I put a check in front of submit_order . The…
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- 2026-10-30 14:09 · DEV Community — AI
Add a pre-trade check to an Alpaca agent in about 20 lines