Alpaca Trading

Intent

Support safe paper trading, Alpaca automation, broker workflow analysis, and Trading repo changes without increasing live trading risk.

Do Not Use When

• Do not use for financial advice, guaranteed performance claims, live order execution without explicit user instruction, or unrelated trading platforms.
• Required context is missing and cannot be reasonably inferred.
• A more specific skill in this repo is a better match.

Use this skill when the user is working in the Trading repository on Alpaca-connected scripts, backtesting workflows, journaling, scheduling, or reusable PowerShell Alpaca modules.

Trigger When

• The user mentions the Trading repo, Alpaca scripts, paper trading, backtesting, journaling, scheduler jobs, or Alpaca PowerShell modules.
• The task touches Alpaca/, Backtesting/, Journal/, Scheduler/, src/, Tests/, rsi_macd_bot/, or btc-signal-executor/.
• The user wants to build, extend, debug, document, test, or review repo workflows around Alpaca trading.