View Account Information

By sending a GET request to our /v2/account endpoint, you can see various information about your account, such as the amount of buying power available or whether or not it has a PDT flag.

from alpaca.trading.client import TradingClient
from alpaca.trading.requests import GetAssetsRequest

trading_client = TradingClient('api-key', 'secret-key')

# Get our account information.
account = trading_client.get_account()

# Check if our account is restricted from trading.
if account.trading_blocked:
    print('Account is currently restricted from trading.')

# Check how much money we can use to open new positions.
print('${} is available as buying power.'.format(account.buying_power))

const Alpaca = require("@alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api");
const alpaca = new Alpaca();

// Get our account information.
alpaca.getAccount().then((account) => {
  // Check if our account is restricted from trading.
  if (account.trading_blocked) {
    console.log("Account is currently restricted from trading.");
  }

  // Check how much money we can use to open new positions.
  console.log(`$${account.buying_power} is available as buying power.`);
});

using Alpaca.Markets;
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace CodeExamples
{
    internal static class Example
    {
        private static string API_KEY = "your_api_key";

        private static string API_SECRET = "your_secret_key";

        public static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            // First, open the API connection
            var client = Alpaca.Markets.Environments.Paper
                .GetAlpacaTradingClient(new SecretKey(API_KEY, API_SECRET));

            // Get our account information.
            var account = await client.GetAccountAsync();

            // Check if our account is restricted from trading.
            if (account.IsTradingBlocked)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Account is currently restricted from trading.");
            }

            Console.WriteLine(account.BuyingPower + " is available as buying power.");

            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-go/alpaca"
)

func init() {
	alpaca.SetBaseUrl("https://paper-api.alpaca.markets")
}

func main() {
	// Get our account information.
	account, err := alpaca.GetAccount()
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	// Check if our account is restricted from trading.
	if account.TradingBlocked {
		fmt.Println("Account is currently restricted from trading.")
	}

	// Check how much money we can use to open new positions.
	fmt.Printf("%v is available as buying power.\n", account.BuyingPower)
}

View Gain/Loss of Portfolio

You can use the information from the account endpoint to do things like calculating the daily profit or loss of your account.

from alpaca.trading.client import TradingClient
from alpaca.trading.requests import GetAssetsRequest

trading_client = TradingClient('api-key', 'secret-key')

# Get our account information.
account = trading_client.get_account()

# Check our current balance vs. our balance at the last market close
balance_change = float(account.equity) - float(account.last_equity)
print(f'Today\'s portfolio balance change: ${balance_change}')

const Alpaca = require("@alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api");
const alpaca = new Alpaca();

// Get account information.
alpaca.getAccount().then((account) => {
  // Calculate the difference between current balance and balance at the last market close.
  const balanceChange = account.equity - account.last_equity;

  console.log("Today's portfolio balance change:", balanceChange);
});

using Alpaca.Markets;
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

// With the Alpaca API, you can check on your daily profit or loss by
// comparing your current balance to yesterday's balance.

namespace GetPnLExample
{
    internal class GetPnL
    {
        private static string API_KEY = "your_api_key";

        private static string API_SECRET = "your_secret_key";

        public static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            // First, open the API connection
            var client = Alpaca.Markets.Environments.Paper
                .GetAlpacaTradingClient(new SecretKey(API_KEY, API_SECRET));

            // Get account info
            var account = await client.GetAccountAsync();

            // Check our current balance vs. our balance at the last market close
            var balance_change = account.Equity - account.LastEquity;

            Console.WriteLine($"Today's portfolio balance change: ${balance_change}");
        }
    }
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-go/alpaca"
)

func main() {
	alpaca.SetBaseUrl("https://paper-api.alpaca.markets")

	// Get account information.
	account, err := alpaca.GetAccount()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalln(err)
	}

	// Calculate the difference between current balance and balance at the last market close.
	balanceChange := account.Equity.Sub(account.LastEquity)

	fmt.Println("Today's portfolio balance change:", balanceChange)
}