Alpaca StrawberryThe Alpaca orders nobody wants to work through
A companion works the 8 operations your Alpaca account exposes. It can close a position and close all positions, and every one of those waits on an approval card showing the order before it changes.
Open the order. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the Alpaca afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing landing on a order until you approve it.
What it can do is exactly what Alpaca exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 8 operations, 4 reads and 4 writes. In practice that means it can close a position, close all positions and cancel an order, and work across the orders, positions and account infos.
The Alpaca API stops at Alpaca. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Which Alpaca orders does a companion see?
4 of the 8 operations are reads.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can get an account info, place order and list positions, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from Alpaca's documentation.
The orders are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the positions. A companion can hold all 8 of these operations and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of Alpaca admin becomes a queue you review.
- Get Account Info
- Place Order
- List Positions
- List Orders
Which orders wait for your approval?
All 4 write operations wait for you.
A companion can close a position, close all positions and cancel an order, and each one is staged on an approval card first: you see the order, the field and the new value before it lands in Alpaca.
Nothing in Alpaca is sent, changed or deleted on your behalf without that click, and a rejected card leaves the order exactly as it was. The gate is the same one on every surface, described at security.
- Close Position
- Close All Positions
- Cancel Order
- Cancel All Orders
Can the orders pass run every Monday?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the Alpaca orders pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The product and engineering playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the site work, the Alpaca orders sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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