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DuckyHelper in Alpaca

DuckyHelper sees Alpaca on your screen and, in early access, works in it with its own cursor to fetch stock and crypto quotes, pull historical price bars, browse option chains, manage watchlists, and review your positions and orders. It's built to ask before it sends or pays, and explains or draws on Alpaca when you want to learn it.

Try asking
  • “Look up the watchlists and create a watchlist”
  • “Delete all open positions in Alpaca”
  • “Show me how to create a watchlist”

Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask out loud. Doing the work for you is early access on Mac.

Watchlists in AlpacaDone in 5sExample
Look up the watchlists and create a watchlist
  1. Looked up the watchlists in Alpaca
  2. Created a watchlist

Done in Alpaca.

Alpaca
Done
Created a watchlistin Alpaca
Worked for 5s
Looked up the watchlists
Created a watchlist

Drawn from Alpaca's own actions · early access on Mac

WHAT TO ASK

Things you can ask it to do in Alpaca

Each one is something Alpaca itself lets you do, said the way you'd ask. Questions about your screen work today; having it do the job is early access on Mac.

Ask about it

Works today

It sees your screen, answers out loud and draws on it.

  • “Explain this bar to me”
  • “Where do I find the crypto latest quotes in Alpaca?”
  • “Show me how to create a watchlist”
  • “What does this button do?”
  • “Walk me through this screen”

Read and find

Early access

It opens Alpaca and looks things up for you.

  • Look up the watchlists
  • Look up the crypto latest quotes
  • Look up the option latest quotes
  • Look up the historical stock bars
  • Look up the crypto US latest bars
  • Look up the most active stocks
  • List the account positions
  • Look up the crypto perp latest bars
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  • Look up the crypto US latest quotes
  • Look up the options historical bars
  • Look up the quotes for stock symbol
  • Look up the historical crypto US bars
  • Look up the crypto perp latest quotes
  • Look up the crypto US historical quotes
  • Look up all open positions
  • Look up a watchlist
  • Look up all orders
  • Look up the crypto US trades
  • Look up a crypto latest quote
  • Look up the stock bars for multiple symbols
  • Look up the crypto perps global latest bars
  • Look up the latest bars for a crypto symbol
  • Look up a watchlist by name
  • Look up the crypto bars for multiple symbols
  • Look up the historical bars for stock symbol
  • Look up the latest bars for a crypto symbols
  • Look up the latest crypto trades
  • Look up the crypto perps global latest quotes
  • Look up the quotes for multiple stock symbols
  • Look up the options latest trades
  • Look up the crypto US latest trades
  • Look up the crypto perp latest trades
  • Look up the options historical trades
  • Look up all account positions
  • Look up the latest bars for multiple stock symbols
  • Look up the latest quotes for multiple stock symbols
  • Look up an open position
  • Look up a latest bar for stock symbol
  • Look up a latest quote for stock symbol
  • Look up the crypto perps global latest trades
  • Look up the trades for multiple stock symbols
  • Look up the trades for multiple crypto symbols
  • Look up the historical trades for stock symbol
  • Look up the stock auctions
  • Look up the crypto latest orderbooks
  • Look up the stock conditions
  • Look up the option contracts
  • Look up a stocks meta conditions trade
  • Look up the crypto US latest orderbooks
  • Look up the latest trades for multiple stock symbols
  • Look up an option chain
  • Look up an options meta conditions trade
  • Look up the crypto perp latest orderbooks
  • Look up the options meta conditions
  • Look up the crypto perp latest pricing
  • Look up a latest trade for stock symbol
  • Look up the exchanges
  • Look up the news
  • Look up the meta exchanges
  • Look up an option contract
  • Look up the stock auctions for a symbol
  • Look up the crypto perps global latest pricing
  • Look up the account activities
  • Look up a Calendar
  • Look up the crypto snapshots
  • Look up the options snapshots
  • Look up the crypto US snapshots
  • Look up a clock
  • Look up a market Calendar
  • Look up a subscription
  • Look up the account portfolio history
  • Look up the top movers by market type
  • Look up a specific announcement
  • Look up an account
  • Look up the account activities by activity type
  • Look up the stock snapshots for multiple symbols
  • Look up the options snapshots by underlying symbol
  • Look up a stock snapshot for a symbol
  • Look up the PDT status
  • Look up the account configurations

Write and send

Early access

It's built to ask before anything is sent or paid.

  • Create a watchlist
  • Update a watchlist
  • Update a watchlist by name
  • Add an asset to a watchlist
  • Add an asset to a watchlist by name
  • Upload the account CIP information
  • Update the trading configurations
  • Update the account configurations

Manage

Early access

It tidies up and changes things in Alpaca.

  • Delete a watchlist
  • Delete all open positions
  • Remove an asset from a watchlist
  • Remove a symbol from a watchlist
  • Delete all orders for an account
  • Delete an unsubscribe account

Why Use DuckyHelper?

Works in Alpaca like you do

  • Early access: it sees Alpaca on your screen and works in it with its own cursor, while you keep using yours
  • Nothing to set up: it works in Alpaca signed in as you
  • Finishes multi-step jobs across Alpaca and your other apps

Built to ask before it sends or pays

  • Built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything
  • Built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you
  • It listens and looks only while the pill is open

Shows you, not just tells you

  • Explains Alpaca out loud and draws right on your screen
  • Works it out with you on a blackboard when you want to learn it

Always there, in every app

  • Press one key in any app and ask out loud: fn on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux
  • Runs jobs on a schedule (early access)
  • For Mac, Windows and Linux

Want it in every app you use?

One account works in every app on your computer. Try it for 10 minutes, no card, then pick a plan.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

On your screen, the way a person at your computer would. Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask about what you see in Alpaca: it answers out loud and can draw on Alpaca to show you where things are. In early access on Mac it also works in Alpaca with its own cursor, signed in as you, while you keep using yours.

For example: “Look up the watchlists and create a watchlist” and “Delete all open positions in Alpaca”. Or ask about what you see: “Show me how to create a watchlist”. Doing the work for you is in early access on Mac.

No. Open Alpaca and sign in yourself, the way you always do. DuckyHelper works in the window you have open, signed in as you. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you.

It's built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything, and to wait for your yes. It may not recognize every send or payment, so keep an eye on tasks that involve messages or money.

Yes. Press one key and ask out loud. It answers out loud while you keep working, draws on your screen to show you where things are, or works it out with you on a blackboard.

Yes. DuckyHelper works in any app on your computer, so one job can move between Alpaca and the other apps and pages you use.

Doing the work for you is new and in early access on Mac. Asking out loud, drawing on your screen and the blackboard work today on Mac, Windows and Linux.

No. It listens and looks only while the pill is open. When the pill is closed, nothing is heard or seen.

No, there is no charge per app. Try DuckyHelper for 10 minutes with no card. Plus is $20 a month, $14 a month for your first 3 months. See pricing.

Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later), Windows and Linux. Download DuckyHelper.

No. DuckyHelper is made by MingLLM, Inc. and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Alpaca. It works in Alpaca the same way you do, on your screen.

Try it in Alpaca.Press one key and ask.

It sees Alpaca, explains it out loud and does the work with you.Try it for 10 minutes, no card.

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Questions and jobs

Do anything

Ask it a question or hand it a job, in any app.

Doing jobs for you is in early access on Mac. Asking works on Mac, Windows and Linux.