Implementing Options Trading for Beta Users in Alpaca's Paper Environment

[matiasvillaverde]

Alpaca has recently introduced support for options trading for selected beta users in its paper trading environment.

As a new Rust developer, I'm interested in exploring how I could contribute to expanding this feature. Although relatively new to this language, I am eager to apply my growing skills to real-world practices, while also learning from more experienced developers.

I am looking forward to any guidance or suggestions the community can offer.

[d-e-s-o]

I think it makes sense to add that support. We'd have to add some feature behind which we can put unstable/beta functionality as a first step. This came up before e.g., #64 & #65.

I'll have to look at what the upstream API looks like before I can provide any suggestions re: implementation. Should be able to get to it the coming weekend.

[d-e-s-o]

Where is the documentation for options @matiasvillaverde? Haven't found any traces of anything.

[JMANN240]

@d-e-s-o I have a fork where I implemented options chain functionality. Any chance that could be merged in? I can make a PR.

[d-e-s-o]

No, sorry. I can't afford to spend any more time on wrapping an API maintained by monkeys without any idea of what software versioning or backwards compatibility means (or software quality for that matter).

[JMANN240]

Yeah, I don't blame you. Understood.