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Create a Trading Strategy with Cursor. Then Deploy It to Alpaca.
Austin walks through creating a trading strategy with Cursor and Alpaca. He opens a free Alpaca account, goes to NexusTrade, clicks Connect with MCP, and clicks Add to Cursor. He already has an Alpaca account, so the login on screen is that existing account.
He asks Cursor to build a momentum strategy on big tech stocks, or on stocks from the most profitable politicians. The recording ends while Cursor is still planning. The $13,805.77 NexusTrade Alpaca portfolio, with history through September 25, 2026, is that existing account. It is not the result of the prompt in this video. No brokerage order is placed.
Transcript
0:00Here's how you can create a trading strategy using Cursor and Alpaca.
0:06The types you can create include ones with technical indicators, fundamental indicators, economic indicators, and even alternative data sources, politician or insider trading.
0:21Step one. Go to Alpaca and create a free account.
0:27I already have an account. So I log in to my existing account.
0:33Once we have an Alpaca account, we're going to go to NexusTrade. We're going to click connect with MCP, go to Cursor, and click Add to Cursor.
0:45Once we're connected, we can ask Cursor to create any trading strategy that we want.
0:50I'm gonna say, build me a momentum strategy on big tech stocks, or stocks from the most profitable politicians.
1:06And the AI will automatically use the NexusTrade MCP and create our trading strategy.
1:15And once it's done, we can deploy it straight to Alpaca.
1:21Fully autonomous trading.
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