Automated AI Stock Trading Bot: Alpaca & Google Sheets

This n8n workflow transforms investment strategies into a fully automated AI trading bot. It integrates Alpaca's paper trading API for risk-free execution of buy and sell orders, pulling top-performing stocks from a companion sentiment analysis workflow. The bot intelligently sells underperforming positions based on waning sentiment and reallocates funds to high-potential stocks, ensuring dynamic portfolio rebalancing without manual intervention.

Key benefits include sentiment-driven decisions for data-backed trading, comprehensive logging of every transaction and daily equity changes in Google Sheets for easy auditing and performance tracking, and scheduled daily runs for hands-off operation. It's ideal for algorithmic traders, data-driven investors, and n8n users experimenting with AI in finance.

Use cases span testing trading strategies in paper mode, automating routine portfolio management, integrating AI insights with real trading actions, and building scalable financial automations. All processes are autonomous, secure, and fully auditable via Sheets exports.