Descriptions:
Former JP Morgan analyst Samin Yasar demonstrates how to build an AI-powered stock trading bot using Claude and Alpaca’s paper trading API — with no manual coding required. The video is structured across three progressively advanced capabilities: basic brokerage API setup, a copy-trading bot that monitors public SEC filings on institutional investor and congressional trades, and an options income strategy called the wheel.
The core setup connects Claude to Alpaca’s free API, which provides programmatic access to live market data and simulated trading against real prices. Using natural language alone, Yasar instructs Claude to buy Tesla shares, configure a trailing stop loss at -10%, ladder in additional purchases on deeper drawdowns (-20% and -30%), and schedule autonomous 5-minute position checks during market hours — all executed and confirmed without the user writing a line of code. Claude Co-work’s scheduling feature is used to keep the monitoring loop running persistently in the background.
Yasar frames the project around narrowing the information asymmetry between retail and institutional traders: public data on large investor positions and congressional stock disclosures is accessible via API, and Claude can process and act on it automatically. The wheel options strategy section explains put-selling and covered call mechanics before demonstrating how to have Claude implement them via Alpaca. The video includes a clear disclaimer that all demonstrations use paper trading (simulated money, real prices) and does not constitute financial advice.
📺 Source: Samin Yasar · Published April 06, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo
