alpaca_intraday_vwap
ActiveTool of Alpaca
Current session VWAP for US stocks — is the price above or below VWAP right now? Fetches today's 1-minute bars from 04:00 ET (pre-market included), computes the cumulative volume-weighted average price, and compares it to the latest trade. Returns current_price, session_vwap, above_vwap, and session volume per symbol. Answers "current VWAP for BLK, AAPL, RHI, CTAS — above or below?" in one call. Multiple symbols comma-separated (max 20). BYOK Alpaca (free account), real-time IEX feed. Example: alpaca_intraday_vwap({ symbols: "BLK,AAPL,RHI,CTAS", _apiKey: "key_id:secret_key" })
Parameters schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"symbols",
"_apiKey"
],
"properties": {
"_apiKey": {
"type": "string",
"description": "REQUIRED: your Alpaca credentials as \"key_id:secret_key\" — both halves joined by a colon. Free at alpaca.markets (a paper-trading account is enough for market data)."
},
"symbols": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Comma-separated ticker symbols, e.g. \"BLK,AAPL,RHI,CTAS\" (max 20)"
}
}
}No endpoints wrapped at confidence ≥ 0.70.
Parent server
Alpaca
https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-alpaca
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