Follow the steps below to sign up for a free Alpaca trading account and get your API key to subscribe to real time streaming stock quotes.
- Sign up at https://app.alpaca.markets/signup
- Check your email, and click Confirm my account in the confirmation email
- Then click the login link and log in
- Install the Google Authenticator app on your phone
- On your Web browser, click Activate MFA using Authenticator app
- You will see a QR code. From Google Authenticator, click + and scan the QR code
- In your Web browser, enter the code shown on your phone to activate MFA
- You should now be on your Alpaca dashboard at https://app.alpaca.markets/paper/dashboard/overview
- On the right side of the dashboard, click Generate New Keys in the API keys section
- You will then see both your API Key and secret key, which you can copy to your alpaca.conf file as explained in the main README