canonical: https://jentic.com/apis/alphainsider.com/alphainsider

# AlphaInsider Trading API

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for AlphaInsider Trading API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. AlphaInsider is a trading-strategy marketplace for crypto and equities, and this integration exposes a single webhook endpoint that brokers and copy-trading platforms call to forward strategy trade signals into AlphaInsider for paper-trading tracking. No live orders are executed through the API; it is a one-way ingest channel for paper-trade fills used to track strategy performance.

## For AI agents

Forward paper-trading order signals from a broker or strategy provider into AlphaInsider via a single bearer-authenticated webhook. Used to track strategy performance, never to place live trades.

## Scope

Does not place live broker orders, stream market data, or return strategy signals - use only for forwarding paper-trade fills into AlphaInsider for performance tracking.

## Capabilities

- Forward new paper-trade order signals from a broker or strategy provider into AlphaInsider
- Authenticate inbound trade webhooks with a bearer token tied to a specific strategy account
- Track entry and exit fills against a published AlphaInsider strategy for performance attribution
- Integrate copy-trading bridges that mirror live broker fills as paper trades for marketplace listing
- Send signed order payloads with symbol, side, quantity, and price for downstream strategy scoring

## Use cases

### Strategy Performance Tracking via Webhook

Strategy publishers on AlphaInsider point their trading bot or broker integration at the new-order webhook so that every entry and exit fill is recorded as a paper trade. AlphaInsider scores the strategy on those forwarded signals and surfaces the track record on the marketplace, so subscribers can evaluate it before copying.

Example prompt: POST a paper-trade order to /newOrderWebhook with symbol AAPL, side buy, quantity 10, and price 195.20, authenticated with the strategy's bearer token.

### Copy-Trading Bridge from Broker to Marketplace

Operators of broker-side copy-trading systems mirror their executed live orders to AlphaInsider as paper trades, giving the strategy a public, auditable performance record without exposing the live broker. The webhook accepts JSON payloads with the trade fields needed for marketplace attribution.

Example prompt: On every broker fill event, transform the broker payload into the AlphaInsider order schema and POST it to /newOrderWebhook with the strategy's bearer token.

### AI Agent Signal Forwarding via Jentic

An AI trading-research agent built on Jentic can receive a 'log this trade to AlphaInsider' instruction and resolve it to the AlphaInsider webhook with the right bearer token in scope. Jentic isolates the strategy token in your Jentic One instance, so the agent never sees the raw secret.

Example prompt: Search Jentic for 'forward a paper trade to AlphaInsider', load the new-order webhook schema, and execute it with the order details from the agent's working memory.

## Key endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| POST | /newOrderWebhook | Submit a new paper-trade order signal for a published strategy |

## Key resources

- **Orders** — Submit new paper-trade order signals via the new-order webhook

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring the AlphaInsider Trading API by hand means setting up its bearer token against alphainsider.com/api and posting paper-trade fills to the order webhook yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the AlphaInsider Trading API from the API Directory, store the bearer token once, and your agent calls it.
- **Permission scoping:** The AlphaInsider Trading API exposes a single /newOrderWebhook operation whose fill data travels in the request body rather than a path resource, so limit the agent to that one operation. You choose whether the agent may call it, and no other operations exist to add.
- **Credential handling:** Your AlphaInsider bearer token is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'forward a paper-trade fill to AlphaInsider', and Jentic returns the matching AlphaInsider operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

## Related APIs

- **Finnhub Stock API** — Real-time quotes and fundamentals to enrich strategy signals before forwarding
- **Polygon.io API** — Market data feed for backtesting strategies before publishing them on AlphaInsider
- **Tiingo API** — End-of-day and intraday market data feed for strategy research

## FAQ

### Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for AlphaInsider Trading API?

AlphaInsider does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call AlphaInsider Trading API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

### What authentication does the AlphaInsider Trading API use?

The webhook is authenticated with a bearer token issued per strategy from the AlphaInsider account dashboard. Through Jentic, that token is stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and only attached at request time.

### Can I place real trades with the AlphaInsider Trading API?

No. The /newOrderWebhook endpoint accepts paper-trade signals only and is used solely to track and score published strategy performance. Live order routing happens at your broker, not here.

### What are the rate limits for the AlphaInsider Trading API?

Specific rate limits are not published in the spec. Because the API exposes a single webhook used per strategy fill, normal trading frequencies fall comfortably within typical webhook ingestion limits. Build retry-with-backoff for 429 responses.

### How do I forward a paper trade to AlphaInsider through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, then search with the query 'forward a paper trade to AlphaInsider'. Load the schema for POST /newOrderWebhook and execute with symbol, side, quantity, and price fields and the strategy's bearer credential.

### Does the AlphaInsider Trading API send order signals back to my system?

No. This integration is one-way ingest only. To consume signals from a published AlphaInsider strategy, use the broker-side copy-trading flow, not this webhook.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the AlphaInsider Trading API?

Yes. The AlphaInsider Trading API exposes a single POST /newOrderWebhook operation, so with Jentic One, which you self-host, your own rules decide whether the agent may call it. Because that webhook is the only operation and its fill data travels in the request body, scoping is a straightforward on or off choice with no other endpoints for the agent to reach. The bearer token stays under your control and is attached only at request time, so the agent forwards paper-trade signals without ever holding the raw secret.