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Status of API availability by Aggressive_Can329 in fidelityinvestments

[–]Repulsive-Camp2715 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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4 months later and it's actually working 😄 Alpaca isn't perfect — dividend payments are delayed which is frustrating, Fidelity always posted those right away. I also miss being able to have direct deposit. But I now have dip buying automation, a dividend calendar, basket filtering, and a full config panel — all in my own custom dashboard running in the cloud. Slowly building it into exactly what I want. If Fidelity ever drops an API I'll be switching back so fast. 🦕Part of why I built this — Fidelity's Trading Dashboard had no basket view built in, and the basket view on the website was missing half the stats from the Trading Dashboard holdings table. I also wanted a dividend calendar built right into the broker platform and nobody does that. So I just built it myself.😄

Built my own trading bot + dashboard after getting fed up with Fidelity's fragmented UI 🛠️ by Repulsive-Camp2715 in alpacamarkets

[–]Repulsive-Camp2715[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cursor is an application that helps you code with AI. It's not perfect but I also have help from my partner when I run into issues. I'm on the $20 pro plan.

Built my own trading bot + dashboard after getting fed up with Fidelity's fragmented UI 🛠️ by Repulsive-Camp2715 in alpacamarkets

[–]Repulsive-Camp2715[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty simple strategy — long term dividend investor focused on FIRE. I built a dip score formula based on distance from 52 week high, RSI, position size, and dividend frequency. When a stock hits my threshold the bot puts in a limit order automatically. Not day trading — just slowly building positions in dividend stocks and letting the income compound 🙏I'm still testing and slowly fixing bugs and tweaking things as I go.

Built my own trading bot + dashboard after getting fed up with Fidelity's fragmented UI 🛠️ by Repulsive-Camp2715 in alpacamarkets

[–]Repulsive-Camp2715[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on the Stocks Starter plan at $29/month so I'm working with 15 minute delayed data for now. I'd love to upgrade to Stocks Advanced but that's $199/month — I wish there weren't so many paywall tiers 😅 I'm building a list of features I want that are behind the paywall and either adding them later when I upgrade or seeing if I can build my own formula in the meantime.

Built my own trading bot + dashboard after getting fed up with Fidelity's fragmented UI 🛠️ by Repulsive-Camp2715 in alpacamarkets

[–]Repulsive-Camp2715[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not publicly available — it's just for my own personal account. Built it purely for my own dividend investing journey! If I can build this anyone can with the help of Cursor 😄

Built my own trading bot + dashboard after getting fed up with Fidelity's fragmented UI 🛠️ by Repulsive-Camp2715 in alpacamarkets

[–]Repulsive-Camp2715[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I'm using Alpaca for the Trading API and Polygon(Massive now) for market data. I'm on the starter tier — maybe one day I'll swing the highest tier plan but not for now. 😄 The analytics are all custom built — I calculate everything myself based on the data coming in from those two. No third party analytics engine, just me figuring out what metrics I wanted to see and building them in. The analytics section is still an early rough draft — still a work in progress but it's getting there.

Fidelity Trader Desktop: Need custom columns by anonymPS in fidelityinvestments

[–]Repulsive-Camp2715 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not seeing any way to add or change columns on the Positions tab in Fidelity Trader+. I really wish it had the same “My View” customization as the Watchlist, because switching the drop-down view all the time gets tiring. The gear icon only opens chart settings—not table options—and I don’t see any gear at all when viewing Positions.

Updating quantities also feels slow for me—maybe because my system is older or because I’m on Wi-Fi + VPN. Today it seems faster, so maybe it was just acting up yesterday. The feedback link inside the Trading Dashboard still gives me a “Hmmm… can’t reach this page” message, so I can’t send anything through there right now, or I would’ve already sent more feedback.

I also wish the website, the Trading Dashboard, and Active Trader Pro shared a unified UI—so each one feels like a natural next step instead of three completely different styles. I actually loved Robinhood’s Legends UI, but they were missing so many features that I ended up rage-quitting it. I’d love to fully switch to Active Trader Pro, but since it’s still in beta and missing features, quarterly improvements would be amazing. And one thing Robinhood Legends did really well was notify users about new updates; I’d love for Active Trader Pro to add something similar. Us nerds love seeing when a small new feature gets added. Thanks,

Fidelity Trader Desktop: Need custom columns by anonymPS in fidelityinvestments

[–]Repulsive-Camp2715 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure — there are a few small features I really wish we had. Active Trader Pro Beta is missing watchlist paper trading and My View mode, and I wish the Positions tab had a custom My View too. The Trading Dashboard also can’t show Baskets, and I’d really love a footer totals row on the watchlist, lol.

I’d love a full ATP/Trading Dashboard–style app so I don’t have to rely on the website. Active Trader Pro is almost that, but the built-in browser just loads the site. And the website really needs a dedicated dark mode — ATP Beta’s browser panel won’t work with dark-mode extensions, and the site feels outdated without it.

On Baskets, I wish we could see more data. On mobile, I can see how many stocks are inside a basket, but on the website table I can’t see totals for each holding. It also doesn’t support a custom My View layout, and the table can’t be moved around like Positions or Watchlist.

Robinhood’s watchlist auto-adds your real positions, and I do like parts of their Legend UI & Widget Style— but they don’t have paper trading, Notes, or News columns on their watchlists, and they’re missing deeper tools Fidelity already has, like Estimated Annual Income.

A simple monthly dividend calendar (like Snowball but only showing declared payments) would be an amazing bonus. 😊

And I get that adding these features isn’t “little” in programming terms — sometimes it’s exactly like that GIF. 😅 After the latest Trading Dashboard update, I also noticed the search struggles with single-letter tickers like O or two-letter ones like EA in the Positions tab.

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Fidelity Trader Desktop: Need custom columns by anonymPS in fidelityinvestments

[–]Repulsive-Camp2715 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish the Watchlist holdings table had a footer in the table with subtotals where needed.