Live charts, multi-asset risk/return compare, an options desk, a crypto desk, and full order management — in one fast native window. Built in Rust with egui, streaming real-time data over WebSocket. Paper trading by default.
Illustrative UI preview · Chart tab with EMA + volume panes
Five workspaces over the Alpaca REST + data APIs, with a shared live tick cache, command palette, and watchlist riding along on every tab.
Multi-pane candlesticks — price, volume, RSI, MACD — with a shared X-axis and linked crosshair: pan, zoom or hover any pane and the rest move in lockstep. A right-side price scale that auto-fits the visible range, a live last-price tag, a date/time axis under the bottom pane, and charting for stocks and crypto pairs.
EMA, SMA, Bollinger Bands, VWAP, Volume, RSI (Wilder) and MACD — pure Rust math, unit-tested. Toggle each with a single key (E S B U V I O).
A dedicated WebSocket thread streams trades, quotes and minute bars into a shared tick cache. Charts patch tick-by-tick and the positions table re-prices P&L live between snapshots.
Positions, Trade, Orders and Activity sub-tabs. Place market, limit, stop, stop-limit, trailing-stop and bracket orders — each routed through a confirm-before-fire modal.
Normalized return lines, drawdown, correlation heatmap, risk/return scatter, and a Monte Carlo growth projection — all aligned to a common history so the math lines up.
Type an underlying, pick an expiration, and read a live calls/puts strike grid — bid, ask, last, volume and open interest. Place single-leg market or limit orders through the same confirm-before-fire modal, with live quotes overlaid from a second WebSocket.
Every tradable USD pair in one live Markets grid — bid/ask/last, 24h change and volume — that doubles as the trade ticket. Market, limit and stop-limit orders, sized in fractional quantity or notional dollars, on an always-on 24/7 data stream.
A Bloomberg-style command bar (press /) jumps symbols and tabs. A persistent watchlist and ticker tape ride along on every tab, and your layout is saved to disk between sessions.
Free, self-contained binaries — no installer chrome, no runtime to manage. Pick your platform below; we’ll highlight the one that matches your system.
Universal · Intel & Apple Silicon · macOS 11+
Download .dmg 7.4 MB or grab the universal binary (9.8 MB)Windows 10 / 11 · 64-bit · portable .exe
Download .exe 5.4 MBNo install — double-click to run.
x86-64 · built on Ubuntu in CI
Download binary x64 or build from source with cargoBinaries are unsigned. See the install notes below for the one-time Gatekeeper / SmartScreen step.
On first launch the app prompts for your Alpaca API key & secret and stores them at
~/Library/Application Support/alpaca-tui/credentials.json
(or the OS-equivalent). It defaults to the
paper-trading API.
.dmg and drag the app out, or download the universal binary.chmod +x Alpaca_Trading_Terminal_Rust_MAC_UNIVERSAL
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine \
Alpaca_Trading_Terminal_Rust_MAC_UNIVERSAL
./Alpaca_Trading_Terminal_Rust_MAC_UNIVERSALOr: right-click → Open → Open to bypass once.
Alpaca_Trading_Terminal_Rust_WIN.exe.Alpaca_Trading_Terminal_Rust_WIN.exe --resetPortable — no installer, runs from anywhere.
cd main-trading-terminal-rust
cargo build --release
./target/release/alpaca-eguiLinux TLS uses native-tls — install libssl-dev / pkg-config if linking fails.
Bring your own keys. You’ll need an Alpaca account and API keys. The credentials file is shared with the other terminal builds in this project, so binaries swap without re-entering keys.
Built in Rust 2021 on eframe / egui / egui_plot, with ureq for REST and tungstenite for the live WebSocket. The Rust app lives alongside Go and Electron ports of the same terminal in one repository.