I've been playing with the Alpaca streaming API's in Node to get quotes. I have it working, the next step is figure out a trading algorithm.
I am a pretty traditional long term investor, $AAPL, Berkshire, Bank of America, Ford, Amazon, AMD, $SPY, with 10+ years in the market. However with the crazy volatility, I have been toying with the idea of buying ProShares UltraPro Short $SQQQ to hedge my losses on big pre-market open down days. Today for example would have been a good day to own $SQQQ for the day (up 7.3%). Any insight on how to go about this hedge strategy using Alpaca? Can I get pre-market quotes for the Nasdaq?