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General Trading Alpaca Trading Q - What is a pattern day trader (PDT)? You will be considered a pattern day trader if you “day trade” 4 or more times within 5 business days and your day trading activities are greater than 6 percent of your total tradi…	3	40975	September 6, 2023
About the Trading Category Alpaca Trading	0	1233	July 11, 2019
Validate a system Alpaca Trading	5	64	December 22, 2024
Multiple paper accounts? Alpaca Trading	11	3884	December 20, 2024
Futures trade in alpaca Alpaca Trading	6	2098	December 18, 2024
Portfolio value declined when markets closed Alpaca Trading	0	17	December 14, 2024
APIError: Potential wash trade detected. use complex orders Alpaca Trading	13	948	December 12, 2024
Why is my cash balance negative? Alpaca Trading	5	371	December 9, 2024
USDC Crypto Pairs Error Alpaca Trading	1	28	December 4, 2024
Access to Discord community? Alpaca Trading	7	1396	November 25, 2024
Crypto trading in Oregon? Alpaca Trading	1	50	November 24, 2024
Can I avoid margin by trading available cash only? Alpaca Trading	4	173	November 23, 2024
Alpaca not confirming orders Alpaca Trading	4	63	November 20, 2024
Daily account data not updating (among other issues) Alpaca Trading	2	40	November 20, 2024
Paper trading broken? (today & yesterday) Alpaca Trading	8	1145	January 6, 2022
Getting total value of equities Alpaca Trading	1	50	November 18, 2024
Multiple Paper Trading Subaccounts Alpaca Trading	1	80	November 12, 2024
Trade Stream authenticates and listens but no data arrives Alpaca Trading	3	695	November 12, 2024
Check position cost Alpaca Trading	0	33	November 9, 2024
Daytrading buying power inconsistency "Insufficient day trading buying power" Alpaca Trading	0	46	November 6, 2024
Crypto Quote Price different than Executed Price Alpaca Trading	2	391	November 4, 2024
Get_stock_bars not returning the expected bars Alpaca Trading	0	12	October 28, 2024
Get_stock_latest_quote or subscribe_quotes? Alpaca Trading	0	22	October 24, 2024
"Buying power" works differently in paper trading vs live account? Alpaca Trading	0	52	October 16, 2024
Shorting decreases buying power ~20% more than Buys Alpaca Trading	0	28	October 15, 2024
Paper Account Not Found after Resetting Alpaca Trading	5	266	October 13, 2024
403 - insufficient qty available for order (requested: 40, available: 0) Alpaca Trading	1	19	October 10, 2024
Bracket order with trailing take-profit/stop-loss Alpaca Trading	0	34	October 7, 2024
Liquidate all positions Alpaca Trading	2	56	October 7, 2024
I can't submit stop loss order with option trading Alpaca Trading	6	312	October 3, 2024