# Accidentally sold instead of bought now shows -1

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/accidentally-sold-instead-of-bought-now-shows-1/2637>\
**Category:** Alpaca Trading\
**Created:** [September 14, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/accidentally-sold-instead-of-bought-now-shows-1/2637 "2020-09-14T21:32:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![elTexacan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@elTexacan](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/elTexacan)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/accidentally-sold-instead-of-bought-now-shows-1/2637/1 "2020-09-14T21:32:20Z")

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accidental sold instead of bought now shows -1, do i need to fix it or just ignore it and sell it t+2?

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**Author:** ![Justin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/justin/32/23_2.png) [@Justin](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Justin)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/accidentally-sold-instead-of-bought-now-shows-1/2637/2 "2020-09-21T17:02:39Z")

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If you don’t have a position and you sold, aren’t you opening a short position? You’d want to close that position.