# Available Shares

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/available-shares/3522>\
**Category:** Alpaca Trading\
**Created:** [December 4, 2020, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/available-shares/3522 "2020-12-04T12:47:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/available-shares/3522/1 "2020-12-04T12:47:52Z")

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Is there a way to query the number of shares a specific position which are available to sell (i.e. not already covered by a separate sell order)? If I try to sell shares which are already covered by a sell limit order, than I get an insufficient quantity error and it states the number of shares “available”, but I would like to be able to query that value instead. Thanks,