# Bracket Order Glitches

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/bracket-order-glitches/4793>\
**Category:** Alpaca Integration Applications\
**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/bracket-order-glitches/4793 "2021-03-04T19:00:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![firenibbler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/firenibbler/32/2345_2.png) [@firenibbler](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/firenibbler)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/bracket-order-glitches/4793/1 "2021-03-04T19:00:13Z")

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Hey, so I’m new here, and recently created a trading strategy in nodejs that sends long bracket orders as its main order type.

I have had several issues with it, for example, the take profit limit order is being “held” for nearly every single bracket order, as are the stop-loss orders. I understand that this is expected for the stop-loss orders and that they change to market orders when the price hits the stop loss, but I have several positions that went below the stop-loss and it did not trigger the sell and has stayed below the stop-loss for several hours.

Any ideas what’s going on? Is my account broken? Is alpaca just experiencing a huge amount of bugs? I am currently testing in a paper account. I would also like to note that the first leg of every bracket order, entering the long position, is filling 100% every time. So its not an issue of partial fills.