Hello, I have a problem with creating an order with fractional amounts of shares for S&P500 companies(which are available for fractional trading). Everytime I place an order with my script it says that everything is correct and then there is no order on the dashboard. Even though there is no proble…

Oh, I didn’t notice that, thank you very much. I’ll try changing it.

Just tried it, and it worked perfectly. Thank you again, my friend

I also add this around my code to make sure Alpaca allows fractions for symbols I am trading. Item is my stock ticker if item in fractionable: order = api.submit_order(symbol=item, notional=amt_to_sell, side=“sell”) And this is how I set fractionable in my code apca_assets = api.list_assets() f…

Hello, I’m having an issue with fractional share orders — tried to implement the solution from @oleg.rakhmatulin but am getting an error. Here is my code: When I use qty with a fractional amount: alpaca.submit_order(symbol=‘SPY’, qty=1.5, side=‘buy’, type=‘market’, time_in_force=‘day’) alpaca_tr…

[image] covariancematrix: alpaca.submit_order(symbol=‘SPY’, notional=600, side=‘buy’, type=‘market’, time_in_force=‘day’) try notional like this ===> alpaca.submit_order(symbol=‘SPY’, notional=600, side=‘buy’)

@Sanjay_Jadhav thanks, I tried it and here is what I get: alpaca_trade_api.rest.APIError: qty is required any other ideas, I’m open to trying them.

Hi, I’m getting the error as you. I think it might be because fractional shares are only available for ‘market’ orders with a time in force of ‘day’ and I’ve been trying when the market is closed. I’m going to try tomorrow when the market is open and report back.

I was able to resolve the issue before market open. Based on this article : By default all Alpaca accounts are allowed to trade fractional shares in both live and paper environments. Please make sure you reset your paper account if you run into any issues dealing with fractional shares. I reset m…

Hi, thanks for posting. Apologies for my delayed response, I’ve been away for several weeks. I’m going to reset my account like you did…hopefully this will work for me too. Happy 2022!

Cannot place a trade with fractional quantities of shares

Alpaca Account Troubleshooting

oleg.rakhmatulin October 8, 2021, 9:22am 2

I’m not sure but according to documentation fractional values in the qty field allowed only for the market/day order type and time-in-force combination.

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Cannot place a trade with fractional quantities of shares

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