# Day Trading Buying Power = 0 on a new account

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-0-on-a-new-account/9690>\
**Category:** Getting Started with Alpaca\
**Created:** [June 7, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-0-on-a-new-account/9690 "2022-06-07T06:36:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![MallocThePD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@MallocThePD](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/MallocThePD)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-0-on-a-new-account/9690/1 "2022-06-07T06:36:06Z")

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I’m using a paper account in order to test my strategies and the platform before going live. My day trading buying power is always 0 although I have tried to create an account multiple times and ran it for a couple days. Now my account is a brand new paper account, created outside of trading hours and my day trading buying power is still 0.

Why would that happen? I have researched this forum and found out you had an issue about it that was fixed but for me it doesn’t seem that it was fixed or I’m having a separate issue I don’t get.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Nelson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/steve_nelson/32/4224_2.png) [@Steve\_Nelson](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Steve_Nelson)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-0-on-a-new-account/9690/2 "2022-06-08T20:16:21Z")

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Do you have any open positions? Have you tried pressing the “reset” button on the paper trading account?

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**Author:** ![MallocThePD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@MallocThePD](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/MallocThePD)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-0-on-a-new-account/9690/3 "2022-06-10T14:50:36Z")

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Hi Steve, thanks for replying!  
I had no open positions, and pretty much every day I reset the account because of bugs here and there. anyway now that I kept the account open and active for a couple days I do get day trading buying power of about 4 times my virtual cash.  
I don’t know what’s going on exactly I just wanna make sure the issue is isolated to paper accounts.