# Day Trading Buying Power stuck at 0 for new paper account

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-stuck-at-0-for-new-paper-account/4009>\
**Category:** Alpaca Trading\
**Created:** [January 21, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-stuck-at-0-for-new-paper-account/4009 "2021-01-21T04:07:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![wulin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@wulin](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/wulin)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-stuck-at-0-for-new-paper-account/4009/1 "2021-01-21T04:07:27Z")

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recently, my new paper account cannot submit any order.  
I check my account and found my daytrading\_buying\_power stuck at 0.  
I explore document, it said _[Every trading day, you start with the new `daytrading_buying_power` . This beginning value is calculated as `4 * (last_equity - last_maintenance_margin)`](https://alpaca.markets/docs/trading-on-alpaca/user-protections/)_  
but my last Maintenance Margin=0, and last Equity=100,000.  
any one know what’s going on???

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**Author:** ![Peter\_K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/peter_k/32/1882_2.png) [@Peter\_K](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Peter_K)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-stuck-at-0-for-new-paper-account/4009/2 "2021-01-21T11:45:23Z")

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Same here! I also get the same error.

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**Author:** ![gerbotha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed8c4c/32.png) [@gerbotha](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/gerbotha)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-stuck-at-0-for-new-paper-account/4009/3 "2021-02-01T13:13:48Z")

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Same here, this keeps on happening. Reset the paper account many times to no avail…

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Whitnable\_Alpaca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/dan_whitnable_alpaca/32/1658_2.png) [@Dan\_Whitnable\_Alpaca](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Dan_Whitnable_Alpaca)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-stuck-at-0-for-new-paper-account/4009/4 "2021-02-01T15:44:17Z")

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@gerbotha The issues in the previous posts were from 1-21 and were the (unfortunate) result of the paper trading environment being reset mid-day. That was a one-off issue which shouldn’t generally happen.

However, this seems like you are seeing this on 2-1-2021? Could you provide more information? What is your account number or email associated with the account? You can direct message me if you wish. I can maybe track down the issue.

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**Author:** ![gerbotha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed8c4c/32.png) [@gerbotha](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/gerbotha)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/day-trading-buying-power-stuck-at-0-for-new-paper-account/4009/5 "2021-02-02T20:40:31Z")

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Thanks Dan, the issue is resolved. It was due to programming flaw on my side and I assumed it was due to the day trading buying power being 0. I incorrectly based order values from the day trading buying power as opposed to the available equity.