# Equity balances off **URL:** \ **Category:** Random\ **Created:** [May 5, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621 "2021-05-05T14:32:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![westsider450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@westsider450](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/westsider450)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621/1 "2021-05-05T14:32:12Z")
My live trading accounts are showing incorrect equity balances both in your UI and in my reports from the API. I’m looking at five live accounts for my business. The errors are in 6 figures. ---
**Author:** ![Jarkon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/jarkon/32/2564_2.png) [@Jarkon](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Jarkon)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621/2 "2021-05-05T14:39:01Z")
I’m noticing the same. It appears my equity at the end of the day yesterday is about 10% over what it should have been, then it overcorrected to about 10% below today. ---
**Author:** ![Jess\_Srader](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/jess_srader/32/1773_2.png) [@Jess\_Srader](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Jess_Srader)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621/3 "2021-05-05T14:46:58Z")
I am having the same issues the balances are all off. The positions I hold and their values seem to be correct but my balance is off by over 3k ---
**Author:** ![azkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@azkid](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/azkid)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621/4 "2021-05-05T14:52:09Z")
also having issues and my equity just dropped like a rock despite none of my positions moving more than 1% ---
**Author:** ![westsider450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@westsider450](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/westsider450)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621/5 "2021-05-05T14:53:30Z")
should I take my accounts to cash until this bug is figured out? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Aggas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/jeff_aggas/32/2328_2.png) [@Jeff\_Aggas](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Jeff_Aggas)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621/6 "2021-05-05T14:55:39Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/alp/original/2X/e/e480faa400acd7c7d24ee3374b90aaa80b188d8f.png) Yea, ouch. I currently owe Alpaca 30k somehow. ---
**Author:** ![westsider450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@westsider450](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/westsider450)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621/7 "2021-05-05T14:56:17Z")
![Screen Shot 2021-05-05 at 10.55.29 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/alp/original/2X/1/18729d81df1a3c092c14124ef9dd4c75255411d1.png) There should be about $150k in this account. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621/8 "2021-05-05T14:57:50Z")
There is a current issue with the calculation of buying power and equity in live accounts. Our team is feverishly working to resolve it. There is timely updates on our status page [Alpaca Status - Incorrect equity and day trading buying power](https://status.alpaca.markets/incidents/kzzh0r1rbtfy) Apologies for the inconvenience. ---
**Author:** ![westsider450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@westsider450](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/westsider450)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621/9 "2021-05-05T14:58:54Z")
It’s more than an inconvenience when you’ve written algos that trade on those values. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![westsider450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@westsider450](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/westsider450)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/equity-balances-off/5621/10 "2021-05-05T15:13:16Z")
appears to be fixed. Thank you.