Got the email today that 24/5 trading is supposed to be working for live accounts. Doesn’t look like I can get any orders to be in effect during the overnight session. API and dashboard orders show as “accepted” like they always have as they take effect at the 4:00 pre-market open.
Anybody able to get an overnight session trade to work on live?
Same, I have the same experience as you. Tried placing an order via API in a paper account and it was accepted rather than active and did not fill even though the conditions were appropriate. Is 24/5 trading actually enabled in production yet? @Alpaca-Dev , can you please help look into this, as your recent communications explicitly say that the 24/5 trading feature is available for all Trading API users at this time. How to Trade 24/5 with Alpaca's Trading API and dashboard
@BRYAN305 @velocity_king_kong What were the assets you were trying to trade? Not all assets are available to trade in the overnight session. That may have been the issue. If you could provide the order numbers that would be a help and I can get more detail.
I placed an order on the Paper Trading API which is supposed to support 24/5 Trading, and the security is SQQQ which I already confirmed is available to trade overnight. Below is the JSON response when placing the buy order against the Paper Trading API during yesterday’s overnight session. Note: I have cancelled the order at this time but maybe you can check to see in the backend if there is anything wrong, or if there is anything wrong in the JSON:
{
“id”:“19bb3890-09e0-4e30-9476-e04c0b976202”,
“created_at”:“2026-02-13T02:48:49.951590673Z”,
“updated_at”:“2026-02-13T02:48:49.953037253Z”,
“submitted_at”:“2026-02-13T02:48:49.951590673Z”,
“filled_at”:“None”,
“expired_at”:“None”,
“canceled_at”:“None”,
“failed_at”:“None”,
“replaced_at”:“None”,
“replaced_by”:“None”,
“replaces”:“None”,
“asset_id”:“791a6ebc-7b43-413b-becd-f32453dd99d4”,
“symbol”:“SQQQ”,
“asset_class”:“us_equity”,
“notional”:“None”,
“qty”:“1”,
“filled_qty”:“0”,
“filled_avg_price”:“None”,
“order_class”:“”,
“order_type”:“limit”,
“type”:“limit”,
“side”:“buy”,
“position_intent”:“buy_to_open”,
“time_in_force”:“day”,
“limit_price”:“72.8”,
“stop_price”:“None”,
“status”:“accepted”,
“extended_hours”:true,
“legs”:“None”,
“trail_percent”:“None”,
“trail_price”:“None”,
“hwm”:“None”,
“subtag”:“None”,
“source”:“None”,
“expires_at”:“2026-02-14T01:00:00Z”
}
@velocity_king_kong First off, thank you for being a long time Alpaca user. How do I know? The issue stems from the fact that you have an account created before 2021. Many of the features such as overnight trading and notional orders were not available then. These “legacy” accounts, which internally are referred to as PAPERV2 accounts, do not support or more problematically, get confused with some of the new features. In this case these legacy accounts simply ignore overnight trading.
The fix unfortunately is to create a new paper account. That will be a new PAPERV3 account and should resolve all your issues.
Apologies for the confusion.
Ah that is fascinating to know! Thanks for the detailed response. I will try creating a new paper account and see if it works during the next overnight session Sunday. Is there any account versioning issue that will impact overnight trading for live trading accounts, or is this versioning issue only a limitation for paper accounts?
@velocity_king_kong Live accounts are always up-to-date with the current features so there won’t be any issues with overnight trading. This is only a paper account issue. Try a new paper account and let me know if there are any problems.
I have been informed by the helpdesk that overnight trading isn’t enabled on elite smart router yet. Soon. I shall wait.
Thanks for your help here! I tried this evening with a newer paper account and the overnight trade worked!
@Dan_Whitnable_Alpaca any idea when 24/5 is slated to be released for elite smart router?