Problem Summary I had an open position over the weekend tried to terminate it and it wouldn’t terminate, so I clicked cancel the transaction instead it went to pending cancel any other order I place now is pending cancel. Paper or Live Tradng? paper trading. See the picture [Screenshot from 2020…

I am about to start live with Alpaca, but I am concerned that this issue is present in their LIVE platform and not just in Paper Trading. How often do you see this issue in the Live platform? And Alpaca support doesnt offer much info about the root cause and if this issue has been addressed already …

It’s only happened to my live account once in six active months of live trading

ok thanks, I will start live then…fingers crossed not to find any tech issues

Same issue and its a deal breaker, because a new order for the shares can’t be placed because there are not enough shares. This bug could obviously destroy an accounts value.

Hi @Brian_Rowe - this issue from 2020 has been resolved. Do you want to give me some more details on what you’re seeing? Are you using the Paper or Live API?

It paper. you try to cancel the order… and instead of cancelling it sends pending cancel - for hours. That’s a deal breaker

Same here today. Live account. Pending canceled orders prevent me from placing new orders to sell my owned stocks.

I’m still seeing these regularly in Paper trading. I can’t feel good about going live yet with alpaca.

Brian, if it makes you feel better, I see it often on Paper, but never seen it yet on Live, and I do trade almost every day

Worth noting I am experiencing this as well in paper account, but it’s necessary to test this integration properly. I can’t just go live and cross my fingers, and I see some reports of this happening on people’s live accounts. [image] Cancel stop gtc order immediately followed by cl…

Orders are showing PENDING CANCEL

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KD_A December 16, 2021, 5:15am 38

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Orders are showing PENDING CANCEL

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