Paper buying power

Alpaca Account Troubleshooting
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The buying_power and daytrading_buying_power do not seem to be updating in the Paper account using the REST calls. It varies slightly after buying a stock, but doesn’t seem to go down correctly as more stock is purchased. It’s not zero - but does not decrement correctly.
This has worked in the past… just recently started not working.

buyingPower = AlpacaAccountGET(“/v2/account”, “buying_power”)

Function AlpacaAccountGET(endpoint As String, element As String) As String
Dim req As MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP60
Dim key_header_name, secret_header_name, liveURL, paperURL As String
Dim Json As Object
On Error GoTo e

Set req = New MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP60

key_header_name = "APCA-API-KEY-ID"
secret_header_name = "APCA-API-SECRET-KEY"

    paperURL = "https://paper-api.alpaca.markets"

req.Open "GET", paperURL & endpoint, False

req.SetRequestHeader key_header_name, key_id
req.SetRequestHeader secret_header_name, Secret_key

req.Send

Set Json = JsonConverter.ParseJson(req.ResponseText)
arrayLen = Json.Count

If arrayLen > 0 Then
    AlpacaAccountGET = Json(element)
Else
    AlpacaAccountGET = req.ResponseText
End If

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