# Paper Trading impossible price?

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**Category:** Alpaca Trading\
**Created:** [August 17, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/paper-trading-impossible-price/6602 "2021-08-17T20:59:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brian\_Rowe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/brian_rowe/32/2322_2.png) [@Brian\_Rowe](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Brian_Rowe)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/paper-trading-impossible-price/6602/1 "2021-08-17T20:59:46Z")

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I had a trade in a Paper Trading account for symbol CCRN on 8/16 execute at 17.52 at 9:30am. When I look at the 15min candle for the 16th, CCRN was never below $18. How am I supposed to think about this trade?  
Its important, because there was a stop loss, that doesn’t look like it would be met according to the bar data, and the trades should have been for a gain, but instead at the very open, it stopped out a price never traded in the real world, so far as I can see. I have a paid data account, but I am using my paper keys for testing before trying to go to production. I’m not comfortable going to live trading because I keep finding cases like these that don’t make sense. Trying to understand if this is a feature of Paper trading… maybe in production I would have gotten this price below $18, and the low would have reflected that based on the order stack? I’m just not sure what to think.  
Appreciate any help.

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**Author:** ![AlwaysTraining](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/alwaystraining/32/3600_2.png) [@AlwaysTraining](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/AlwaysTraining)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/paper-trading-impossible-price/6602/2 "2022-01-20T05:34:19Z")

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I have the same exact question. When I was debugging my best and worst paper trades I noticed some seemingly implausible fill prices on orders. I would check Yahoo, Google, TradingView, etc, no one showed a bar going near to where paper trading gave me a price. I would love to know if you found this also to be the case in live actual trading? I am currently trying market orders, odd frationable lots, so that probably doesn’t help, but the prices I have seen are ridiculous.