Hello, I recently signed up for an Alpaca account, and I’m still getting my feet wet in the API and doing some practice paper trading. I logged on this morning to do just that, but the web application seems immensely slow and barely functional. Is something going on?
Tested from two different networks and in two different browsers (Chrome and new Edge). Before 9 EST, everything seemed fine, but now it is unusable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I’m unable to trade as well. From a day trading live stream I am watching it sounds like there are some nation-wide issues and a lot of traders are having problems getting orders filled with many different brokers.
You’ll just need to wait it out. This isn’t on your end. The market is doing crazy things right now that will be written about in history books, and Alpaca must not have been prepared to deal with it.
Looks like this morning Alpaca was not able to handle the order flow. I was hoping they would shine in conditions like today but alas they are just as bad as others. In fact, TD worked better this morning which is usually is not the case. Fidelity was the worst of all for me - they could not even load my positions or accept new orders.
Everything should be back up and running. The issue stemmed from Alpaca losing a feed to/from one of our execution partners. This backed up orders being sent to that venue. Our servers slowed down as they were waiting for responses from that venue. Not sure if it was a network problem or something on the execution partner side. This may have been the same issue other brokers experienced?
they are just as bad as others. In fact, TD worked better this morning which is usually is not the case. Fidelity was the worst of all for me - they could not even load my positions or accept new orders.