Hey everyone, I’ve been paper trading with a script for a few weeks and today encountered a strange error I haven’t seen before. My script purchased 12 shares of WINS, which has been priced in the $30-$50 range lately, and hasn’t gone above $64 in the last year. However, it looks like they were purchased for $150.00 a share. Does anyone know why this may have happened? My script doesn’t buy stocks priced above $50 a share and has never in the past. On top, WINS was never priced anywhere near $150 today (the day I bought). Is there a rule I’m unaware of or is this an unexpected error?
In this screenshot you can see history for WINS, it never skyrocketed to $150 today (and double checked with Yahoo finance). You can see in the bottom right each share was bought for $150.00 flat which seems suspicious to me.
Does anyone know what’s going on here?
Thanks!
I had this happen to me on live trading today, the real market value was $4 per share lower than that I got charged. Why is this happening? I had a look on TradingView and the price there was never that high???
@Heiko_Horn was there a stock split? I had something similar happen to me recently but the cause in my case was a stock split. Support@alpaca.markets should be able to give you a definite answer.
If that is the issue, I’m wondering why this keeps occurring at a seemingly out-of-sync date on Alpaca, compared to other brokerages.
