Unable To Create BracketOrder in Alpaca

[ktaneja]

Unable To Create BracketOrder in Alpaca

[jbaron]

Not sure it is wise to automatically make bracket orders not using extendedHours if the config says you want extendedHours.
This might confuse less experienced traders and people expect orders to be placed when they are not.

However, perhaps the default in config should be false for extendedHours. The main reason it is set to true is that I'm in Europe and a lot of testing is done on outside regular trading hours :)

As a short term solution, you can always use the following when creating your broker instance:

 val broker = AlpacaBroker {
        extendedHours = false
  }

[ktaneja]

extendedHours is a part of AlpacaConfig but is hard coded. So the ask is to make it configurable.

Alpaca live trading does not allow extended hours trading for bracket orders (while paper trading has no issue). So it may be better to add a check before creating a bracket order.

From Alpaca Docs

Extended hours are not supported. extended_hours must be “false” or omitted.

[jbaron]

I'll some logic so you can also configure it via a property file. Then it is the same as the public/private keys. I also put the default to false, that is the safer option.

But just to be sure: you can already configure it in your code using the following pattern:

val broker = AlpacaBroker {
        extendedHours = false
  }

From then on the BracketOrder uses automaticallyfalse. So nothing is stoping you from using bracket orders right now (unless I still misunderstand something?).

[jbaron]

As usual, the latest snapshot now has the following included:

1. Default for extended hours is set to false
2. Next to in your own code, you can also configure this attribute via property files.

data class AlpacaConfig(
    var publicKey: String = Config.getProperty("alpaca.public.key", ""),
    var secretKey: String = Config.getProperty("alpaca.secret.key", ""),
    var accountType: AccountType = AccountType.PAPER,
    var dataType: DataType = DataType.IEX,
    var extendedHours: Boolean = Config.getProperty("alpaca.extendedhours", false),
)