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Outage in Alpaca

Investigating position update issue after sell orders issue

Resolved Minor
August 12, 2026 - Started 5 days ago - Lasted about 9 hours
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Incident Report

We’re investigating an issue where some accounts may continue showing a position after it has been sold, which may allow an unintended second sell.
Components affected
Alpaca Positions API

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RESOLVED 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 06:49PM

We have validated that customer positions and balances are now accurate. This issue is now resolved. Thank you for your patience as we worked to ensure balances and positions for customers were correct.

MONITORING 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 04:45PM

We are continuing to conduct validation to ensure all account positions are accurately reconciled across our systems. Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue.

MONITORING 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 04:31PM

We are continuing to conduct validation to ensure all account positions are accurately reconciled across our systems. Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue.

MONITORING 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 04:10PM

We are continuing to conduct validation to ensure all account positions are accurately reconciled across our systems. Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue.

MONITORING 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 03:42PM

We are continuing to conduct validation to ensure all account positions are accurately reconciled across our systems. Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue.

MONITORING 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 01:52PM

We are continuing to conduct validation to ensure all account positions are accurately reconciled across our systems. Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue.

MONITORING 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 01:23PM

We are currently conducting validation to ensure all account positions are accurately reconciled across our systems. We will provide a final update once these verification steps are complete.

MONITORING 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 01:02PM

We have corrected the position display issue for affected accounts. We are now reviewing a limited number of accounts that may temporarily reflect short positions as a result of earlier incorrect position data.

MONITORING 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 11:07AM

Recovery process is complete now ,accounts should not be seeing the open position of symbol they have sold.

IDENTIFIED 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 10:54AM

Recovery process is still in the progress , we will update once it is complete.

IDENTIFIED 4 days ago - at 08/12/2026 10:36AM

We are taking correction actions on affected accounts and recovery process is in progress, we will update once process is finished.

IDENTIFIED 5 days ago - at 08/12/2026 10:22AM

We have isolated the cause of the position data discrepancies and are currently preparing plan for a corrective reconciliation to update the affected accounts

INVESTIGATING 5 days ago - at 08/12/2026 10:15AM

We are still investigating the issue , will share the update soon.

INVESTIGATING 5 days ago - at 08/12/2026 09:39AM

We’re investigating an issue where some accounts may continue showing a position after it has been sold, which may allow an unintended second sell.

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