Alpaca incident

Overnight Trading Symbol Status Update Issue

Resolved after 1 hour 16 minutes, affecting Orders API and broker.assets.get and 1 more, on May 15, 2026.

postmortem May 15, 2026, 06:06 PM UTC

On May 15, we identified an issue affecting overnight trading. Some securities that are generally eligible for overnight trading were temporarily ineligible for overnight trading, preventing clients from placing or modifying orders for those symbols during the overnight session. ‌ Our engineering team identified an issue resulting from receiving an erroneous source file form our execution venue and manually updated the system restoring overnight trading for the impacted symbols... Regular market-hours trading, other asset classes, account balances, positions, and prior transactions are not impacted. ‌ Thank you for your patience and understanding as we worked to restore services.

Started
May 15, 2026, 05:14 AM UTC
Resolved
May 15, 2026, 06:30 AM UTC
Duration
1h 16m
Detected by Pingoru
May 15, 2026, 05:14 AM UTC

Affected components

Orders APIbroker.assets.getAssets APIbroker.assets.getTrade Update StreamingNon Tradable ActivitesFractional Ordersbroker.accounts.activities.get

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 15, 2026, 05:14 AM UTC

    We have identified an issue where certain securities available for overnight trading are incorrectly marked as restricted. Impact Clients may be unable to place trades for specific newly listed overnight-tradable securities. Regular trading hours and other asset classes remain unaffected.

  2. identified May 15, 2026, 05:26 AM UTC

    We identified a likely root cause. The team is restoring the correct configuration. Investigation is ongoing, and we will share another update once recovery is confirmed.

  3. monitoring May 15, 2026, 06:02 AM UTC

    Mitigation measures have been implemented, and services are showing signs of recovery. We are currently validating the overnight trading symbol set and transitioning into a monitoring phase while final verification checks are completed.

  4. resolved May 15, 2026, 06:30 AM UTC

    After monitoring we are no longer seeing issues. Overnight trading symbol eligibility appears to be operating normally.

  5. postmortem May 15, 2026, 06:06 PM UTC

    On May 15, we identified an issue affecting overnight trading. Some securities that are generally eligible for overnight trading were temporarily ineligible for overnight trading, preventing clients from placing or modifying orders for those symbols during the overnight session. ‌ Our engineering team identified an issue resulting from receiving an erroneous source file form our execution venue and manually updated the system restoring overnight trading for the impacted symbols... Regular market-hours trading, other asset classes, account balances, positions, and prior transactions are not impacted. ‌ Thank you for your patience and understanding as we worked to restore services.

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