[Bug]: Fractional Orders Error (APIError: qty must be integer)

[markolonius]

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Current Behavior

Using code from example in creating-an-order does not work.

from alpaca.trading.client import TradingClient
from alpaca.trading.requests import MarketOrderRequest
from alpaca.trading.enums import OrderSide, TimeInForce

trading_client = TradingClient('api-key', 'secret-key', paper=True)

# preparing orders
market_order_data = MarketOrderRequest(
                    symbol="SPY",
                    qty=0.023,
                    side=OrderSide.BUY,
                    time_in_force=TimeInForce.DAY
                    )

# Market order
market_order = trading_client.submit_order(
                order_data=market_order_data
               )

Code above produces error:
alpaca.common.exceptions.APIError: {"code":40010001,"message":"qty must be integer"}

When trying notional instead of qty causes error:
alpaca.common.exceptions.APIError: {"code":40010001,"message":"qty is required"}

Expected Behavior

above code should produce a market order request

SDK Version I encountered this issue in

alpaca-py version: 0.5.4

Steps To Reproduce

1. poetry new market_order_test
2. poetry add alpaca-py
3. run following example with poetry run python test.py:
`
from alpaca.trading.client import TradingClient
from alpaca.trading.requests import MarketOrderRequest
from alpaca.trading.enums import OrderSide, TimeInForce

trading_client = TradingClient('api-key', 'secret-key', paper=True)

# preparing orders
market_order_data = MarketOrderRequest(
                    symbol="SPY",
                    qty=0.023,
                    side=OrderSide.BUY,
                    time_in_force=TimeInForce.DAY
                    )

# Market order
market_order = trading_client.submit_order(
                order_data=market_order_data
               )
`

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Anything else?

seems similar to alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-python#404

[markolonius]

I was able to resolve this issue by resetting the paper trade account. This issue may be marked as close.

Should be in docs possibly as a troubleshoot to reset paper trade account with this issue or other similar.

[aoot]

I was able to resolve this issue by resetting the paper trade account. This issue may be marked as close.

Should be in docs possibly as a troubleshoot to reset paper trade account with this issue or other similar.

Agree with @markolonius , I was having similar "qty is required" issue when notional value is specified on "BTC/USD" and the issue is gone when the paper trading account is reset.