order_buy_limit extended hours "Ensure that there are no more than 8 digits before the decimal point."

[justindavies]

Love the library first off. I usually place fractional shares during market hours, but have been experimenting with extended hours trading with full shares.

When I try this (when it's extended trading):

ret = r.order_buy_limit(account_number="XXXXXX", symbol="BBCP", quantity=1, timeInForce='gfd', limitPrice="8.42000000", extendedHours=True)

I get the following error:

{'price': ['Ensure that there are no more than 8 digits before the decimal point.']}

If I do the same trade using the web, it all goes through fine. The price I used was the same that was in the payload on the web just to confirm, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.

Thanks!

[joeld1]

@justindavies I think this might be related to #429 ,

When you call

r.order_buy_limit

which has a signature of:

order_buy_limit(symbol, quantity, limitPrice, account_number=None, timeInForce='gtc', extendedHours=False, jsonify=True)

That method calls

order(symbol, quantity, "buy", account_number, limitPrice, None, timeInForce, extendedHours, jsonify)

When your parameters are passed in, the resulting call is

order("BBCP", 1, "buy", "XXXXXX", "8.42000000", None, 'gfd', True, True)

The original signature for the order method is

order(symbol, quantity, side, limitPrice=None, stopPrice=None, account_number=None, timeInForce='gtc', extendedHours=False, jsonify=True, market_hours='regular_hours')

When your parameters are passed in according to position, you get:

order(symbol="BBCP", quantity=1, side="buy", limitPrice="XXXXXX", stopPrice="8.42000000", account_number=None, timeInForce='gfd', extendedHours=True, jsonify=True, market_hours='regular_hours')

The order method calls

round_price(limitPrice)

which in your case is

round_price("XXXXXX")

...

@justindavies I think that's what's causing your error. In order to avoid it, I would probably just use the order method and explicitly pass in your parameters while defining side = 'buy', stopPrice=None.

...
@jmfernandes , would it be unreasonable to refactor the methods to call the order method using keyword arguments instead of positional arguments?

Thanks, I enjoy your repo and would love to help out however possible :) !

[justindavies]

Perfect, that sorted the problem for me and the Order is accepted in extended hours trading. Only problem now is whenever I submit that order, a few seconds later I get a message in RH saying the order has failed due to an error:

Submit Order:
We've received your limit order to buy 5 shares of MTRX through your brokerage account at a maximum of $8.79 per share.

If this order isn't filled by the end of extended hours today (6:00pm ET), it will expire.

A few seconds later:
Update 😧 Your order to buy 5 shares of MTRX through your brokerage account failed due to an error, and wasn't submitted to the market.

[joeld1]

That's strange. I usually also provide this and they go through

extendedHours = True, 
market_hours='all_day_hours',
timeInForce='gtc'

[mw66]

is it possible to get the extended hour stock price?

Any code example?

Thanks

[joeld1]

It should be possible using the get_latest_price method. get_latest_price already includes extended hours by default.