[Question]: list_orders() Quantity

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Current Behavior

This is not a bug, it is a question. I can’t find any documentation or example about this.

I know how to show a list of orders:

api = alpaca.REST(api_key, api_secret, base_url, api_version='v2')  
ORDERS = api.list_orders()

But what I don’t know, is how to get the quantity of orders I have open right now. I don’t have the order id, I just have the symbol

For example: I want to know the exact qty of open orders I have to sell TSLA to avoid submitting another order.

Thanks in advance for your response.

Expected Behavior

Get orders qty

SDK Version I encountered this issue in

Alpaca-trade-api- == 2.0.0

Steps To Reproduce

Try to get the quantity of open orders for a given symbol (Ex: TSLA)

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Anything else?

No response

[drew887]

Ah sorry, did you mean the sum of the quantity field of all open orders? Not just the number of orders?

If that’s the case then that’s not really something we need to provide direct capabilities too into the SDK imo, as it would be common/easy enough to do it with general python functionality. IE reducing over the list of returned orders or using a for loop would be the first things that come to mind.

For example does something like :

from functools import reduce

api = alpaca.REST(api_key, api_secret, base_url, api_version='v2')  
orders = api.list_orders(symbols=['TSLA'])

total_qty = reduce(
      lambda result, order: result + int(order.qty),
      orders,
      0
)

give you the result you’re looking for?

[sshcli]

@drew887 Sorry man, my mistake len(ORDERS) is the man.

Thanks again and sorry for the inconvenience