Keep getting requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url when trying to place options order. about pyetrade

[Robert-Zacchigna]

The client_order_id does need to be an int cast as a str. This is what i have working in my code without issue:

from random import randint

client_order_id = str(randint(1000000000, 9999999999))

[rockwoodquant]

I tried to use account_id instead of accountIdKey, i also tried to add in resp_type = "xml" in the function call. every time so far got to the same error...

[xabaddonx1]

Same issue here.

edit I figured it out, the expiry date format needs to be month-day-year

[rockwoodquant]

@xabaddonx1 I tried your suggestion, same error...

[xabaddonx1]

You must have another issue. I think the client order id needs to be unique for each order, i generate it with
clientOrderId = dt.datetime.timestamp(presentDate) * 1000000
maybe that's it.

[rockwoodquant]

Again, same error with this change... @xabaddonx1

[xozxro]

Any update on this?

Running into the identical issue and have taken identical steps with no luck. Is this a bug in PyEtrade or picky E*Trade request formatting?

Odd that it works for some... @xabaddonx1 would you mind sharing your working request code and param formatting for option orders? Would be a large help.

[xabaddonx1]

Here's mine, a couple things I thought of:

It could be the clientOrderId needs to be an int.

    resp = orders.place_option_order(
        resp_format='xml',
        accountId=brokerageAccountIdKey,
        symbol=symbol,
        callPut=callPut,
        expiryDate=expiryDate,
        strikePrice=formatNumber(strikePrice),
        orderAction=action,
        clientOrderId=int(clientOrderId),
        priceType=priceType,
        limitPrice=limitPrice,
        allOrNone=False,
        quantity=quantity,
        orderTerm="GOOD_FOR_DAY",
        marketSession='REGULAR')

i'm running the code below on strikePrice, I ran into an issue where sometimes it would say 12.0 and the api doesn't like that :

def formatNumber(num):
  if num % 1 == 0:
    return int(num)
  else:
    return num