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markupsafe==3.0.3
marshmallow==4.3.1
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multidict==6.9.1
multitasking==0.0.13
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# Celery 5.6 / Kombu 5.6 currently require redis-py <6.5. This client remains
# compatible with the Redis 8 server used by the production stack.
redis>=6.4.0,<6.5
+# CVE-2026-114613; 1.2.3+
+msgpack>=1.2.3,<2
# Durable background jobs and periodic maintenance
celery[redis]>=5.6.3,<6
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| Use AI research | [AI Research guide](product/AI_RESEARCH.md) | [Strategy workflow](product/STRATEGY_WORKFLOW.md) |
| Run a backtest | [Backtest Center guide](product/BACKTEST_CENTER.md) | [Strategy API V2 guide](trading/STRATEGY_DEV_GUIDE.md) |
| Prepare live trading | [Live-trading safety](trading/LIVE_TRADING_SAFETY.md) | [Security and reporting](security/README.md) |
+| Reconcile Alpaca execution fees | [English](trading/ALPACA_FEE_RECONCILIATION.md) | [简体中文](trading/ALPACA_FEE_RECONCILIATION_CN.md) |
| Prepare production | [Production hardening](deployment/PRODUCTION_HARDENING.md) | [Observability](deployment/OBSERVABILITY.md) |
| Deploy from AWS Marketplace | [English](deployment/AWS_MARKETPLACE_DEPLOYMENT.md) | [简体中文](deployment/AWS_MARKETPLACE_DEPLOYMENT_CN.md) |
| Release or scale runtime workers | [Distributed runtime scaling](deployment/DISTRIBUTED_RUNTIME_SCALING.md) | [V6 capacity plan](architecture/V6_HYPERSCALE_ARCHITECTURE_PLAN.md) |
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- [Strategy API V2 development](trading/STRATEGY_DEV_GUIDE.md)
- [Chart indicator development](trading/INDICATOR_DEV_GUIDE.md)
- [Interactive Brokers](trading/IBKR_TRADING_GUIDE_EN.md)
+- Alpaca execution-fee reconciliation: [English](trading/ALPACA_FEE_RECONCILIATION.md) / [简体中文](trading/ALPACA_FEE_RECONCILIATION_CN.md)
- [Live-trading safety](trading/LIVE_TRADING_SAFETY.md)
- [Public universes and point-in-time fundamentals (Chinese)](trading/PUBLIC_UNIVERSE_AND_FUNDAMENTALS_CN.md)
- [Fundamental-data preparation operations (Chinese)](strategies/FUNDAMENTAL_DATA_PREPARATION_CN.md)
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+# NVIDIA Inception announcement copy
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+## English
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+Open Byte Inc. has joined NVIDIA Inception.
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+## 中文
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+Open Byte Inc. 已加入 NVIDIA Inception。
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+## Social post
+
+Open Byte Inc. has joined NVIDIA Inception.
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+QuantDinger: https://github.com/OpenByteInc/QuantDinger
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+NVIDIA Inception: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/startups/
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+## 中文社交媒体文案
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+Open Byte Inc. 已加入 NVIDIA Inception。
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+QuantDinger:https://github.com/OpenByteInc/QuantDinger
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+NVIDIA Inception:https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/startups/
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+# Alpaca execution-fee reconciliation
+
+Alpaca can report an order fill before its authoritative fee evidence is available. QuantDinger therefore treats fill quantity and fee finality as separate states: the trade may already exist while its fee is still marked `pending`.
+
+## What the interface means
+
+| Display | Meaning |
+| --- | --- |
+| `Pending confirmation` | The fill is recorded, but no authoritative fee or zero-fee evidence has been received yet. |
+| A non-zero fee | Alpaca activity data reported an execution cost and QuantDinger stored it as an actual fee. |
+| `$0.00` after confirmation | Alpaca explicitly reported zero commission; this is stored as `actual_zero`, not guessed from a missing value. |
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+The top cost cards aggregate persisted execution records. A fee that is still pending is not silently converted to zero and is not included as an authoritative cost until reconciliation completes.
+
+## Reconciliation flow
+
+1. The order and its fill quantity are persisted as soon as the broker confirms execution.
+2. When the fill payload does not contain authoritative fee evidence, the trade remains `fee_status=pending`.
+3. The Alpaca synchronization worker retries completed orders that still contain pending-fee trades after the configured retry interval.
+4. Authoritative broker activity data is normalized into a currency-by-currency fee breakdown.
+5. QuantDinger converts the breakdown into quote currency where possible and updates the matching persisted trades proportionally by executed value.
+6. The trade is finalized as `actual` for a non-zero fee or `actual_zero` for an explicitly confirmed zero fee. The evidence source is stored as `rest`.
+
+This process is idempotent: only trades whose fee state is still pending are backfilled, so repeated synchronization does not charge the same fee twice.
+
+## Operational checks
+
+If a fee remains pending longer than expected:
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+1. Confirm the trading worker is healthy and has access to the same database as the API.
+2. Verify the Alpaca credential is active and can read orders and account activities.
+3. Confirm the pending order has an exchange order ID and a positive filled quantity.
+4. Check trading-worker logs for `alpaca_fill_sync`, authentication errors, or activity-query failures.
+5. Verify the relevant `qd_strategy_trades` row still has `fee_status=pending`; completed reconciliation should show `actual` or `actual_zero` and a `fee_source`.
+
+Do not manually replace a pending fee with zero merely because the broker has not returned it yet. That would turn missing evidence into false accounting data.
+
+## Scope
+
+This guide describes QuantDinger's Alpaca strategy-execution ledger. Broker statements and Alpaca's own account activity remain the final external source for account-level charges. Regulatory, activity, ADR, interest, and other broker-level costs may arrive independently from per-fill commission and are displayed separately when available.
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+# Alpaca 成交手续费对账
+
+Alpaca 可能先返回订单成交,再稍后提供权威的费用记录。因此,QuantDinger 将“已成交”和“手续费已确认”作为两个独立状态:交易记录已经出现时,手续费仍可能显示“待确认”。
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+## 页面状态说明
+
+| 页面显示 | 含义 |
+| --- | --- |
+| `待确认` | 成交已入账,但尚未收到权威的手续费或零手续费证据。 |
+| 非零手续费 | Alpaca 活动记录返回了成交费用,QuantDinger 已按实际费用入账。 |
+| 确认后的 `$0.00` | Alpaca 明确返回零佣金,系统以 `actual_zero` 保存,而不是把缺失值猜成零。 |
+
+顶部成本卡片汇总的是已持久化的执行记录。仍处于待确认状态的费用不会被静默当作零,也不会在对账完成前计入权威成本。
+
+## 对账流程
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+1. 券商确认成交后,系统立即保存订单和成交数量。
+2. 如果成交响应没有权威费用证据,交易保持 `fee_status=pending`。
+3. 超过配置的重试间隔后,Alpaca 同步 Worker 会重新检查仍含待确认费用的已完成订单。
+4. 系统把券商活动记录标准化为按币种拆分的费用明细。
+5. 在可转换时将费用换算为报价币种,并按成交金额比例回填到对应交易记录。
+6. 非零费用保存为 `actual`;明确确认的零费用保存为 `actual_zero`;证据来源记录为 `rest`。
+
+该过程具备幂等性:只有手续费状态仍为待确认的交易才会被回填,因此重复同步不会重复计费。
+
+## 运维排查
+
+如果手续费长时间保持待确认:
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+1. 确认 trading worker 正常,并且与 API 连接同一个数据库。
+2. 确认 Alpaca 凭据有效,且具备读取订单和账户活动的权限。
+3. 确认待处理订单已有券商订单 ID,且成交数量大于零。
+4. 在 trading-worker 日志中检查 `alpaca_fill_sync`、鉴权错误或活动查询失败。
+5. 检查对应 `qd_strategy_trades` 记录:未完成时为 `fee_status=pending`;完成后应为 `actual` 或 `actual_zero`,并带有 `fee_source`。
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+不要因为券商暂时未返回费用,就手动把待确认费用改成零。这会把“缺少证据”错误地变成“零费用”的会计事实。
+
+## 适用范围
+
+本文描述 QuantDinger 的 Alpaca 策略执行账本。账户层面的最终费用仍以 Alpaca 对账单和账户活动为外部权威来源。监管费、活动费、ADR 费、利息及其他券商级费用可能独立于单笔成交佣金到达,并在数据可用时分项展示。