Add `source` to account activity struct.

[petric3]

Primarily, I do algo trading, but also some investing or swing trading. When analyzing account activity for a day, it's hard to distinguish whether an order was placed from alpaca dashboard or via API, which is nicely visible and distinguishable from the dashboard. Could you add Source to the AccountActivity struct, so we can do some filtering? Or perhaps there's a work around, which I'm not aware of? Thank you kindly 🙏

[gnvk]

The screenshot you shared actually comes from the Orders UI, calling the Orders endpoint, not the account activities. Strangely, the field is not documented though. Let me ask around this internally for you.

[petric3]

@gnvk any follow up on this topic? Especially on how to know via API weather an order was submitted via access KEY or alpaca dashboard. Thank you 🙏

[gnvk]

@gnvk any follow up on this topic? Especially on how to know via API weather an order was submitted via access KEY or alpaca dashboard. Thank you 🙏

I just wanted to let you know that I didn't forget to this. The issue is that this field is really not meant for external consumption and it's very possible that we're going to change it in the future. That's why it's not documented. Because of this, I'm pretty sure it's not a good idea to expose it in its current form.

[smfani]

I was looking for exactly the same thing. @gnvk is there any way to distinguish weather an order was submitted via Alpaca dashboard or API? I have my own logs, but just for recent weeks and also it's not as reliable as done professionally.

[ajdasm0]

Myself also interested in this very much.

For example, I made several investment buys and sells for NVDA (which I did via dashboard) + bot trading NVDA actively via API. I got an error in my bot and have discrepancy between alpaca position and my trading bot. Hence, I need to subtract the investment part, so how to do it as API doesn't hold this information and on dashboard the history is limited (on example below can see only for past week of orders/trades)?

This is just an example, I have 100+ symbols opened, cannot do some serious work like this. Would be good if alpaca addresses this issue ASAP.