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I am seeing this parroted everywhere this comes up and it is very unlikely to be the case. For one we have no idea what that API call is doing. The date paramet
by thefreeman 7y ago
I am seeing this parroted everywhere this comes up and it is very unlikely to be the case. For one we have no idea what that API call is doing. The date parameter could be an upper bound, ie. it's just asking for all of the most recent data. In addition, Robinhood was up over the weekend, after the leap year occurred, and was even available early on Monday before the market opened.
- notyourday 7y agoRobinhood only trades in the US and the US markets are closed on Saturday and Sunday which means there were no live orders on those days which in turn means that certain code paths were not executed and errors were not thrown on Saturday and Sunday the two days when it would have been detected.