App prices

When you’re signed in and looking at Positions, Compliance, or Rebalance, Allocait shows a market quote for each symbol you hold. The statuses on Home and Compliance are computed from these quotes. Market data is provided by Twelve Data, and the app credits it beside the freshness label. This page covers the app only. An agent or script supplies its own prices; see Prices.

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How prices update

While the app is open in front of you, Allocait follows your non-cash holdings and watchlist symbols, up to the limit below. Followed symbols update in these ways:

• Streamed when available. Symbols on the live feed update as the provider sends trades. The provider can delay or skip them, and not every symbol is on the feed.
• Refreshed when older than about five minutes. If a symbol isn’t on the live feed, or the feed is unavailable, Allocait can fetch a new quote once the stored price is about five minutes old and its market is open. For US stocks and ETFs, that means the regular session, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern. A refresh can be late or skipped when the data provider’s limits apply.
• Last quote when the market is closed. After a market closes, Allocait can fetch one more quote for a symbol that has had no update since the close, then shows the last quote it has until the market reopens. Crypto markets don’t close.
• Closing price once a day. After the US market closes on a trading day, Allocait aims to record a closing price for each symbol you hold or watch, even if the app was closed all day. That price is the baseline for day change. The daily compliance check that feeds webhooks runs after the closes are recorded. A symbol the provider can’t price that day keeps its earlier quote.

Mutual funds publish one price a day, so Allocait doesn’t stream or refresh them during the day. It records their price at the daily close when the provider returns one. Each account follows up to 150 symbols live at once. Symbols past that limit aren’t followed live.

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Which symbols the app supports

The symbol search lists US-listed stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and mutual funds, plus forex, crypto, and commodity pairs. A symbol outside that list, or one Allocait doesn’t recognize, comes back as “No match for this symbol.” Over-the-counter (OTC) securities are outside the list. A research label is a name you keep for recorded research. It isn’t a symbol, so Allocait never quotes it, follows it live, or takes it as a holding. A Watchlists row for one reads Research label where a price would be. A price for one appears only if you or your agent supply it. See Labels. These are different from the freshness labels.

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Partly priced classes

In the app, a class with some priced and some unpriced holdings still gets a status from the priced ones, with the coverage shown, for example “Based on 3 of 4 positions” on Compliance.

• A class with a band and no priced holding reads Waiting on a price.
• A class with no band reads Not monitored.

An agent never sees a partly priced verdict, because the checks require a price for every non-cash holding. See Status words for the statuses. An option counts at the mark you recorded, never at a quote from Allocait. See Options.

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