status:active but still "Failed to authneticate"

[gilbh]

I really like your scalping strategy and Python implementation!

I have a live account and a paper account, and regularly work with Polygon. However, when I try to run your code with my paper account, I get the following error:

c:\users\gil\envs\utils\lib\site-packages\alpaca_trade_api\stream2.py in _connect(self)
     44             status = msg.get('data').get('status')
     45             if status != 'authorized':
---> 46                 raise ValueError(
     47                     (f"Invalid Alpaca API credentials, Failed to "
     48                      f"authenticate: {msg}")

ValueError: Invalid Alpaca API credentials, Failed to authenticate: {'stream': 'authorization', 'data': {'action': 'authenticate', 'message': 'access key verification failed', 'status': 'unauthorized'}}

-- this is despite the fact my account is active:

ipdb> api.get_account()
Account({   'account_blocked': False,
    'account_number': 'PA28K7UTZQSB',
    'buying_power': '160000',
    'cash': '40000',
    'created_at': '2020-12-23T01:29:09.496085Z',
    'currency': 'USD',
    'daytrade_count': 0,
    'daytrading_buying_power': '160000',
    'equity': '40000',
    'id': 'e3d0cd29-078a-484e-856b-6819912ca25d',
    'initial_margin': '0',
    'last_equity': '40000',
    'last_maintenance_margin': '0',
    'long_market_value': '0',
    'maintenance_margin': '0',
    'multiplier': '4',
    'pattern_day_trader': False,
    'portfolio_value': '40000',
    'regt_buying_power': '80000',
    'short_market_value': '0',
    'shorting_enabled': True,
    'sma': '0',
    'status': 'ACTIVE',
    'trade_suspended_by_user': False,
    'trading_blocked': False,
    'transfers_blocked': False})

Can you please advise?

Thanks, Gil