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UnconfirmedTrades

UnconfirmedTrades

This section describes interfaces used to retrieve the list if trades that the submitting QSE have been identified as the counter party in a trade, but have not yet entered a matching energy, capacity, or ancillary services trade. If a matching trade is not entered by the close of the market, the trade is rejected.

Message Element Value
Header/Verb get
Header/Noun UnconfirmedTrades
Header/Source Market participant ID
Header/UserID ID of user
Request/TradingDate Trading date

The corresponding response messages would use the following message fields:

Message Element Value
Header/Verb reply
Header/Noun UnconfirmedTrades
Header/Source ERCOT
Reply/ReplyCode Reply code, success=OK, error=ERROR or FATAL
Reply/Error Error message, if error encountered
Payload UnconfirmedTrades

The payload structure is described by the following diagram:

UnconfirmedTrades Structure

The details of the structures for ASTrades, CapacityTrades, and EnergyTrades are described in sections 3.3.5, 3.3.6, and 3.3.12, respectively. The following is an XML of an unconfirmed trade’s payload:

<UnconfirmedTrades>
    <ASTrade>
        <mRID>ACME.20080101.AST.*ASType*.*BuyerQSE*.*SellerQSE*></mRID>
    </ASTrade>
    <CapacityTrade>
        <mRID>XYZ.20080101.CT.*BuyerQSE*.*SellerQSE*></mRID>
    </CapacityTrade>
    <EnergyTrade>
        <mRID>ACME.20080101.ET.*SettlementPoint*.*BuyerQSE*.*SellerQSE*></mRID>
    </EnergyTrade>
</UnconfirmedTrades>

The mRID used in the message is the mRID for the trade that was submitted by the counterparty.