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:

The details of the structures for ASTrades, CapacityTrades, and EnergyTrades are described in Ancillary Service Trade (AST), Capacity Trade (CT), and Energy Trade (ET), respectively. The following is an XML of an unconfirmed trade’s payload:

<UnconfirmedTrades xmlns="http://www.ercot.com/schema/2007-06/nodal/ews">
    <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.