Switch Risk Category

### Switch the active risk category for one or more accounts. **Available to:** Organization administrators **Environments:** Demo, Live **[Rate Limit](/overview/core-concepts/rate-limits):** 5,000 requests per hour, 1-second back-off, counts all requests Use this endpoint to switch the risk category of up to 10,000 accounts in a single request. Accounts that already have the target risk category are skipped. [Risk categories](/overview/prop-firm-management/risk-management/pre-trade-risk#risk-categories) are initially defined by your [Template Account](/overview/prop-firm-management/create-and-manage-users-and-accounts#template-account-id) and applied at creation, but you can adjust risk categories after by contacting Eval Support. To view the available risk categories for your organization, call `/riskCategory/list`. <Warning>Switch risk categories outside of trading hours or when affected accounts have no open positions. Switching risk categories re-evaluates open positions, potentially causing open positions to be auto-liquidated.</Warning> **Common Failure Scenarios** - `"Empty accountIds"`: the `accountIds` array is empty - `"Only 10000 accounts are allowed in single operation"`: the request exceeds the 10,000-account limit - The specified `riskCategoryId` does not exist (returns `HTTP 404`) - One or more account IDs do not exist (returns `HTTP 404`)