Create Account Lockout

Lock an account for a specified duration.

Available to: All authenticated users (own account only)

Environments: Demo

Rate Limit: No endpoint-specific limit

Traders can voluntarily lock themselves out of trading on a specific account for a set period. This helps traders protect their progress, whether that means locking in a winning day or stepping away before losses deepen.

• Traders can’t cancel their own lockouts. Once activated, the lockout stays in effect until it expires or an organization administrator manually unlocks it.
• Account-level lockout. Only the specified account is locked. Other accounts belonging to the same user are not affected.
• Closes positions and blocks orders. When a trader activates a lockout, open positions on the account are liquidated and new orders are rejected until the lockout expires.

Common Failure Scenarios

• The caller doesn’t own the account (organization administrators can’t create lockouts)
• The user’s organization doesn’t have the Tradovate Prop entitlement
• The account already has an active lockout
• The account doesn’t exist
• The durationMinutes value is 0

All responses return HTTP 200. Errors are indicated by ok: false and an errorText field in the response body.

Error Messages

Related Endpoints

• Use accountLockoutStatus to check whether accounts are currently locked
• Use expireAccountLockout to unlock a single account early (organization administrators only)
• Use expireAllAccountLockouts to unlock all accounts for a user (organization administrators only)