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# Create Account Lockout

POST https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/createaccountlockout
Content-Type: application/json

### Lock an account for a specified duration.

**Available to:** All authenticated users (own account only)

**Environments:** Demo

**[Rate Limit](/overview/core-concepts/rate-limits):** 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**

| `errorText`                                                                                                                                  | Trigger                                                                      |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `"Unauthorized: only the eval user may initiate a trading lockout. Org admins and super admins not permitted to create lockouts"`            | The caller is not the account owner                                          |
| `"Account {id} already has an active lockout for user {userId}. New lockout requests are not permitted until the existing lockout expires."` | The account already has an active lockout                                    |
| `"Account not found."`                                                                                                                       | The `accountId` doesn't match an existing account                            |
| `"Tradovate Prop required"`                                                                                                                  | The user's organization doesn't have the required Tradovate Prop entitlement |
| `"durationMinutes must be greater than 0"`                                                                                                   | The `durationMinutes` value is 0                                             |

**Related Endpoints**

* Use [`accountLockoutStatus`](/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/account-lockout-status) to check whether accounts are currently locked
* Use [`expireAccountLockout`](/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/expire-account-lockout) to unlock a single account early (organization administrators only)
* Use [`expireAllAccountLockouts`](/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/expire-all-account-lockouts) to unlock all accounts for a user (organization administrators only)

Reference: https://partner.ninjatrader.com/connect/api/rest-api-endpoints/users/create-account-lockout

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a CreateAccountLockout.

- `accountId` (long, required)
- `durationMinutes` (integer, required)

## Response

### 200

AccountLockoutResponse

- `errorText` (string, optional) — Non-empty if the request failed
- `ok` (boolean, optional)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "accountId": 1,
  "durationMinutes": 1
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "errorText": "string",
  "ok": true
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/createaccountlockout"

payload = {
    "accountId": 1,
    "durationMinutes": 1
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/createaccountlockout';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"accountId":1,"durationMinutes":1}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/createaccountlockout"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"accountId\": 1,\n  \"durationMinutes\": 1\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/createaccountlockout")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"accountId\": 1,\n  \"durationMinutes\": 1\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/createaccountlockout")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"accountId\": 1,\n  \"durationMinutes\": 1\n}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/createaccountlockout', [
  'body' => '{
  "accountId": 1,
  "durationMinutes": 1
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/createaccountlockout");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"accountId\": 1,\n  \"durationMinutes\": 1\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [
  "accountId": 1,
  "durationMinutes": 1
] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://demo.tradovateapi.com/v1/user/createaccountlockout")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```