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# Switch Risk Category

POST https://live.tradovateapi.com/v1/accountRiskStatus/switchriskcategory
Content-Type: application/json

### 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 requestsUse 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`.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.**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`)

Reference: https://partner.ninjatrader.com/eval/api/rest-api-endpoints/risks/switch-risk-category

## 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 SwitchRiskCategory.

- `accountIds` (list of long, required)
- `riskCategoryId` (long, required)

## Response

### 200

SimpleResponse

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

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "accountIds": [
    1
  ],
  "riskCategoryId": 1
}
```

**Response**

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

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://live.tradovateapi.com/v1/accountRiskStatus/switchriskcategory"

payload = {
    "accountIds": [1],
    "riskCategoryId": 1
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

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

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://live.tradovateapi.com/v1/accountRiskStatus/switchriskcategory';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"accountIds":[1],"riskCategoryId":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://live.tradovateapi.com/v1/accountRiskStatus/switchriskcategory"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"accountIds\": [\n    1\n  ],\n  \"riskCategoryId\": 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://live.tradovateapi.com/v1/accountRiskStatus/switchriskcategory")

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  \"accountIds\": [\n    1\n  ],\n  \"riskCategoryId\": 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://live.tradovateapi.com/v1/accountRiskStatus/switchriskcategory")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"accountIds\": [\n    1\n  ],\n  \"riskCategoryId\": 1\n}")
  .asString();
```

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

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://live.tradovateapi.com/v1/accountRiskStatus/switchriskcategory', [
  'body' => '{
  "accountIds": [
    1
  ],
  "riskCategoryId": 1
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

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

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://live.tradovateapi.com/v1/accountRiskStatus/switchriskcategory");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"accountIds\": [\n    1\n  ],\n  \"riskCategoryId\": 1\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

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

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

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://live.tradovateapi.com/v1/accountRiskStatus/switchriskcategory")! 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()
```