DXtrade API POST /accounts/{accountCode}/close

POST/accounts/{accountCode}/closeUsers and Accounts

Close the open positions on an account, cancel its working orders, or both, in one step, for every instrument or for one.

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Independent and unofficialdemo.dx.tradechecked 12 Oct 2026

Read on 12 Oct 2026 in the DXtrade REST API specification on DXtrade's developer portal. The portal draws its pages in the browser from Markdown files it also serves directly, and the Markdown file of this page (DXtrade-REST-API.md) is what was read, with the model files it includes. The portal writes each address after a base address it fills in from its own settings, which on this portal is https://demo.dx.trade/dxsca-web. A broker or firm that offers DXtrade hosts its own, so the path here is what follows that base. The page writes the placeholder in the address as {account code} and names the parameter accountCode or account code. This record uses accountCode. The specification says every request needs authentication unless it says otherwise, and this section says the Authorization header should be included, which is why it is recorded as required. The page says the operation is complete when the reply comes back, and that a failure to cancel or close is answered 500 with error code 110. It names no reply body.

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Description
accountCoderequired	path	string	The account code, two strings joined by a colon in the form clearing:account, assigned by the platform. URL-encode it.
closePositions	body	boolean	Marked optional. Whether to close positions. The model says this or cancelOrders, or both, should be set to true.
cancelOrders	body	boolean	Marked optional. Whether to cancel working orders.
instrument	body	string	Marked optional. Limit the operation to this instrument's positions and orders.
comment	body	string	Marked optional. A free comment kept for audit.

Authentication headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorizationrequired	string	With token authentication, send DXAPI followed by the sessionToken from POST /login. With HMAC authentication the same header carries DXAPI with a principal, a timestamp and a hash, signed for each request as the specification describes. Placeholder only: never paste a real token into this site.

Request

Written from the method, path and parameters recorded on this page. No demo host is recorded as a plain address for this API, so the samples read the base address from an environment variable. Not executed against a live or demo account. Credentials are read from environment variables on your own machine and are never entered on this site. The request builder writes these same snippets, from the same record.

This call takes a request body. The record marks no body field as required, so the samples send an empty JSON object with a Content-Type of application/json (in Python, passing json= sets that header). Add the fields the call needs from the parameters above before the request can succeed.

Python

# Set DXTRADE_BASE_URL, DXTRADE_SESSION_TOKEN as environment variables first. Never paste real values into code.
# DXTRADE_SESSION_TOKEN holds the Authorization header that POST /login returns.
# No demo host is recorded as a plain address for this API, so the base address is read from DXTRADE_BASE_URL.
# Replace each {placeholder}, "..." and 0 with a real value before running.
# Optional and not shown: body fields closePositions, cancelOrders, instrument, comment.
import os
import requests

BASE_URL = os.environ["DXTRADE_BASE_URL"]
headers = {
    "Authorization": "DXAPI " + os.environ["DXTRADE_SESSION_TOKEN"],
}
body = {}
resp = requests.post(BASE_URL + "/accounts/{accountCode}/close", headers=headers, json=body, timeout=10)
resp.raise_for_status()
print(resp.json())

JavaScript

// Set DXTRADE_BASE_URL, DXTRADE_SESSION_TOKEN as environment variables first. Never paste real values into code.
// DXTRADE_SESSION_TOKEN holds the Authorization header that POST /login returns.
// No demo host is recorded as a plain address for this API, so the base address is read from DXTRADE_BASE_URL.
// Replace each {placeholder}, "..." and 0 with a real value before running.
// Optional and not shown: body fields closePositions, cancelOrders, instrument, comment.
// Run as a module, for example a .mjs file, on a Node version that has fetch built in.
const BASE_URL = process.env.DXTRADE_BASE_URL;
const res = await fetch(BASE_URL + "/accounts/{accountCode}/close", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "DXAPI " + process.env.DXTRADE_SESSION_TOKEN,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${res.status}`);
console.log(await res.json());

curl

# Set DXTRADE_BASE_URL, DXTRADE_SESSION_TOKEN as environment variables first. Never paste real values into code.
# DXTRADE_SESSION_TOKEN holds the Authorization header that POST /login returns.
# No demo host is recorded as a plain address for this API, so the base address is read from DXTRADE_BASE_URL.
# Replace each {placeholder}, "..." and 0 with a real value before running.
# Optional and not shown: body fields closePositions, cancelOrders, instrument, comment.
curl -X POST "$DXTRADE_BASE_URL/accounts/{accountCode}/close" \
  -H "Authorization: DXAPI $DXTRADE_SESSION_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Response

No mock response is recorded for this endpoint. Where the record says why, or names the fields of the reply, it does so in the note at the top of this page. That is a statement about this record, not about what the API returns: read the shape of the reply in the official reference.

DXtrade API errors you may meet

All DXtrade API error codes, including 73 more not listed here.