# Move a resting order's price

`POST https://app.skylit.ai/api/nexus/v1/trading/accounts/{account}/orders/{orderId}/modify`

API: Nexus.

Moves a working limit or stop order (or a bracket's stop or target) to a new `price`, like dragging it on the Nexus chart. Only the price can change. To change the size, cancel the order and place a new one.

No live price answers `503 no_live_price` and the order stays where it was. A test order can't be moved (`400 test_modify_unavailable`): cancel it and send a new test order at the new price.

## Authentication

Send your Skylit API key as a bearer token: `Authorization: Bearer <key>`. No other header is accepted.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `account` | path | string | yes | `practice`, `evaluation` or `funded` (when you have exactly one running), or a futures account id from capabilities. |
| `orderId` | path | string (uuid) | yes | The order's id, from the open, the working list or the history. |

## Request body

`application/json`

```json
{
  "price": 0,
  "test": false
}
```

## Example request

```bash
curl "https://app.skylit.ai/api/nexus/v1/trading/accounts/practice/orders/b2c3d4e5-f6a7-4b8c-9d0e-1f2a3b4c5d6e/modify" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SKYLIT_API_KEY"
```

## Responses

### 200

The order at its new price, with its bracket.

The limit order, moved.:

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "b2c3d4e5-f6a7-4b8c-9d0e-1f2a3b4c5d6e",
    "assetClass": "futures",
    "source": "api",
    "account": {
      "id": "8d7c6b5a-4e3f-4a2b-9c1d-0e1f2a3b4c5d",
      "kind": "evaluation",
      "name": "50K Evaluation"
    },
    "symbol": "NQZ26",
    "side": "buy",
    "quantity": 1,
    "role": "entry",
    "orderType": "limit",
    "status": "working",
    "limitPrice": 25295,
    "placedAt": "2026-10-09T14:36:00Z"
  }
}
```

### 400

The request was refused before anything was traded. Codes: `bad_request`, `bad_contract`, `invalid_quantity`, `invalid_price`, `unsupported_asset_class`, `unsupported_order_type`, `only_market_orders`, `test_orders_unavailable`, `test_modify_unavailable`.

A typo in the body.:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "bad_request",
    "message": "Unknown field \"quantitty\". See the trades API docs for the fields you can send."
  }
}
```

### 401

No key, or a key that isn't valid. Codes: `missing_api_key`, `invalid_api_key`.

No key sent.:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "missing_api_key",
    "message": "Send your Skylit API key in the Authorization header: Authorization: Bearer YOUR_SKYLIT_API_KEY."
  }
}
```

### 403

The key works but the account can't do this. Codes: `account_suspended`, `nexus_access_denied`, `futures_access_denied`.

The account doesn't include Nexus.:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "nexus_access_denied",
    "message": "This Skylit account doesn't include Nexus, so it can't place Nexus trades."
  }
}
```

### 404

Not on your account. Codes: `trade_not_found`, `account_not_found`, `order_not_found`.

Not your trade, or no such trade.:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "trade_not_found",
    "message": "No trade with that id on your account."
  }
}
```

### 409

The order clashes with what you hold or sent before. Codes: `duplicate_position` (with `tradeId`), `trade_closed`, `open_position_limit`, `client_order_id_used`, `request_in_progress`, `account_locked`, `account_busy`, `account_ended`, `order_not_working`.

You already hold this contract.:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "duplicate_position",
    "message": "You already hold an open position on this contract. Close it first, or add to it in Nexus.",
    "tradeId": "6f1c2a4e-8b1d-4c39-9a51-2d7e0b3c9f10"
  }
}
```

### 422

Read fine, but the market or the account says no. Codes: `market_closed`, `contract_expired`, `contract_not_offered`, `price_outside_market`, `insufficient_buying_power`, `account_not_tradable`, `account_ambiguous`, `reduce_only_would_open`, `order_refused`.

Outside market hours.:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "market_closed",
    "message": "The market is closed for this contract right now, so nothing was filled."
  }
}
```

### 429

Over a rate limit. Wait `Retry-After` seconds, then retry. Code: `rate_limited`.

Headers: `Retry-After`, `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining`.

Too many writes from this key.:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "rate_limited",
    "message": "Too many requests (limit 30). Slow down and retry in 12 seconds."
  }
}
```

### 503

Try again in a moment (honour `Retry-After` when it's sent). Codes: `stale_quote`, `no_live_price`, `rules_pending`, `unavailable`, `auth_unavailable`, `access_check_unavailable`, `api_keys_unavailable`, `trades_api_disabled`.

Headers: `Retry-After`.

No live price right now.:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "no_live_price",
    "message": "There's no live price for this contract right now, so nothing was filled. Try again in a moment."
  }
}
```