# Move the stop to break-even

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

API: Nexus.

Moves the position's stop to the first tick at or past break-even (your entry plus the round-trip commission), and makes the stop if there isn't one. It's the BE button on the Futures Desk.

It's refused (`422 order_refused`) while price hasn't cleared that level yet, because a stop there would fill at once, and when your stop is already at or past it: break-even never loosens a stop. Safe to send twice.

## 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`, `agent` (your bot's account), `evaluation` or `funded` (when you have exactly one running), or a futures account id from capabilities. |

## Request body

`application/json`

```json
{
  "ticker": "NQ"
}
```

## Example request

```bash
curl "https://app.skylit.ai/api/nexus/v1/trading/accounts/practice/breakeven" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SKYLIT_API_KEY"
```

## Responses

### 200

The stop, working at break-even.

Shape (placeholder values):

```json
{
  "data": {
    "account": {
      "id": "string",
      "kind": "practice",
      "name": "string"
    },
    "order": {
      "id": "string",
      "assetClass": "futures",
      "source": "string",
      "account": {
        "id": "string",
        "kind": "practice",
        "name": "string"
      },
      "symbol": "string",
      "side": "buy",
      "quantity": 0,
      "role": "entry",
      "orderType": "market",
      "status": "working",
      "statusReason": "string",
      "limitPrice": 0,
      "stopPrice": 0,
      "trailingDistance": 0,
      "fillPrice": 0,
      "placedAt": "string",
      "filledAt": "string",
      "triggeredAt": "string",
      "parentId": "string",
      "bracket": [
        {}
      ],
      "clientOrderId": "string",
      "keyId": "string",
      "commissionCents": 0,
      "realizedPnlCents": 0,
      "test": false
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "fill": {},
    "clientOrderId": "string",
    "idempotentReplay": false,
    "test": false,
    "notChecked": [
      "string"
    ],
    "discordRouting": {},
    "nothingToClose": false,
    "stillOpen": [
      "string"
    ],
    "tradeId": "string",
    "triggerOn": "string",
    "underlyingPrice": 0,
    "marketOpen": false,
    "firesNow": false,
    "wouldFireNow": false,
    "wouldFillNow": false,
    "wouldTriggerNow": false,
    "wouldRestBecause": "string",
    "alreadyCancelled": false
  }
}
```

### 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`, `limit_price_required` (a limit with no `limitPrice`), `invalid_limit_price` (not in cents, or outside 0.01 to 99,999.99 for options or 999,999.99 for stocks), `stop_price_required` (a stop with no `stopPrice`), `invalid_stop_price` (not in cents, or outside 0.01 to 999,999.99), `invalid_take_profit`, `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`: add to it instead), `trade_closed`, `open_position_limit` (open positions plus resting opens through the API are at 50), `working_order_limit` (50 options and stock orders already resting through the API), `position_size_limit` (an add would take the position past 1,000 contracts or 100,000 shares), `client_order_id_used`, `request_in_progress`, `account_locked`, `account_busy`, `account_ended`, `order_not_working` (it already filled, expired, or was cancelled or rejected), `stop_triggered` (a stop that's been set off is filling now, so it can't be cancelled or changed).

You already hold this contract.:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "duplicate_position",
    "message": "You already hold an open position on this contract. Add to it with POST /api/nexus/v1/trades/{id}/adds (the id is tradeId), or close it first.",
    "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`, `order_rejected` (a resting order that tried to fill right away and couldn't; `orderId` points to it). A resting order that can't be covered answers `insufficient_buying_power` with `orderId` too: it's recorded as rejected.

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. Codes: `rate_limited`, and `stream_limit_reached` (too many live streams open: 3 per key, 6 per account).

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."
  }
}
```

### 500

Something went wrong on our side. If you sent a `clientOrderId`, retry with the same one. Code: `internal_error`.

Retry with the same clientOrderId.:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "internal_error",
    "message": "Something went wrong on our side. If you sent a clientOrderId, retry with the same one (it can't fill twice). Otherwise check your account before retrying."
  }
}
```

### 503

Try again in a moment (honour `Retry-After` when it's sent). Codes: `stale_quote` (the quote, or a stock's last trade, is more than 15 seconds old, so nothing filled), `no_live_price`, `rules_pending`, `unavailable`, `auth_unavailable`, `access_check_unavailable`, `api_keys_unavailable`, `trades_api_disabled`, `stream_unavailable` (the live stream isn't on, or the server is restarting: try again shortly, or poll the reads).

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."
  }
}
```