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HTTP status: 422 · Title: “No position”

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When it fires

POST /v1/trades refused a sell before sending it on, because all of these were true:
  • This API key’s previous sell of the same marketId and outcomeIndex, from the same account, failed because the account held nothing on that outcome. That earlier trade reads status: "failed" and errorCode: "no_position" on GET /v1/trades/{id}, and its id is named in detail.
  • That failure is less than an hour old.
  • Nothing has given the account a position on that outcome since: no buy of it has landed, through the API or any other Kash channel.
The amount does not matter: an account that holds nothing on an outcome cannot sell any amount of it. Nothing was recorded, so no trade id is returned and no webhook is sent.

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How to fix

  • Do not re-send the same sell in a loop. It keeps getting this answer until something changes.
  • Check what the account holds with GET /v1/portfolio/positions.
  • Buy the outcome first. Once that buy has landed, a sell is accepted as usual.
  • After an hour a sell is sent on again, and the account’s position is checked afresh.