The 'Liquidations' feature of the Upvest Investment API allows you to sell off all open positions in an account, enabling users to quickly exit all of their investments.
When the end user has open sell orders, some positions may be reserved and will not fully liquidate.
In the following guides, we provide you with all the necessary information on this topic so that you can carry out a smooth implementation.
Authentication scopes —
account_liquidations:adminFor more information, refer to Authentication scopes.
Before implementing account liquidations, ensure you have:
Webhook handler ready — Set up a webhook endpoint to listen for liquidation lifecycle events.
- Subscribe to
ACCOUNT_LIQUIDATION.*events.
For more information, refer to Implementing webhooks.
- Subscribe to
Liquidations
Learn how to liquidate all open positions in an account and understand the liquidation lifecycle and object structure.Liquidating positions of an account
A guide to implementing liquidations. We'll show you how to initiate liquidations and handle webhooks for tracking progress.Tracing a liquidation request
Learn how to track liquidations and their associated individual orders through the complete sequence of events and webhooks.Fee collection during liquidation
Understand how AUM-based fees are collected as part of the liquidation flow, including the sequence of events, reconciliation, and treasury segregation.