---
title: "Cancel All Orders"
method: DELETE
path: "/portfolio/events/orders"
tags: ["orders"]
---

# Cancel All Orders

`DELETE /portfolio/events/orders`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://external-api.kalshi.com/trade-api/v2`
- URL: `https://external-api.kalshi.com/trade-api/v2/portfolio/events/orders`
- Auth: API key in header `KALSHI-ACCESS-KEY` and API key in header `KALSHI-ACCESS-SIGNATURE` and API key in header `KALSHI-ACCESS-TIMESTAMP`

Cancels all resting event-market orders for the authenticated Direct member across every exchange shard. If `subaccount` is omitted, matching orders may come from any subaccount. If it is provided, only orders for that subaccount are eligible. Newly placed orders may also be cancelled during the minute after the request.

## Query parameters

- `subaccount` integer

## Response `204`

All matching resting orders were cancelled

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized - authentication required
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded. The default cost is 10 tokens per request. Use GET /trade-api/v2/account/endpoint_costs to list non-default endpoint costs.
- `500`: Internal server error

## Changes

- **2026-10-16** `bd0c218a65b7`: 1 warning
  - for the `query` request parameter `subaccount`, the min was set to `0.00`
- **2026-08-27** `0dd1f048d188`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/kalshi/apis/kalshi-trade-api-manual-endpoints/changes/portfolio/events/orders/delete.md)

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