Paper account not authorized to trade

Alpaca Account Troubleshooting
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I had a working paper account, then I reset the account and now I can’t even place trades through the desktop platform without generating the error message “Account not authorized to trade”

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Is your Alpaca Account linked to TradingView by any chance?

If so, the following steps should fix this issue:

  1. In the 0Auth Apps Alpaca menu, find TradingView and “Revoke” access
  2. Go back to your paper account and reset it again
  3. Generate a new API Key
  4. Try trading, it should work now.
  5. You can reconnect Alapaca to TradingView from here
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Unfortunately, this is a bit of a bug we are working to fix. For now, as @lloydland mentioned, even if not linked to TradingView, simply reset the account and generate new keys. Working hard to resolve this issue, but in the meantime that should fix things.

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Also having this issue

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This worked for me. I hope this gets to the top so that everyone can try this fix. I had to search for this solutions for hours. Thank you.