Paper trading - account is not authorized to trade

Hello, there.

I am getting this error message when I try the make orders API calls with my paper account.

“account is not authorized to trade”

Does anyone know what is causing this issue?

Thank you,

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I am getting the same error message as of this morning and won’t clear. I have been successfully using the paper account for the last 2 weeks so I am not sure what changed. Please help!

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Same here. No idea why.

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I just got a response from Alpaca and indeed they are facing some issues.

Here is the link they sent me: https://status.alpaca.markets/

Having the same issue, has been working fine for 2 months.