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FAQ article

Are there trading limits (per-transaction or daily) when using an AI agent?

Yes — Pluang enforces system-level spending limits on orders an AI agent places on your behalf: a maximum cap per order (transaction), per day, and per asset class. These limits are enforced server-side — locked from Pluang's backend, not something the AI agent or you can override or bypass — as confirmed in "Is Agentic Trading on Pluang safe?". The exact cap amounts haven't been published yet.


Pluang Agentic Trading's spending limits work as a server-side control, separate from — and layered on top of — whatever access-scope permissions you've granted the agent (see "How does Pluang control what an AI agent can access or do in my account?"):

  • A per-order cap — a maximum amount any single transaction the agent places can be worth, regardless of what the agent was instructed to trade.
  • A daily cap — a maximum cumulative value of orders the agent can place within a day.
  • A per-asset-class cap — a separate ceiling for each asset class the agent can trade (e.g. US Stocks, Crypto, Crypto Futures), rather than one flat figure applied across all of them.

These caps are enforced entirely on Pluang's backend, not on the device or within the agent's own logic. The AI agent cannot raise, override, or work around them. The specific threshold numbers for each cap haven't been published yet.

The reasoning behind having these limits at all is straightforward: even with a well-scoped permission grant, a single misunderstood instruction, a bug in the agent's logic, or a runaway trading loop could otherwise place trades at a damaging size or frequency. A hard, server-side ceiling bounds that risk regardless of what goes wrong upstream — a backstop that doesn't depend on the agent behaving correctly.


Related questions:

Q: Why does Pluang enforce these limits server-side instead of just relying on permission scopes?
Permission scopes control what kind of action an agent can take (e.g. place US Stock orders, but not withdraw funds); a spending limit controls how much damage any single allowed action — or a burst of them — can cause. Enforcing the cap server-side also means it can't be tampered with from the agent's side or the app itself; it holds even if something upstream misbehaves.

Q: What happens if my agent tries to place a trade above the limit?
The order is blocked or rejected server-side before it executes.

Q: Will the exact cap amounts be the same across every asset class?
No — caps are structured per asset class, so each asset class (e.g. US Stocks, Crypto, Crypto Futures) has its own separate ceiling rather than one flat figure applied across all of them.