What's the Difference Between a Spot Portfolio and a Futures Portfolio on Pluang?
Your Spot Portfolio shows the crypto assets you directly own, valued in IDR at current market prices, while your Futures Portfolio records every Crypto Futures transaction you make, focusing on your Futures assets, margin, and leverage positions in USDT. The two are tracked separately in the Pluang app because they represent fundamentally different types of exposure — direct ownership on one side, and leveraged derivative contracts on the other. This separation isn't just cosmetic: your Spot Portfolio balance moves one-to-one with the market price of what you hold, while your Futures Portfolio reflects margin allocated, leverage applied, funding payments, and unrealized profit or loss on open perpetual contracts, none of which involves owning any underlying asset. If you're actively managing both — for example, holding BTC in spot while running a Short Crypto Futures hedge on the same asset — you'll need to check both portfolios to understand your full, combined exposure, since neither view on its own tells the complete story.
- Spot Portfolio: Reflects the actual crypto assets sitting in your wallet, valued at the current market price in IDR — this is your direct ownership, with no leverage or margin involved.
- Futures Portfolio: Reflects your open and closed Crypto Futures positions, including the margin you've allocated in USDT, the leverage you've applied, funding payments received or paid, and your unrealized or realized profit and loss — none of which involves owning the underlying asset.
- Why they're separate: Because Crypto Futures uses leverage and margin mechanics that don't apply to spot holdings, keeping the two portfolios distinct lets you monitor your direct holdings and your leveraged exposure independently, without one figure distorting the other.
- Check both regularly: If you're hedging your Spot Portfolio with Futures, reviewing both portfolios side by side gives you a clearer picture of your overall crypto exposure than looking at either one alone.
- Different risk profiles by design: Your Spot Portfolio can only lose the value you paid for the asset, while your Futures Portfolio carries liquidation risk on top of price risk — a distinction worth keeping in mind when you interpret each portfolio's numbers.
Related questions:
Q: Where can I see my open Crypto Futures positions on Pluang?
Your open Crypto Futures positions, margin, and leverage are shown in the Futures Portfolio, separate from your Spot Portfolio. This keeps your leveraged exposure clearly distinguished from assets you directly own.
Q: Does my Futures Portfolio show the assets I own outright?
No. The Futures Portfolio focuses on your Futures assets, margin, and leverage positions — asset ownership is only reflected in your Spot Portfolio, which is valued in IDR rather than USDT.
Q: If I hedge my spot holdings with a Futures position, will they show up in the same portfolio?
No. Your spot holdings remain in the Spot Portfolio and your hedge position remains in the Futures Portfolio, so you'll need to check both to see your combined exposure and overall risk picture.
Q: Are Spot and Futures results ever brought together?
Yes, for realised results. As of 31 August 2026 your Crypto Futures trading history is included in the main Lifetime Realised P&L figure on your portfolio, rather than sitting only in the Futures tab. The two portfolio views themselves stay distinct, because Spot is direct IDR-denominated ownership while Futures is leveraged USDT-margined contracts — but your closed-position results across both are counted toward the same combined total.