What Fees Appear When You Transact in Options?

The headline charge on a Pluang Options transaction is the transaction fee: 0.3% of the total transaction value, with a minimum of $3.00 per transaction, applied to every user and charged separately each time you open and each time you close a position. Alongside it, the order review screen also itemises any applicable taxes for that specific transaction, which is why Pluang shows you the full breakdown — transaction amount, fees, and taxes — before you confirm rather than after. Two further costs are easy to overlook because they are not billed as options fees at all. Because Options are priced and traded in US dollars, funding your account involves an IDR-to-USD currency conversion, which carries its own 0.25% conversion fee plus 11% VAT charged at the point of conversion, not at the point of trading. And the premium itself is a cost in the ordinary sense: it is what you pay to open a long position, and unlike a fee it is set by the market rather than by Pluang.

The full cost picture on an Options transaction:

• Transaction fee: 0.3% of the total transaction value, minimum $3.00 per transaction, charged on both the opening and the closing trade.
• JFX fee and income tax: the Jakarta Futures Exchange charges its own fee on the transaction, and income tax applies to the transaction itself. Both are itemised on the order review screen for your specific order.
• Currency conversion (indirect): Options are USD-denominated. Converting IDR to USD costs 0.25% plus 11% VAT — charged at conversion, not on the options trade itself.
• The premium: what you pay to open a long position (or receive to open a short one). Market-determined, not a Pluang charge, but it is your largest cost on most long trades.
• No fee tiering: the 0.3% / $3.00 minimum structure is identical for all users, with no volume or loyalty discount.
• 11% VAT on fees: both Pluang's transaction fee and the JFX fee carry VAT of 11%, calculated on the fees themselves rather than on your profit.

Related questions:

Q: Does Pluang charge a fee just to hold an Options position?
No. There is no custody fee, holding fee, or daily carrying charge on an open Options position at Pluang. The charges are transactional — you pay the 0.3% fee (minimum $3.00) when you open and again when you close, and nothing in between simply for keeping the position open. What does change over time is the contract's own value, since time decay erodes an option's premium as expiry approaches, but that is market behaviour rather than a fee Pluang levies.

Q: Is the currency conversion fee part of the Options transaction fee?
No, they are separate charges levied at different moments. Options are denominated in US dollars, so the 0.25% conversion fee plus 11% VAT applies when you convert IDR into USD to fund your balance — it is a currency-exchange cost, and it would apply the same way whether you then traded options, US stocks, or nothing at all. The 0.3% options transaction fee is charged separately on the trade itself. If you already hold a USD balance, no new conversion fee arises for an options trade.

Q: Where do I see every charge for a specific order?
On the order review screen, reached by tapping Review Order after you have picked your contract, order type, and quantity. Pluang shows the transaction amount together with all fees and taxes charged on that order, and you confirm only after seeing it. Treat that screen as the authoritative breakdown for your own transaction rather than estimating from the percentage — it captures everything applicable to that specific order.