What Is a Limit Order? Buy at Your Price, Simply Explained

Set the price you want and let it fill if it gets there.

Market vs limit

A normal swap (a market trade) fills now at today's price. A limit order says: "buy (or sell) only if the price reaches X". If it never gets there, nothing happens and you can cancel.

Take-profit

A take-profit is a limit sell above the current price: "sell if it rises to X".

DCA

Dollar-cost averaging means buying a fixed amount on a schedule (say every day) instead of all at once. It doesn't remove risk.

On Craic Hub

Limit orders, take-profit and DCA run through Jupiter's on-chain order programs. You sign each order in your own wallet and can cancel any time. See Auto Trade.

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Not financial advice. Crypto is risky and you can lose everything you put in. Do your own research. Craic Hub is non-custodial: you trade from your own wallet and nobody here will ever ask for your seed phrase. Fees paid in $CRAIC are burned.