# Limit buy order won't get approved **URL:** \ **Category:** šŸ¤ Help\ **Created:** [March 9, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276 "2020-03-09T08:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chantal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/chantal/32/12676_2.png) [@chantal](https://community.trading212.com/u/chantal)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/1 "2020-03-09T08:38:33Z")
Trying to set a limit buy order. I have ā‚¬ 24,43 available in my account. I try to set a limit buy order for 2 shares of VTIQ with $10.00 as limit price. Total is ā‚¬ 17,51. Now I get a message that the order canā€™t exceed 95% of the available funds. Huh? šŸ¤” Not even close to 95% right? ---
**Author:** ![laguiar](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/laguiar/32/275_2.png) [@laguiar](https://community.trading212.com/u/laguiar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 9:01am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/2 "2020-03-09T09:01:30Z")
I would be very happy if this limit can be increased to something like 97% at least šŸ˜Œ btwā€¦ 17,51 is 71.67%. ---
**Author:** ![chantal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/chantal/32/12676_2.png) [@chantal](https://community.trading212.com/u/chantal)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/3 "2020-03-09T09:07:30Z")
Yes I know. It looks like it checks the 95% based on the market order price. ---
**Author:** ![David](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/david/32/39_2.png) [@David](https://community.trading212.com/u/David)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 9:35am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/4 "2020-03-09T09:35:34Z")
@chantal Yes, thatā€™s correct - the 95% limitā€™s based on the current market price. ---
**Author:** ![chantal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/chantal/32/12676_2.png) [@chantal](https://community.trading212.com/u/chantal)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/5 "2020-03-09T09:47:45Z")
@David why is that checked when you set a price much lower as limit price? Current price is 2 or 3 dollars higher than I wanted to set as limit price. A limit order doesnā€™t have anything to do with the market price. Or am I wrong? I donā€™t understand the logic. ---
**Author:** ![David](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/david/32/39_2.png) [@David](https://community.trading212.com/u/David)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/6 "2020-03-09T18:15:29Z")
@chantal This was the initial setup in order to prevent flooding the exchanges with limit orders that are unlikely to trigger. Example: setting Amazon limits buy at $100 when the stockā€™s trading at $2,000. We have price caps (max distances) now so thatā€™s no longer much of an issue. Weā€™ll be correcting this logic very soon. ---
**Author:** ![dmclean1989](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@dmclean1989](https://community.trading212.com/u/dmclean1989)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/7 "2020-05-04T07:18:50Z")
Itā€™s almost 2 months on, Iā€™m a new user and Iā€™m getting this issue. Think i might go back to Degiro as this platform appears to have several issues ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![chantal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/chantal/32/12676_2.png) [@chantal](https://community.trading212.com/u/chantal)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/8 "2020-05-04T07:34:19Z")
This wil be resolved in a future update. Not thinking about going back to DEGIRO. ---
**Author:** ![H2T2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@H2T2](https://community.trading212.com/u/H2T2)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/9 "2020-05-26T10:45:43Z")
This thread is helpful as Iā€™ve been pulling my hair out thinking neither me or my calculator can calculate the correct 95%! lol But I seriously agree with @chantal. While I do appreciate the business perspective, your users/traders are clearly losing out on making bigger trades and having tiny fractions of their deposited amounts sitting there doing nothing. If I want to invest 2k, then let me. If you canā€™t fulfill a 2k order as the priced spiked at that very moment, and the value of the order became 2.1k, then just partially fulfill it. I wonā€™t be alone in saying that most users wonā€™t care if they ended up buying 1 less share due to a price spike, they will care that they couldnā€™t invest the amount they wanted to invest and the rest is just lying around like spare change doing nothing. ---
**Author:** ![val42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@val42](https://community.trading212.com/u/val42)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/10 "2020-06-22T12:03:34Z")
> [@David](#): > > @chantal This was the initial setup in order to prevent flooding the exchanges with limit orders that are unlikely to trigger. Example: setting Amazon limits buy at $100 when the stockā€™s trading at $2,000. > We have price caps (max distances) now so thatā€™s no longer much of an issue. Weā€™ll be correcting this logic very soon. This bug is still not fixed. ---
**Author:** ![val42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@val42](https://community.trading212.com/u/val42)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/11 "2020-07-24T12:24:42Z")
The bus is still not fixed. Today I was not able to buy shares with all my ā€œfree fundsā€. It was not possible to buy it with several orders, because the shares cost more than 95% of my free money even if I buy 2 shares with the free money for 2 shares. When I search with ā€œ95%ā€ keyword I see many users complaining about this bug. I am using limit orders. ---
**Author:** ![David](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/david/32/39_2.png) [@David](https://community.trading212.com/u/David)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/12 "2020-07-27T10:06:38Z")
@val42 Hi šŸ‘‹ Yes, this is yet to be corrected, weā€™ve raised the priority but canā€™t commit to a deadline. ---
**Author:** ![Hewyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9dc877/32.png) [@Hewyj](https://community.trading212.com/u/Hewyj)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/13 "2020-12-31T13:22:37Z")
In case this has been forgotten aboutā€¦ Its still boring. ---
**Author:** ![val42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@val42](https://community.trading212.com/u/val42)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/14 "2021-01-15T13:49:24Z")
Strange. I made one limit order and it worked. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/trading212/original/2X/2/2ff26a192e7673a150533f3c2bc483800fb6ee95.png) Free funds: 20 924.56 Limit order: 25Ɨ836.98 = 20 924.50 (99.99%) But the second time when I tried it did not work. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/trading212/original/2X/7/7a37286053acf7bc00c1d90eede8206496bdcd33.png) ---
**Author:** ![jc93](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/jc93/32/13026_2.png) [@jc93](https://community.trading212.com/u/jc93)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/15 "2021-02-09T11:51:58Z")
Iā€™m guessing this hasnā€™t been sorted out yet ---
**Author:** ![Vedran](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/vedran/32/182_2.png) [@Vedran](https://community.trading212.com/u/Vedran)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/16 "2021-02-09T11:59:43Z")
As far as I know, max value of limit orders = free funds available on your account. So for example you have 20k free funds, you can have any number of limit orders with cumulative value of 20k. Ie limit order 1 is 5k, limit order 2 is 8k and limit order 3 is 7k. Total 20k. On top of Limit order free funds checkup doesnā€™t look at limit price but rather market price. ( this was said long ago, not sure if changed since) ---
**Author:** ![Vendrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/898d66/32.png) [@Vendrel](https://community.trading212.com/u/Vendrel)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/17 "2021-02-11T18:10:55Z")
Sell Limit Price is set to $1, Sell Stop Price is $0.95, and here the engine says: the remaining value should be min. $1. ![trading212-math-issue](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/trading212/original/2X/e/ed3083774e0864fabe2f09c095fca33b7ab6619b.png) Which means, it should be enough to decrease the amount with 2 because 2 x StopPrice \> $1. **Yet, it doesnā€™t work, see on the right side of the image.** I had to decrease the amount to 134600 for making it eligible. I have a clue that the expression used is based on the Market Price, not the Stop Price. Btw, it should be intuitive. Donā€™t bother us traders with the details, you rub our time. Just do the best just like a smart secretary. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Scrooge\_McCodf](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.trading212.com/scrooge_mccodf/32/18951_2.png) [@Scrooge\_McCodf](https://community.trading212.com/u/Scrooge_McCodf)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/18 "2021-02-11T18:26:06Z")
This feels like Google Translate but Jesus, you shouldnā€™t speak to anyone like that. ![Screenshot_20210211-182523](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/trading212/original/2X/5/502d5c08330c90122408d5151489ab181420c634.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@Alien](https://community.trading212.com/u/Alien)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/19 "2021-02-11T20:28:24Z")
The remaining value of the instrument is the remaining number of shares X the current value of the share ($0.01). So you need to leave at least 100 shares in your account or sell all the shares you have. ---
**Author:** ![Vendrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/898d66/32.png) [@Vendrel](https://community.trading212.com/u/Vendrel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276/20 "2021-02-13T15:58:05Z")
Yes, perhaps this is the issue in the math because when you sell it as specified, the price will be at least the **Stop Price** which is $0.95 (current Market Price will not be in the game, it will be a past then), see the screenshot. =\> 2 x $0.95 = $1.90 which is \>$1 so you need to decrease the Amount of Shares by 2 and the criteria becomes fulfilled. In this case: 138848 shares should be decreased to 138846, and the remaining value of the investment will be $1.95 which is more than the required $1. [Next page](https://community.trading212.com/t/limit-buy-order-wont-get-approved/2276.md?page=2)