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# DCA

> Buy the same amount on a repeating schedule, whatever the price does.

DCA buys a fixed amount at a fixed interval. It is driven by **time**, not price — the schedule runs whether the coin is up or down.

Open a coin and tap 🔁 **DCA**, or send `/dca <address>`.

## Set up a plan

<Steps>
  <Step title="Amount per buy">
    What each individual buy spends — not the total for the plan.
  </Step>

  <Step title="How often">
    Tap a preset, or type an interval like `30m`, `2h` or `1d`.

    From **15 minutes** to **7 days**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="How many buys">
    Up to **100**. The plan ends once it has done them all.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Start it">
    The card confirms the amount, the interval, the number of buys and the wallet.

    **The first buy goes out within a minute**, not after the first interval.
  </Step>
</Steps>

A plan spending \$25 every 6 hours for 20 buys commits **\$500 over five days**.

## Following it

Each buy reports into the chat as it happens, with a running count and the time until the next one.

| Card                  | What it means                                                             |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **DCA buy 3/20**      | It bought. The next one is timed from here.                               |
| **missed**            | The buy did not go out this time. It tries again at the next interval.    |
| **didn't go through** | It was attempted and failed. The card names the reason.                   |
| **unconfirmed**       | Dawn could not tell how it ended. It counts as neither bought nor missed. |
| **DCA finished**      | All the buys are done. The card totals what was bought and spent.         |

## When a plan stops early

**Three failures in a row end the plan.** Nothing more is spent, and the card says what it managed before stopping.

That is usually a sign something has changed about the coin or the balance rather than bad luck — no liquidity left, not enough USDC, or a token that has started blocking trades. Look at the reason on the card before starting another plan.

A plan that finishes its last buy with one failure still reports as **finished**, with a note that the last buy did not go through.

## Limits

|                                      |                     |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------- |
| Interval                             | 15 minutes – 7 days |
| Buys per plan                        | up to 100           |
| Active plans                         | **5** at a time     |
| Consecutive failures before stopping | 3                   |

## Stopping a plan

Send `/limitorders` and stop it there. Stopping ends the remaining buys; it does not sell what the plan has already bought.

<Note>
  A DCA plan keeps running when you close Telegram and when you switch profile. If you have stepped away from a coin, stop its plan — it will keep buying otherwise.
</Note>

## Is your balance enough?

DCA does not reserve money. Each buy takes from your balance when it fires, and a buy with nothing behind it simply fails and counts a strike.

If a plan matters to you, keep enough USDC on the balance to cover the buys that are left.