> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dawn.trade/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Guardrails

> Degen Mode, Auto-Adjust and Gas Surplus — the three settings that change what Dawn will let a trade do.

`/settings` → **Guardrails**. All three belong to the profile.

## Degen Mode

**Off by default.**

|         | Buys behave like this                                                                                                                               |
| ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Off** | Your slippage applies, and a buy that would move the price more than **30%** is declined.                                                           |
| **On**  | **100% slippage** and **no liquidity protection**. A buy goes through however far it moves the price, and fills can land a long way from the quote. |

Auto Buy and limit buys follow the same rule while it is on.

**Sells always keep your normal slippage**, whichever way this is set. That is deliberate: it keeps the fee inside the minimum you have agreed to accept.

<Warning>
  Degen Mode exists for the case where a fill at any price beats no fill at all — a launch moving faster than any sane slippage setting can follow.

  On a thin pool it is also how you buy the top of your own candle. It does not make a restricted token sellable, and it does not guarantee a fill.
</Warning>

Toggle it from Guardrails, or from the **Degen** button on any token panel.

## Auto-Adjust

**Off by default.**

|         | A buy bigger than your balance                                           |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Off** | Is refused. Nothing is spent.                                            |
| **On**  | Is **reduced** to the largest buy your balance covers, and goes through. |

The trade card names the amount it settled on, so a smaller buy is never a surprise after the fact.

This is the setting that stops "tap \$50, have \$47.30, get nothing" — useful if you often trade close to your full balance, and harmless otherwise.

## Gas Surplus

**Off by default.**

Dawn pays up to **\$5** of network gas on every trade. When a trade needs more than that, this setting decides what happens.

| Gas Surplus        | Behaviour                                                                           |
| ------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Off**            | The trade is declined so you can decide. Nothing is spent.                          |
| **Set to a limit** | The extra comes out of your USDC, up to your limit. Past the limit, still declined. |

Presets are **\$1 · \$2 · \$5 · \$10**, or type your own up to **\$50**.

### It applies to stops too

<Warning>
  Take-profit and stop-loss sells follow the same limit. **A stop-loss that needs more gas than you allow will not fire.**

  If you rely on stops — and especially on a volatile chain where gas spikes exactly when you need to exit — set a surplus limit rather than leaving it off.
</Warning>

## Choosing a set

<Columns cols={2}>
  <Card title="Careful" icon="shield-halved" horizontal>
    Degen off, Auto-Adjust on, Gas Surplus \$2. Nothing surprising happens, and your stops still fire.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fast" icon="fire" horizontal>
    Degen on, Auto-Adjust on, Gas Surplus \$10. You will fill on almost anything, sometimes badly.
  </Card>
</Columns>

Keep them in [separate profiles](/wallets/profiles) rather than toggling between them — that way you can never be in the wrong mode by accident.