Why is my Available balance different than my Total balance?
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There are a few reasons why your Available balance is different than your Total balance. First, lets break down what each of them represent. Total balance: The total amount of an asset within your wallet. Available balance: The amount of that asset that is available to be used for trading or withdrawing.
As you deposit, withdraw, collect, buy, sell, or receive airdrops, these balances will continuously change. The most common reason why your Available balance might be lower than your Total balance, or even 0, is because you have an open position, or pending order.
You can check on your open positions within the Positions widget on the Limit tab:
While this position is open, any assets involved in the order are removed from your Available balance until the position is cancelled or processed. Cancelling a position with 0% filled will make any assets involved available again under Available balance immediately. Cancelling a position partially filled, will process the order at that partially filled amount. Your balances won't update until that order is broadcasted and confirmed.
You can check on your Pending Orders by opening up the History tab of your Trading Wallet:
Just because your order is Filled, it does not mean it's completed. It could still be pending. Click on the icon next to your order to check the status. If your status is Pending to Broadcast, Transaction to be Broadcasted, or Pending Confirmation, your order is still pending and your Available balance will not yet be updated. If your status is Confirmed, the order is fully completed and your Available balance will be updated.
Another reason your Available balance might be lower than your Total balance, or even 0, is because there's more than one asset within the same UTXO. This is likely the culprit if you don't have any open positions, or pending orders and still seeing a discrepancy between your Total and Available balances. This is usually the result of a recent airdrop to your wallet or how the UTXO was when you deposited.
When your wallet receives an airdrop, the airdropped tokens are dropped into an existing UTXO. If you have a UTXO with 100,000 Common Sats and receive an airdrop of 2000 RUG, the UTXO is updated to 98,000 Common Sats and 2000 RUG.
Afterwards, your 2000 RUG will show under Available balance and can be traded right away. The 98,000 Common Sats within that UTXO are removed from your Available balance and will only display under your Total balance.
If you had more than 1 UTXO during the airdrop, the other UTXO's with Common Sats will continue to show under Available balance. Only the UTXO that the airdrop was added to has the Common Sats made unavailable.
In order to make those Common Sats available again, you would need to split the UTXO into two UTXO's. One with just Common Sats and one with just RUG. You can use the Collect tool to do this.
When depositing UTXO's, some contain just Common Sats, while others contain Rare Sats or Rings tokens on their own or mixed in with Common Sats (yellow box in the screenshot below shows a UTXO with both a Palindrome Sat and Common Sats)
In this example, depositing the UTXO with the Palindrome Sat will result in 1 Palindrome Sat displaying under Available balance. This can be traded right after it's deposited. However, the Common Sats within that UTXO will only display under Total balance. Since they're within the same UTXO as a Rare Sat (or Rings token), they're not available to be used for trading and will not show under Available balance.
In the example above, the wallet has 1 Palindrome Sat with 327,221 Common Sats within the same UTXO. The 1 Palindrome Sat is available, while the 327,221 Common Sats are only showing under Total and not available to be used for trading.
In order to make those Common Sats available again, you would need to split the UTXO into two UTXO's. One with just Common Sats and one with the Palindrome Sat (and minimum padding) . You can use the Collect tool to do this.
