# Error with take\_profit.limit\_price
**URL:** https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/error-with-take-profit-limit-price/14263
**Category:** Alpaca Trading
**Created:** [May 23, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/error-with-take-profit-limit-price/14263 "2024-05-23T03:53:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Artic](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Artic)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/error-with-take-profit-limit-price/14263/1 "2024-05-23T03:53:24Z")
I’m using a bracket order and quite frequently receive the following error:
take\_profit.limit\_price must be \>= base\_price + 0.01
How can I know what the base price is? It obviously depends on the market and is not something you can specify in a bracket order.
It seems sometimes my take\_profit.limit\_price is _below_ the “expected fill price”. But I don’t want to set my limit\_price and stop\_price to arbitrarily huge values just to ensure they meet the requirements of whatever the base\_price might be.
Can I query somehow to get the base\_price? Or how do I overcome this error?
```
market_order_data = MarketOrderRequest(
symbol="SPY",
qty=10,
side=OrderSide.BUY,
time_in_force=TimeInForce.DAY,
order_class=OrderClass.BRACKET,
take_profit=TakeProfitRequest(limit_price=?),
stop_loss=StopLossRequest(stop_price=?)
```
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### Author:  [@Artic](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Artic)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/error-with-take-profit-limit-price/14263/2 "2024-05-24T18:20:56Z")
Any help on this would be appreciated. What’s a good strategy to get around this?
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### Author:  [@KelE](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/KelE)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/error-with-take-profit-limit-price/14263/3 "2024-06-12T12:30:38Z")
I believe this happens when you are setting your limit\_price too close to the buy price. Alpaca doesn’t play with sub-penny increments for most positions. Include some logic to either not trade a security when your limit and predicted buy are that close, or use a max function like:
limit\_p=max(predicted\_limit\_price, buy\_price+0.01)#might want to check your model if it’s constantly generating so close to null
take\_profit=TakeProfitRequest(limit\_price=limit\_p)