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@@ -196,6 +196,25 @@ bars would remove it entirely.
 `/ES` resolves to the active contract (`/ESU26` today) on Schwab's side, so
 contract rolls need no handling.
 
+### Rate limits
+
+The developer portal shows **Order Limit: 120**, which caps orders per minute —
+this app places none. Schwab separately rate-limits REST calls, commonly cited at
+120 per minute.
+
+Neither constrains us, because **streaming is not REST**. The WebSocket is a
+single connection and bars arrive by push, so steady-state Schwab REST usage is
+essentially zero. This is a concrete advantage of the stream over the polling
+fallback: polling `get_quotes()` once a second would have sat at roughly half the
+limit permanently, forever.
+
+The exception is reconnects. Each one calls `get_user_preferences()` to fetch the
+socket URL, and `StreamService` retries every five seconds, so a sustained outage
+generates about twelve REST calls a minute. Comfortably under, but not nothing —
+worth remembering before shortening that backoff.
+
+Yahoo is a different service and none of these limits apply to it.
+
 ### Authenticating
 
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