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Liquidation price calculator
Where a leveraged crypto long or short gets closed by the exchange, how close that is, and whether your stop fills before it.
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Where it closes
Liquidation near 81,450: the price only has to fall 9.50% from 90,000. Your stop at 87,300 comes first.
- Position size
- $10,000.00 for $1,000.00 of margin at a leverage of 10.
- Loss at the stop
- 3.00% move = 30% of the margin ($300.00).
- Highest leverage with this stop first
- A leverage of about 28.6. Above it the exchange closes the trade before your stop.
- What moves it
- Fees, funding and your exchange's own tiers move the real price a little closer: treat this one as the outer edge.
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Leverage sets how close the exit is
At 10x the margin covers a 10% move, less the maintenance share the exchange keeps back, so a bitcoin long from 90,000 is closed near 81,450, 9.5% lower. At 50x the same long is closed about 1.5% lower, a move bitcoin often makes in an hour. A stop only protects you if it sits before the liquidation price: with a 3% stop, anything above about 28x lets the exchange close the trade first, at a worse price and usually with a fee.
To size the trade from the stop instead of the leverage, use the position size calculator for stocks and crypto; for MetaTrader accounts, the margin and stop-out calculator.
Not advice. A rough isolated-margin estimate from the numbers you type; your exchange's own figure is the one that counts.
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