Isolated margin. Higher leverage moves liquidation closer to your entry — that's the whole risk of leverage in one number.
Estimate only. It assumes a flat maintenance-margin rate; large positions span multiple margin tiers and may liquidate slightly later, and fees and funding aren't modelled. Educational, not financial advice — leverage can lose your entire margin fast.
Trade with defined-risk signals instead of guessing levels →How to use it
- 1Pick your direction. Long or short. A long is liquidated by a drop, a short by a rise.
- 2Enter your entry and leverage. Your fill price and the leverage you're using on the position.
- 3Adjust the maintenance rate (optional). Default 0.5%. Set it to your coin/tier's actual rate for a closer estimate.
- 4Read the distance to liquidation. The % move against you that triggers it — and compare how every leverage level changes that number.
Leverage is a liquidation-distance dial
Leverage doesn't make a trade more likely to work — it just moves your liquidation price closer to your entry. At 10x, a roughly 10% move against you is fatal; at 50x, about 2%; at 100x, about 1%. In a market where BTC, ETH and SOL routinely swing several percent in a day, high leverage means ordinary noise can liquidate you before your idea ever gets a chance.
That's why disciplined trading starts from the stop-loss, not the leverage: decide where the idea is wrong, size so a stop costs a small, fixed share of your account, and let the leverage fall out of that — not the other way around. Every Ezath signal ships with a defined entry and an ATR-based stop-loss for exactly this reason, all on a public track record. Pair this with the risk/reward calculator to size the position itself.
Liquidation calculator FAQ
How is the liquidation price calculated?+
For an isolated-margin linear (USDT) perpetual, ignoring fees and funding: a long is liquidated at entry × (1 − 1/leverage) ÷ (1 − maintenance margin rate), and a short at entry × (1 + 1/leverage) ÷ (1 + maintenance margin rate). In plain terms, you're liquidated when your unrealized loss eats your margin down to the exchange's maintenance requirement.
What is the maintenance margin rate?+
It's the minimum margin the exchange requires you to keep to hold a position. If your equity falls to that level, the position is liquidated. It varies by coin and by position size (bigger positions sit in higher 'tiers' with higher rates) — roughly 0.4–0.5% for major coins at small size, rising from there. This calculator uses a single flat rate you can adjust.
Why is my real liquidation price slightly different on Binance/Bybit?+
Exchanges use a tiered maintenance schedule with a per-tier 'maintenance amount' offset, plus they factor in fees and (on cross margin) your whole account balance. A flat-rate estimate like this is very close for small-to-mid positions and tends to be slightly conservative (your real liquidation may be a touch further away). Always confirm against your exchange before sizing a real trade.
Does higher leverage cause earlier liquidation?+
Yes, and it's the single most important thing to understand. At 10x, roughly a 10% adverse move liquidates a long; at 25x it's about 4%; at 100x, about 1%. The 'same trade, different leverage' table shows exactly how close your liquidation sits for each leverage level. Higher leverage is not 'bigger gains' for free — it's a tighter margin for error.
Isolated vs cross margin — which does this use?+
Isolated margin, where only the margin assigned to that position is at risk. Cross margin shares your whole account balance as collateral, so the liquidation price depends on your other positions and total equity, and can't be reduced to a single formula. For learning the mechanics, isolated is the right model.
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