See how much a price move against you costs at a given leverage, and how close liquidation really is.
Higher leverage = a smaller move wipes you out. Size positions by risk, not by max leverage.
Leverage turns small price moves into large changes in your margin. This calculator shows that multiplier directly: what a 1%, 2% or 5% move does to the margin, and the adverse move that ends in liquidation.
Enter the leverage and the maintenance margin rate. Use it before choosing leverage: if a normal daily move for the coin is close to the liquidation distance, the leverage is too high for that coin.
Leverage 10x, maintenance margin 0.5%.
No leverage is safe on its own; risk is set by position size and stop-loss. Keep the liquidation distance several times wider than your stop distance and well beyond the coin's normal daily range.
Not if the position size is the same. Lower leverage only posts more margin. Profit and loss per price move depend on the position size, not on the leverage setting.
Altcoins usually move several times more per day than Bitcoin. The same leverage puts liquidation within a normal day's range far more often.
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