Leverage & Liquidation Price Calculator

How It Works

Leverage converts a small margin into a big position: with isolated margin, notional size = margin × leverage, and the liquidation price is where losses plus round-trip fees have eaten the entire margin. At 25× that happens after roughly a 4% move against you — plus fees. This page lays out exactly where your numbers land.

Why high leverage is unforgiving

The liquidation distance is about 1 ÷ leverage: 10× gives ~10%, 25× gives ~4%, 50× gives ~2%. A 2% daily wiggle is routine for most crypto pairs, so at 50× an isolated long is often gone within hours of entry even when the direction was right. The full liquidation math used here is liq ≈ entry × (1 + fee − 1/leverage) ÷ (1 − fee) for longs (fees charged on entry notional and on the notional remaining at liquidation), and its mirror across the entry for shorts.

Fees pull liquidation closer

You pay a taker fee to open, and the exchange effectively liquidates the rest of the position at market, costing a second fee. With a 0.04% per-side taker fee, the 4% liquidation distance of a 25× long shrinks to about 3.92% — small, but it always works against you, and on low-leverage, high-fee setups the gap widens. The calculator includes your entered fee rate in the estimate.

Isolated vs cross margin

This tool models isolated margin: the worst case is capped at the margin you allocated, and only that position is liquidated. Cross margin pools your whole account balance as collateral, so liquidation sits much farther away — but a bad tail move can drain the entire account instead of one position. There is no arithmetic here that makes cross safer; only differently distributed.

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