How to Use a Liquidation Price Calculator
Understand isolated/cross margin, maintenance margin and safety buffers without treating an estimate as an exchange guarantee.
Liquidation Is Not a Stop
A stop is your chosen risk control; liquidation is forced closure after margin becomes insufficient. Leave a meaningful buffer for wicks, fees, funding and maintenance-margin changes. Treating liquidation as a stop hands control to the exchange.
Isolated vs Cross Margin
Isolated margin limits risk to assigned collateral. Cross margin can use available account equity, so liquidation moves with other positions and balance changes. The calculator mode must match the actual exchange setting.
Use a Safety Buffer
The result is an estimate from public formulas and inputs. Real venues may use tiered maintenance margin, mark price and extra fees. Place the stop meaningfully before the estimated liquidation and verify again on the exchange order screen.
