Crypto liquidation price calculator
Enter your entry price, leverage and margin to see the size of your position, the price where it gets liquidated, and what you would make or lose at your stop-loss. Works for longs and shorts on USDT-margined futures, with the same formula CoinSparring's futures desk uses.
Results
- Position size
- $10,000.00
- Margin
- $1,000.00
- Size in coins
- 0.125
- Liquidation price
- $72,400.00
- Distance to liquidation
- 9.50%price move against you
- P&L at stop-loss
- -$500.00-50.00% of margin
How this is calculated
- Isolated margin: only the margin in this position can be lost, not the rest of your balance.
- Maintenance margin rate 0.5%. A long is liquidated at entry × (1 − 1/leverage + 0.5%), a short at entry × (1 + 1/leverage − 0.5%). This is the exact formula CoinSparring's futures desk uses.
- Fees are not included: CoinSparring charges no trading fees on futures. Funding (0.01% of the position every 8 hours, paid by longs, received by shorts) is not included either.
- Real exchanges use tiered maintenance margin and charge fees, so their liquidation price is usually a little closer to your entry.
What this calculator does
Leverage lets a small margin control a bigger position. At 10x, $1,000 of margin opens a $10,000 position, and every 1% price move is a 10% gain or loss on your margin.
The liquidation price is where the losses have used up your margin, minus a small buffer the exchange keeps (the maintenance margin). When price gets there, the position is closed and the margin is gone. The higher the leverage, the closer that price sits to your entry.
Worked example
Common mistakes
- Thinking 10x leverage survives a 10% drop. The maintenance margin takes a slice, so it is 9.5% here, and less on exchanges that charge fees.
- Putting the stop-loss past the liquidation price. The stop never fires: liquidation gets there first and takes the whole margin.
- Choosing leverage first. Decide where your idea is wrong (the stop), then pick leverage that keeps the liquidation price well past it.
- Mixing up margin and position size. At 10x, $1,000 of margin controls a $10,000 position, and profit and loss are worked out on the $10,000.
Common questions
How is the liquidation price calculated?
- For an isolated-margin long: entry × (1 − 1/leverage + maintenance margin rate). For a short: entry × (1 + 1/leverage − maintenance margin rate). This calculator uses a 0.5% maintenance margin rate, the same as CoinSparring's futures desk.
What leverage is safe for crypto?
- No leverage is safe on its own, but lower leverage leaves more room. At 2x, price has to move about 49.5% against you before liquidation; at 20x, only 4.5%. Most beginners do better at 1x to 3x while they learn.
Does a stop-loss prevent liquidation?
- Yes, as long as it sits between your entry and the liquidation price. If the stop is past the liquidation price, the position is liquidated first. In a fast market a stop can also fill at a worse price than the one you set.
Try this trade with 10,000 virtual USDT
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Educational tool. CoinSparring is a paper-trading simulator with virtual money: not an exchange, and nothing here is financial advice. Real exchanges use their own margin rules and fees.