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Crypto Liquidation Price Calculator

Enter your entry, leverage and margin — the calculator shows where the position gets force-closed, how far away that is, and how much margin it would wipe out.

Estimated liquidation price
$90.45
entry $100.00 — liquidated below
Move to liquidation
-9.5%
from your entry
Position value$10,000.00 (100 coins)
Your margin (initial)$1,000.00
Maintenance margin at liquidation$45.23
Margin wiped out if liquidated$954.77

Baseline isolated-margin estimate with a flat maintenance rate. Real exchanges use tiered maintenance brackets and add funding and fees, so their trigger sits slightly closer to your entry — treat this as the optimistic bound.

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Estimates only — not financial advice.

Quick answer

Liquidation is where an exchange force-closes a leveraged position once losses consume your margin. Roughly, a long at 10x leverage liquidates on about a 10% adverse move, 20x on about 5%. Enter entry, leverage and margin and this tool shows the exact liquidation price and how far away it sits.

How this is calculated

A leveraged position is liquidated when your equity falls to the exchange's maintenance requirement. Equity is your margin plus unrealized P&L; the requirement is the maintenance rate m times the position's current notional. Setting them equal for a long — margin + qty × (P − entry) = m × qty × P — and solving for P gives:

long liquidation = entry × (1 − 1/leverage) ÷ (1 − m), and by the mirrored derivation short liquidation = entry × (1 + 1/leverage) ÷ (1 + m). At 10× with a 0.5% maintenance rate, a long survives roughly a 9.5% drop; at 50×, barely 1.5%.

This is the isolated-margin, flat-rate baseline. Real venues apply tiered maintenance brackets, fees and funding, which move the trigger slightly closer to your entry — the number your exchange displays is the one that binds. For what each leverage tier survives against Bitcoin's real daily noise, read the leverage and liquidation guide. The formula, like every engine on this site, is unit-tested and documented on the methodology page.

Frequently asked questions

What is a liquidation price?
The price at which your exchange force-closes a leveraged position because your remaining margin no longer covers the maintenance requirement. For a long it sits below your entry; for a short, above. Hit it and the position — and most of the margin behind it — is gone, regardless of what the price does afterwards.
How is the liquidation price calculated?
For an isolated-margin linear contract: long liquidation = entry × (1 − 1/leverage) ÷ (1 − maintenance rate); short = entry × (1 + 1/leverage) ÷ (1 + maintenance rate). It comes from solving "equity equals maintenance margin" — the full derivation is in the how-it-works section below.
Why does my exchange show a slightly different liquidation price?
Exchanges use tiered maintenance brackets (bigger positions need higher rates), deduct fees, and settle funding payments against your margin — all of which pull the real trigger slightly closer to your entry than this flat-rate baseline. Treat our number as the optimistic bound and your exchange's number as the binding one.
How do I move my liquidation price further from my entry?
Only two inputs move it: leverage and margin. Halving leverage or doubling the margin behind the same position value pushes the trigger roughly twice as far away — try it in the calculator. Most traders never let it get tested: a stop-loss placed inside the liquidation distance exits with a controlled loss first. The position size calculator works that stop-based sizing out.
Does this tell me whether I will be liquidated?
No. It computes where liquidation sits for the numbers you enter — pure arithmetic, no prediction about whether the market will reach it. Whether a 9.5% adverse move is likely is exactly the kind of forecast this site doesn't make.

Related guides

Crypto Leverage and Liquidation: How Far Your Trade Is From ZeroLiquidation price is arithmetic, not luck. The exact formula, what each leverage tier survives, and how often Bitcoin's ordinary daily noise crosses those lines.Crypto Position Sizing: The 1% Rule, Worked OutHow to size a trade from your stop-loss so a loss costs exactly what you chose — the formula, the survival math behind the 1% rule, and why a tight stop means a bigger position, not less risk.

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Disclaimer: This tool provides educational estimates only — it is not financial, investment, or tax advice. Crypto assets are volatile; past performance does not guarantee future results. See our methodology and full disclaimer.