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Liquidation price calculator

Leverage gives the platform a price at which it closes your trade for you. Find that price before you enter, for crypto futures, gold or a forex pair, with isolated or cross margin.

Market
Side
Margin
Liquidation / stop-out price–
Position value–
Margin for this trade–
Money that backs it–

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What the calculator works out

A leveraged trade stays open while the money behind it covers the loss plus a small reserve the platform keeps: the maintenance margin on crypto futures, the stop-out level on a forex or gold account. The price where the money runs down to that reserve is the liquidation (or stop-out) price. The formula used for a long position is (size × entry − money backing it) ÷ (size × (1 − maintenance rate)), and the mirror of it for a short.

Isolated or cross

Isolated: only the margin you put on this trade can be lost, so the liquidation price sits close: with 10x, a long is closed roughly 10 % below entry minus the reserve. Cross: the free balance of the account backs the trade, which pushes the price much further away but puts the whole balance at risk. Forex and gold accounts in MetaTrader work like cross margin: every open trade shares the balance, so use the cross setting there.

Example: a 0.1 BTC long at $100,000 with 10x uses $1,000 of margin. Isolated, at a 0.5 % maintenance rate, it is liquidated near $90,452. With cross margin and a $2,000 balance, the same trade lasts down to about $80,402.

Gold and forex stop-out

Here the broker closes trades when equity falls to the stop-out percentage of the used margin (50 % is common, some use 20 % or 100 %). Gold uses 100 ounces per lot and forex 100,000 units; for USDJPY, USDCHF and USDCAD the profit is in the second currency, and the calculator converts it. The used margin follows the current price, the way MetaTrader works it out for these symbols.

Why the real price can differ

Fees, funding payments, other open positions, the platform's mark price and tiered maintenance rates on large positions all move the real number, and fast markets can fill a liquidation worse than the price shown. Treat the result as the outer limit, and keep your own stop loss well before it.

Plan the size first with the crypto position size calculator or the margin level calculator.

Questions

How is the liquidation price calculated?

It is the price where the money backing the trade, less the loss, equals the maintenance margin (crypto) or the stop-out share of the used margin (forex and gold).

Is cross margin safer than isolated?

It moves the liquidation price further away, but a loss can then take the whole balance, not just the trade's margin.

Why did I get liquidated before this price?

Platforms use a mark price, add fees and funding, and use higher maintenance rates for big positions. Fast moves can also fill worse.

What stop-out level does my broker use?

It is in the account terms, often 50 %, sometimes 20 % or 100 %. Margin call warnings usually come earlier.

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