Crypto Liquidation Price Calculator

Leveraged crypto trading amplifies both gains and losses — and when losses reach a critical threshold, the exchange automatically force-closes your position through a process called liquidation. Knowing your liquidation price before entering a trade is fundamental risk management, not optional. At 10x leverage on a long position, a price drop of just 9–10% wipes out your entire margin deposit. At 20x leverage, a 4–5% move can trigger liquidation. This calculator shows exactly where your liquidation price sits based on your entry price, leverage ratio, position direction, and the maintenance margin rate set by your exchange. The maintenance margin is the minimum account equity required to keep the position open — once your unrealized losses erode your initial margin down to this floor, liquidation occurs automatically. Common maintenance margin rates range from 0.5% on major exchanges to 2–3% on smaller platforms. Knowing your liquidation price in advance lets you position a stop-loss above it, evaluate whether the risk/reward profile justifies the trade, and size your position so a normal market drawdown cannot force a liquidation before your thesis plays out. This calculator models the isolated margin scenario used by most retail traders on perpetual futures contracts. Always verify the exact formula with your specific exchange — Binance, Bybit, OKX, and BitMEX each use slightly different variations that can shift the liquidation price by hundreds of dollars on a high-priced asset.

Initial Margin Rate = 1 ÷ Leverage. For a long position: Liquidation Price = Entry Price × (1 − Initial Margin Rate + Maintenance Margin Rate). For a short position: Liquidation Price = Entry Price × (1 + Initial Margin Rate − Maintenance Margin Rate). Distance to Liquidation = |Liquidation Price − Entry Price| ÷ Entry Price × 100. Worked example — long BTC at $65,000 with 10x leverage and 0.5% maintenance margin. Initial Margin Rate = 1 ÷ 10 = 0.10. Liquidation Price = $65,000 × (1 − 0.10 + 0.005) = $65,000 × 0.905 = $58,825. Distance = |$58,825 − $65,000| ÷ $65,000 × 100 = 9.5%. For a short at the same entry with 10x leverage: Liquidation Price = $65,000 × (1 + 0.10 − 0.005) = $65,000 × 1.095 = $71,175. These formulas model isolated margin, where only the funds allocated to this position are at risk. Cross-margin accounts draw on the entire account balance to prevent liquidation, providing more buffer but exposing greater capital to simultaneous losses across multiple positions.