Bitcoin Liquidation Price Calculator
Work out exactly where your long or short gets force-closed — then check that level against the live liquidation map, the funding you pay to hold, and which side the proven-winner whales are on. No signup.
How this is calculated
Liquidation happens when your losses eat through the margin backing the position, minus the slice the venue keeps as maintenance margin. With isolated margin and a single position the maths is simple:
Long: liq = entry × (1 − 1/leverage + MMR) · Short: liq = entry × (1 + 1/leverage − MMR)
The bankruptcy price is the same calculation without the maintenance margin — the point where your margin is fully gone. Real venues differ slightly: maintenance margin is tiered by position size, funding and fees accrue against your margin, and in cross margin your whole balance backs the position, so the actual liquidation sits further away. Treat this as the planning number, not a promise.
Liquidation price — questions answered
How is the Bitcoin liquidation price calculated?
For an isolated-margin long: entry price × (1 − 1/leverage + maintenance margin rate). For a short the two signs flip. In plain words, a 10x long is liquidated roughly 10% below entry, a 20x long roughly 5% below — the maintenance margin moves that level a little closer to your entry.
What is the maintenance margin rate?
The minimum equity a venue requires you to keep against an open position. It is typically 0.4–0.5% for BTC at low size and rises in tiers as the position grows, so a large position is liquidated slightly earlier than a small one at the same leverage.
Why does my exchange show a slightly different liquidation price?
Three usual reasons: your venue uses a tiered maintenance margin for your position size, accrued funding and trading fees are deducted from your margin over time, and cross margin lets the rest of your balance defend the position. Unrealised profit on other positions moves it too.
What are liquidation clusters and why do they matter?
Price levels where a large amount of leveraged positions would be force-closed at once. Because those forced orders add fuel in one direction, price is often drawn toward big clusters — so a stop or a liquidation level sitting inside one is more likely to get hit than a level in empty space. This calculator checks your level against the live map.
Hands these numbers to My positions, where WhaleRoom keeps an eye on them: how close liquidation gets, whether a liquidation cluster moves into the way, what funding costs you, and when the proven whales switch to the other side. Nothing is saved until you press Save there.
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