Listen up, frens. I lost a lot because I didn't get liquidation math. It's like building a house on a cliff edge. Your initial margin is the small plot of ground you own. Leverage is how far you build *over* that cliff, with nothing underneath.
Say you put $100 into a SOL long at 50x. You're controlling $5,000 worth of SOL. Sounds great, right? But your liquidation price is set *super close*. A 2% drop in SOL price ($100 on your $5,000 position) and your $100 margin is GONE. POOF. The exchange takes your $100 to cover the loss and closes your position. You don't even get a chance to recover. Lower leverage gives you more ground, more wiggle room on that cliff. Don't be like me, clinging to a thread.
#LiquidationMath #LeverageTrap #CryptoEducation #FuturesTrading #ProtectYourCapital
Say you put $100 into a SOL long at 50x. You're controlling $5,000 worth of SOL. Sounds great, right? But your liquidation price is set *super close*. A 2% drop in SOL price ($100 on your $5,000 position) and your $100 margin is GONE. POOF. The exchange takes your $100 to cover the loss and closes your position. You don't even get a chance to recover. Lower leverage gives you more ground, more wiggle room on that cliff. Don't be like me, clinging to a thread.
#LiquidationMath #LeverageTrap #CryptoEducation #FuturesTrading #ProtectYourCapital