Why are liquidations based on the mark price? Don’t panic—your class rep is here to explain:
The latest traded price is the price of the most recent trade in the contract market. A large order can cause a brief price spike—a sudden wick.
Not using the latest price directly to calculate liquidations helps prevent brief price distortions in a market from triggering unreasonable cascades of liquidations.
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