Crypto Leverage Calculator

See the position your margin controls, the price at which it would be liquidated, and what a move in the price does to your money.

Your position

Your own money in the trade.

From 1 to 200. Use 10 for 10×.

Price per unit you get in at.

Long gains if the price rises.

Details, optional

To see the profit or loss if you close there.

Charged on the whole position.

Set by your exchange.

Your leveraged position

Fill in your position and choose Calculate Leverage. Your figures appear here.

Position Value

₹0.00

Margin × leverage

Each 1% Price Move

₹0.00

What a 1% change in price gains or loses you

Profit / Loss at Exit

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Enter an exit price to see this

Return on Margin

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Enter an exit price to see this

Liquidation Price (Estimate)

₹0.00

The price at which your margin is used up

An estimate, before tax. Exchanges use their own liquidation formulas, and funding payments, fees and fast markets can close a position sooner. Leverage can lose your whole margin quickly. To size a trade from the loss you can accept, use the Crypto Position Size Calculator.

How it is calculated

Leverage lets a small margin control a larger position, so gains and losses are both multiplied.

  • Position value = margin × leverage
  • Units = position value ÷ entry price
  • Each 1% price move = position value × 1%, which is leverage × 1% of your margin
  • Liquidation price, long = entry price × (1 − 1 ÷ leverage + maintenance margin)
  • Liquidation price, short = entry price × (1 + 1 ÷ leverage − maintenance margin)
  • Profit or loss at exit = units × the gap between exit and entry, less the fee on the way in and on the way out
  • Return on margin = profit or loss ÷ margin

Frequently asked questions

Short answers on leverage, liquidation and what this calculator leaves out.

Leverage means trading a position larger than your own money, with the rest lent by the exchange. Your own money is the margin. At 10× leverage, a margin of ₹50,000 controls a position worth ₹5,00,000. Profits and losses are worked out on the whole position, so both are multiplied.

Every 1% move in the price changes your margin by 1% times the leverage. At 10×, a 1% move is 10% of your margin. In the example above, closing a long at ₹26,00,000 after entering at ₹25,00,000 is a 4% rise, which makes ₹20,000, a 40% return on the ₹50,000 margin. A 4% fall would lose the same amount.

It is the price at which your losses have used up your margin and the exchange closes the position. At 10× a long is liquidated after a fall of about 10%, so an entry at ₹25,00,000 gives a liquidation price of about ₹22,50,000. The higher the leverage, the closer that price is to your entry.

Each exchange has its own formula. Most keep back a maintenance margin, which moves the liquidation price closer to your entry, and you can enter that here. Trading fees, funding payments on perpetual futures and a fast market can also close a position earlier, or at a worse price, than the estimate.

Very. Crypto prices often move several percent in a day, which at high leverage is enough to lose the whole margin. A liquidation is final, so a price that later recovers does not bring the money back. To size a trade from the loss you can accept, use the Crypto Position Size Calculator.

It is not settled. There is no official clarification on how crypto futures and other derivatives are taxed. Some treat them like other crypto, taxed at the flat 30% with no set-off of losses, and others treat them as business income at slab rates. It can depend on how the contract is settled. This calculator shows figures before tax, so check your own position with a tax professional.

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