Leverage Loss Calculator

See what a leveraged crypto trade loses if the price goes against you: the loss after fees, how much of your margin is left, the gain needed to win it back and where you would be liquidated.

Your leveraged trade

Your own money in the trade.

Times your margin, from 1 to 125.

A long loses if the price falls.

The price you get out at.

Fees and margin rules, optional

On the whole position, to open and to close.

Leave empty for 0.5%.

Your downside

Fill in your trade and choose Calculate Loss. Your figures appear here.

Position Size

₹0.00

Margin × leverage

Liquidation Price

₹0.00

Where the whole margin is lost

Loss on Margin

0%

Net loss ÷ margin

Margin Left

₹0.00

What you would have after the trade

Net Loss

₹0.00

Loss on the price + fees

Before funding, for isolated margin. The liquidation price is an estimate; exchanges use their own formulas, and a fast market can close a position at a worse price. To see the upside of the same trade, use the Leverage Profit Calculator.

How it is calculated

Leverage multiplies a loss by the same amount it multiplies a profit, and fees are charged on the whole position.

  • Position size = margin × leverage
  • Coins = position size ÷ entry price
  • Loss on the price = coins × (entry price − exit price) for a long, the other way round for a short
  • Fees = position size × fee, plus coins × exit price × fee
  • Net loss = loss on the price + fees, at most the whole margin
  • Loss on margin = net loss ÷ margin
  • Margin left = margin − net loss
  • Gain needed to recover = net loss ÷ margin left
  • Liquidation price = entry price × (1 − 1 ÷ leverage + maintenance margin) for a long, entry price × (1 + 1 ÷ leverage − maintenance margin) for a short

Frequently asked questions

Short answers on losses with leverage, liquidation and getting the money back.

It shows what a leveraged trade loses if the price goes against you. You enter your margin, the leverage, long or short, the entry price and the price you get out at. You get the loss after fees in rupees and as a share of your margin, what is left of the margin, the gain you would need to win it back and where the position would be liquidated. A table shows the loss at price moves from 1% to 20% against you.

The loss comes from the whole position, not just your margin. With ₹10,000 at 10× you hold ₹1,00,000 of Bitcoin, 0.04 BTC at ₹25,00,000. A 4% fall to ₹24,00,000 costs ₹4,000 on the price, and fees of 0.05% on each side add ₹98, so you lose ₹4,098. That is 40.98% of your margin from a 4% move, about ten times the fall.

More than you lost, because the gain has to come from a smaller amount. After losing ₹4,098 you have ₹5,902 left, and you need ₹4,098 more, a 69.43% gain on what is left. The deeper the loss, the steeper the climb: losing half your margin needs a 100% gain to recover.

On isolated margin the exchange closes the position at the liquidation price, so the most you lose is the margin you put in. At 10× with a 0.5% maintenance margin that happens after about a 9.5% move against a long. In a fast market the position can close at a worse price, and with cross margin the rest of your account can be used, so the loss can go further. For more on the liquidation price, use the Crypto Liquidation Price Calculator.

Use lower leverage, so the price has further to go before you are liquidated, and set a stop-loss well before the liquidation price. Size the trade from the amount you are willing to lose with the Crypto Position Size Calculator, and check the upside with the Leverage Profit Calculator.

No. A loss on crypto cannot be set off against other income or against gains on other crypto, and it cannot be carried forward, so a loss on one trade does not reduce the 30% tax on a profit from another. How profit from crypto futures is treated can depend on the exchange and how the contract is settled, so check with a tax professional. For the tax on a sale, use the India Crypto Tax Calculator.

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