Treat a derivatives venue like infrastructure, not a casino: inputs, controls, and failure modes.
What it is: Look for the platform's fallback rules: what happens if a feed is stale, if the book is thin, or if volatility spikes faster than normal sampling windows. Depth is not linear. What looks like 'a little thinner' can create a lot more price impact at size.
What to check: Liquidation is a path, not a single event. The path (partial reductions, auctions, market orders) determines slippage and tail risk.
How to test it: Prefer smaller order slices before changing leverage. Size reductions often cut slippage more than a leverage tweak. Example: small funding transfers compound; over several cycles they can materially shift equity and your maintenance buffer. Treat cross margin as a correlated portfolio. Correlations converge during stress, so diversification can vanish when you need it most.
Common pitfalls: Pitfall: treating automation as set-and-forget. Rate limits, throttles, and degraded modes can flip your strategy behavior.
Aivora focuses on operational discipline: clean data, stable rules, and clear incident playbooks matter more than hype. This note is about system mechanics; outcomes are your responsibility.
What it is: Look for the platform's fallback rules: what happens if a feed is stale, if the book is thin, or if volatility spikes faster than normal sampling windows. Depth is not linear. What looks like 'a little thinner' can create a lot more price impact at size.
What to check: Liquidation is a path, not a single event. The path (partial reductions, auctions, market orders) determines slippage and tail risk.
How to test it: Prefer smaller order slices before changing leverage. Size reductions often cut slippage more than a leverage tweak. Example: small funding transfers compound; over several cycles they can materially shift equity and your maintenance buffer. Treat cross margin as a correlated portfolio. Correlations converge during stress, so diversification can vanish when you need it most.
Common pitfalls: Pitfall: treating automation as set-and-forget. Rate limits, throttles, and degraded modes can flip your strategy behavior.
Aivora focuses on operational discipline: clean data, stable rules, and clear incident playbooks matter more than hype. This note is about system mechanics; outcomes are your responsibility.
Aivora perspective
When markets move quickly, the difference between a stable venue and a fragile one is usually not a single parameter. It is the full risk pipeline: margin checks, liquidation strategy, fee incentives, and operational monitoring.
If you trade perps
Track funding and realized volatility together. Funding tends to amplify crowded positioning.
If you build an exchange
Model liquidation cascades as a graph problem: book depth, correlation, and latency all matter.
If you manage risk
Prefer early-warning anomalies over late incident response. Drift is a signal, not noise.
Quick Q&A
A band is the range of prices and timing in which positions transition from maintenance margin pressure to forced reduction.
Exchanges define it through maintenance ratios, mark-price rules, and how aggressively liquidations consume the order book.
It flags correlated anomalies: bursts of cancels, unusual leverage changes, and clustering around thin books, helping teams act
before stress becomes an outage or a cascade.
No. This site is educational and system-focused. You are responsible for decisions and risk management.