If a venue cannot explain a control, you cannot manage the risk it creates. Testing guide: use small-size experiments to validate edge cases before deploying serious capital. Test marks vs index under fast moves, then test liquidation math with fees and conservative slippage assumptions. When risk limits are tiered, confirm how tiers are computed and updated. Silent tier changes can invalidate backtests. Example: a 0.05% extra cost on forced execution can erase multiple margin steps when leverage is high and moves are fast. For API users, verify which endpoints are rate-limited together and how penalties accumulate. Limits often tighten during stress. Then test degraded mode: what changes when rate limits tighten or when the venue throttles your order flow. Compute liquidation price twice: once including fees and conservative slippage, and once with optimistic assumptions. The gap is your uncertainty budget. Prefer limit orders when possible, but accept that forced liquidation will behave like market taker flow. Plan for that path explicitly. Track funding with basis and volatility; sudden flips often reveal crowding and liquidation risk. Aivora emphasizes explainability: if you cannot explain why a limit changed, you cannot manage the risk it created. This is educational content about mechanics, not financial advice.
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.