5x Liquidation Calculator
See exactly where a 5× leveraged position gets liquidated - long or short, any entry. At 5×, liquidation sits only about 19.50% from your entry. Free and private.
At 5x leverage the liquidation buffer is about 19.50% of your entry. From live prices right now: a 5x BTC long from $76,880 is liquidated near $61,888, a 5x ETH long from $2,239 is liquidated near $1,803, a 5x SOL long from $95.3 is liquidated near $76.72 (0.5% maintenance margin; shorts mirror the same distance above the entry). Over the past 24 hours BTC +0.00%, ETH +0.00%, SOL +0.00% - all inside the 5x buffer this time. Market-wide, $923.7 million in leveraged positions was liquidated over the past 24 hours ($760.9 million from longs, $162.8 million from shorts).
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How far is liquidation at 5× leverage?
The liquidation buffer is approximately 1 / leverage, minus a small maintenance margin. At 5×, that's about 19.50% against your position. The wider buffer gives a stop-loss room to work, which is why beginners are steered here.
Worked example
A 5× long entered at $60,000.00 is liquidated at roughly:
Always set your stop-loss inside that level. Learn more in crypto leverage explained and how to avoid liquidation.
5× in context - liquidation distance by leverage
The same trade at different leverage levels, showing how much room each one gives before an isolated-margin long is liquidated (0.5% maintenance margin):
| Leverage | Move to liquidation | Buffer |
|---|---|---|
| 5× this page | −19.50% | comfortable |
| 10× | −9.50% | comfortable |
| 20× | −4.50% | thin |
| 25× | −3.50% | thin |
| 50× | −1.50% | extremely thin |
| 100× | −0.50% | extremely thin |
Who 5× leverage is for
5× is the sensible starting range. The ~19.5% buffer gives a stop-loss room to work without a routine pullback wiping you out, which is why disciplined traders - and every beginner - should live here far more often than at the 50–125× end.
How to survive 5× leverage
- Set the stop first. Decide your invalidation price, then size the position so that stop equals a fixed % of your account (1–2%). The position-size calculator does the math.
- Keep liquidation far from your stop. If liquidation and your stop are almost on top of each other, a wick can beat your stop to the punch - lower the leverage or widen the stop.
- Count fees and funding. Both eat margin and pull liquidation closer than the raw 19.50% - model them with the funding calculator.
- Rehearse it first. Open the same 5× trade on the paper-trading terminal at live prices, risk-free, until the liquidation behaviour is muscle memory.
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Educational tool, not financial advice. Estimates exclude fees and funding and may differ from your exchange.
Maintenance margin, fee tiers and funding intervals differ per exchange - these are the ones this calculator is modelled on.
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