ZEC Liquidation Calculator
Find your exact Zcash (ZEC) liquidation price — for any leverage, long or short. Free, instant and private (it runs in your browser).
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ZEC is trading at $506 right now, little changed over the past 24 hours. From this price, a long is liquidated near $458 at 10x, $488 at 25x, $498 at 50x and $503 at 100x (0.5% maintenance margin) — short levels mirror the same distances above the price. The past 24 hours were quiet for ZEC — the move stayed inside even a 100x buffer, which is the exception rather than the rule. This is not theoretical: $1.4 million of ZEC positions was actually liquidated in the past 24 hours, split fairly evenly between longs and shorts. Funding is +0.0088% — ZEC longs are also paying shorts to hold, on top of the liquidation risk.
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How ZEC liquidation works
Zcash perps are privacy-coin volatile and can gap on regulatory or listing news. Liquidation happens when losses eat through the margin backing your position — the exchange force-closes it to stop the loss going past your collateral. The isolated-margin estimate is Entry × (1 − 1/Leverage + MMR) for a long and Entry × (1 + 1/Leverage − MMR) for a short, where MMR is the maintenance margin rate (about 0.5% on most ZEC perpetuals). ZEC futures list up to 50× leverage across the major venues, but the headline cap is a trap: the higher you go, the closer liquidation sits to your entry.
ZEC liquidation distance by leverage
How far Zcash has to move against an isolated-margin long before it is liquidated, at a 0.5% maintenance margin:
| Leverage | Move to liquidation | Initial margin |
|---|---|---|
| 5× | −19.50% | 20.00% |
| 10× | −9.50% | 10.00% |
| 25× | −3.50% | 4.00% |
| 50× | −1.50% | 2.00% |
At 100× a move of just ~1% wipes the position; at 5× you get roughly 19.5% of room. Because Zcash routinely moves several percent in a session, most traders who last keep ZEC leverage in the low-to-mid range and let the position breathe.
Worked example — 10× ZEC long
A 10× ZEC long entered at $45 with a 0.5% maintenance margin rate is liquidated at about:
Enter your own numbers above — the calculator prefills the live ZEC price, so you can see exactly where a real position would be wiped right now. Set your stop-loss comfortably inside that level and size by risk.
Common ways ZEC traders get liquidated
- Chasing max leverage. 50× on ZEC means a ~2.00% wick against you is game over — and ZEC prints wicks like that regularly.
- No stop-loss. Without a stop, the exchange's liquidation engine becomes your exit — at the worst possible price, plus a liquidation fee.
- Ignoring funding. On a crowded ZEC trade, funding drains your margin every 8 hours, nudging liquidation closer than the raw price math shows.
- Sizing by dollars, not risk. Size from your stop distance instead — see the position-size calculator.
See ZEC liquidations happen live
Numbers are one thing; watching real leverage get wiped is another. The live liquidations feed and the Rekt ticker show ZEC longs and shorts being force-closed across Binance, Bybit and OKX in real time — a spike in long liquidations often marks local capitulation, a spike in shorts a squeeze. Then rehearse the trade with zero risk on the ZEC paper-trading terminal at the live price, and screen the whole market on the futures screener.
FAQ
At what percentage is a ZEC position liquidated?
Roughly 1 ÷ leverage, minus the maintenance margin. A 10× ZEC position is liquidated after about a 9–10% adverse move; 25× after ~4%; 100× after ~1%.
Does the ZEC liquidation price change with position size?
For isolated margin, no — the liquidation price depends on entry, leverage and MMR, not on how big the position is. For cross margin your whole wallet balance backs the trade, which pushes liquidation further away; model that with the cross-margin calculator.
Is this ZEC liquidation calculator accurate?
It uses the standard isolated-margin formula and your exchange's maintenance margin. Real liquidation can differ slightly because of fees, funding and tiered maintenance margin on very large positions — treat the figure as a close estimate and leave a buffer.
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