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Ethereum Liquidation Price Alert on Binance

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a $1,500 Ethereum long at $2,609 and 25x on Binance gets liq'd at $2,515 — 3.60% of room, $93.92.

how it's computed

this page runs entry × (1 − 1/leverage + mmr) against Binance's real bracket for that size (0.40% mmr), not a flat guess, and arms the alert before the wick gets there.

$2,609funding0.0001%24h liqs$498M · eth $159M68,974 rekt
leverage
margin at 25x
$60
mmr at this size
0.40%
bracket max leverage
150x
funding if held 24h
$0.68
ETHUSDTperplong 25xisolated
liq at mark
$2,5153.60% room · $93.92
Binance

alert at $2,561

liq $2,515mark $2,609

if the wick tags $2,515, the ~$60 of margin on this position is gone. the scream is free.

free: 2 alerts, no card · unlimited + night mode $9/mo — one wick costs more

the short version

how to use this tool

type an entry, drag the leverage, pick a side. the number above is the price where the exchange force-closes you — computed with the venue's actual maintenance-margin brackets, not a flat 0.5% guess. no signup, no api key, nothing leaves your browser except the mark price you asked for.

how this number is computed

your leverage and Binance's maintenance rate for your size set the room; lower the leverage to widen it.

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this page models isolated margin: liq = entry × (1 − 1/leverage + mmr) for longs, entry × (1 + 1/leverage − mmr) for shorts. mmr comes from Binance's bracket table for ETH, picked by your position's notional.

on cross margin the whole wallet is the buffer, so the real liq floats with your balance — treat this number as the closest the engine could reach you. estimate — exchanges compute exact liq from live margin; always double-check on your venue.

worked example: ETH long at 25x, $1,500 notional

ETH long from $2,609 at 25x: liquidated at $2,515, 3.60% below entry.

liq$2,515alert$2,561entry$2,6093.60% of room · $93.92
entry
$2,609
leverage
25x (bracket max for this size: 150x)
maintenance margin rate
0.40%
liquidation price
$2,515
distance from entry
3.60% ($93.92)
funding if held 24h @ example rate
$0.68
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you're long ETH at $2,609, 25x, $1,500 notional. Binance charges 0.40% maintenance margin at that size: $2,609 × (1 − 1/25 + 0.004) = $2,515.

that's $93.92 of room — 3.60%. a 2.0% day is normal for ethereum — tight by perp standards, which is exactly how accounts end up at 50x on it. the widest measured day still ran 4.6%, and the range being small does not make the leverage small: 2.0% is the tightest stop that clears the coin's own noise, and at 50x a 2.0% move is the whole position. funding at the example rate costs $0.68 a day on this size, and on isolated margin it comes out of that same room.

Binance's ETH margin brackets, in words

bigger positions pay a higher maintenance rate, which pulls the liq closer at the same leverage.

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binance prices ETH in brackets, not at one flat rate: the first runs to $300,000 notional at 0.40% maintenance margin and 150x max. clear it and the next runs to $800,000 at 0.50% and 100x.

the bracket follows notional, so a winning position can grow into a higher one. this page stores Binance's first 5 brackets for ETH and holds the last rate flat past them — check very large sizes on the venue itself.

binance runs the deepest perp book in the world, which cuts both ways: your stop fills at a real price, and your liquidation fills at a real price too. there is no thin-book mercy on binance.

Ethereum specifics

leave room for Ethereum's normal wick, not its average day.

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ethereum grinds rather than wicks: 2.0% of minute-to-minute movement under a 2.0% typical day. a whole session takes accounts out here, not one candle. $424M across 16086 forced closes in 7 days, none over 6% of it: attrition, not one event, 71% of it liquidated longs.

a stop loss is not a liquidation plan

the wick through your liq is what kills you. the alert reaches you while you can still act.

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forced liquidations are market orders into the book that just moved against you, so the fill lands worse than the trigger. and leverage creeps: 5x becomes 10x after a win, and each time you double it the room more than halves.

a stop only triggers, and in a cascade it fills into the same wick as the engine. the alert fires earlier, while you can still close at a real price or add margin and push the liq away. free, no signup.

binance vs bybit vs hyperliquid vs okx for this coin

same position, different venue, different liq: the lower maintenance rate at your size is free room.

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on ETH the first bracket is not the same trade on every venue: bybit runs 0.33% to $300,000 at 150x, hyperliquid 2.00% to $100,000,000 at 25x. bybit is the cheaper first bracket by 1.67% of entry on the same position.

run your entry and size through each venue with the links below — the extra room on the lower-rate venue costs nothing.

faq

is this liquidation price exact?

no — it's the isolated-margin approximation with your venue's real mmr brackets: liq = entry × (1 − 1/leverage ± mmr). exchanges also deduct liquidation fees and use their own index price, so their number can differ by a few tenths of a percent. estimate — exchanges compute exact liq from live margin; always double-check on your venue.

what's the difference between isolated and cross margin here?

isolated margin risks only the position's collateral; cross margin risks the whole wallet. the formula on this page is the isolated estimate. on cross, your real liq floats with your wallet balance — the more spare balance you hold, the further away liquidation sits, and this page can't see your wallet.

why did my liquidation price move after i opened the position?

mmr brackets are chosen by notional. if your position's value crossed a bracket boundary — because price moved or because you added size — the maintenance rate changed, and the liq price moved with it. check your bracket after any size change.

i already have a stop loss — why do i need a liquidation alert?

a stop loss is a pre-committed exit; the alarm is the room you have left to decide. three things a stop can't do: in a cascade your stop fills as a market order into the wick — at 20x+ the exchange's liquidation engine can fill first, with the insurance-fund fee on top. it can't tell you a funding debit just moved your liq closer. and it can't watch the book at 3am. closing early at a real price — or adding margin to push the liq away — beats being force-closed, and both need the warning, not the trigger. keep the stop. arm the alarm so the exit stays your choice.

why do two venues show different liq prices for the same trade?

different mmr bracket tables, different fee models, different mark-price composition. the same 20x btc long can carry 0.4% mmr in one bracket and 0.5% in another — run the same size through each venue's page on this site and compare; the gap is the cost of choosing the wrong venue.

how close is too close to my liquidation price?

there's no safe number, only a number you can survive: a 2% buffer on btc is a normal afternoon; the same 2% on sol is noise. if a routine wick in the coin's normal range can reach your liq, the position is already too big — size it again with the position size alert.

walk me through the ETH example on this page

ETH long at 25x, $1,500 notional: entry $2,609; leverage 25x (bracket max for this size: 150x); maintenance margin rate 0.40%; liquidation price $2,515; distance from entry 3.60% ($93.92); funding if held 24h @ example rate $0.68. the full narrative is in the explainer above — and estimate — exchanges compute exact liq from live margin; always double-check on your venue.

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