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Can I change the leverage of my existing position and open orders?
Can I change the leverage of my existing position and open orders?
Updated over 4 months ago

Given an initial leverage and existing position & open orders,

  1. To free up some margin occupied, users are allowed to increase the leverage but it is up to the Max Leverage according to the existing “Oder-Adjusted Position Size”.

  2. To be more risk conservative, users are also allowed to decrease the leverage (which will need more margin for the current position and open orders), but it is up to margin balance.

The following are some examples:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Max Leverage

(1) Initial leverage = 30

(2) Current Size = 70 BTC

In Tier 3, Max Leverage = 33.33

Only allow to increase up to 33.33

(1) Initial leverage = 30

(2) Current Size = 25 BTC

In Tier 2, Max Leverage = 40

Only allow to increase up to 40

(1) Initial leverage = 30

(2) Current Size = 5 BTC

In Tier 1, Max Leverage = 50

Only allow to increase up to 50

Min Leverage

Need to guarantee:

Mark Price * Size / New Leverage <= Margin Balance

Therefore

Min Leverage = ( Mark Price * Size ) / Margin Balance

Note:

  • The size in the above refers to the “Oder-Adjusted Position Size”.

  • If there are multiple products in the portfolio, the Margin Balance for determining the minimum leverage of a specific perpetual or future should exclude the IMs occupied by other products.

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