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Leverage and Perpetual Derivatives: Risks and Lessons in Crypto
The crypto market’s perpetual futures have exploded driving much of today’s trading volume.
These contracts let traders go long or short with high leverage (up to 100×), enabling big gains but also big losses.
The Recent market crises huge liquidation cascades, flash crashes and reported manipulation have underlined just how dangerous excessive leverage can be.
-Liquidation Risk:- High leverage means even small price moves can wipe out a position.
When a trader’s margin falls below the maintenance level, the exchange forces a sale a liquidation to a cover losses.
In extreme swings this can cascade. For example one October 2025 crash triggered ~$19 billion in one day forced liquidations across exchanges.
As analysts warned, using leverage is a shortcut to having really bad days when volatility strikes.
Another recent episode saw roughly $116 million of Bitcoin futures positions blown up in a single hour.
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