Margin Call Calculator
Calculate your liquidation price dynamically based on leverage, account balance, and maintenance margin rules across markets.
Margin Call Calculator
Determine exactly what price a stock must fall to before your broker issues a margin call.
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Margin Call Price
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If the price drops below this, you must deposit more funds.
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Your Equity—
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How to Use Margin Call Calculator in 3 Easy Steps
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Step 1
Enter your total account balance, trade entry price, and precise position size.
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Adjust your leverage slider and indicate if your position is long or short.
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Set your specific broker maintenance margin rules to generate your exact liquidation price.
Frequently Asked Questions
Maintenance margin is the absolute minimum amount of account equity that an active trader must maintain to keep a leveraged trade open. If your active, floating losses consume your account equity to the point where it breaches this percentage, the exchange seizes control of the trade.
In traditional finance (equities), a margin call is a warning alert demanding you deposit more cash into your account immediately to satisfy the maintenance requirements. In high-frequency, unregulated cryptocurrency futures, a "margin call" rarely exists—the exchange simply triggers an instant, algorithmic liquidation.
Leverage mathematically compresses the distance between your entry price and your liquidation price. At 2x leverage, the asset must drop roughly 50% to trigger ruin. At 100x leverage, a minuscule 1% move against your position obliterates your entire allocated margin.
Exchanges will never allow your account balance to slip into the negative, as this puts the broker’s own funds at risk. They liquidate you early based on the maintenance margin rule. The leftover fraction of a percentage pays for exchange liquidation fees and slippage protection.
Yes. In perpetual futures markets and heavily margined stock accounts, borrowing money incurs daily or hourly fees. These continuous, silent deductions are taken directly from your margin equity. As your equity shrinks due to fee bleed, your liquidation target slowly inches closer to the current price.