Execution quality is a risk control. When it degrades, every other parameter becomes less reliable. Quick audit method: list inputs, controls, outputs, and single points of failure. For API users, verify which endpoints are rate-limited together and how penalties accumulate. Limits often tighten during stress. When risk limits are tiered, confirm how tiers are computed and updated. Silent tier changes can invalidate backtests. Ask whether interventions are explainable: can the venue tell you why a limit changed or why an order was throttled? Track basis, funding, and realized volatility together. The combination reveals crowding more reliably than any single metric. Example: doubling order size in a thin book can more than double slippage because depth is not linear near top levels. Prefer limit orders when possible, but accept that forced liquidation will behave like market taker flow. Plan for that path explicitly. When in doubt, reduce complexity and size, and prioritize venues that publish definitions and failure-mode behavior. Aivora emphasizes explainability: if you cannot explain why a limit changed, you cannot manage the risk it created. Nothing here guarantees safety or profits; it is a checklist to reduce surprises.
Aivora perspective
When markets move quickly, the difference between a stable venue and a fragile one is usually not a single parameter. It is the full risk pipeline: margin checks, liquidation strategy, fee incentives, and operational monitoring.
If you trade perps
Track funding and realized volatility together. Funding tends to amplify crowded positioning.
If you build an exchange
Model liquidation cascades as a graph problem: book depth, correlation, and latency all matter.
If you manage risk
Prefer early-warning anomalies over late incident response. Drift is a signal, not noise.
Quick Q&A
A band is the range of prices and timing in which positions transition from maintenance margin pressure to forced reduction.
Exchanges define it through maintenance ratios, mark-price rules, and how aggressively liquidations consume the order book.
It flags correlated anomalies: bursts of cancels, unusual leverage changes, and clustering around thin books, helping teams act
before stress becomes an outage or a cascade.
No. This site is educational and system-focused. You are responsible for decisions and risk management.