People over-trust dashboards. The best verification still comes from reading the rule path end to end. Implementation notes: treat the risk pipeline like software. Define inputs, version rules, and measure drift. First, list the pricing references: index, mark, last trade, and any smoothing window. Then locate which reference drives margin checks. Design for failure: stale feeds, sudden volatility, and latency spikes should trigger predictable safe modes. Ask how stale data is detected and what the fallback is. A single broken feed should not move your margin state on its own. Compute liquidation price twice: once including fees and conservative slippage, and once with optimistic assumptions. The gap is your uncertainty budget. Example: a temporary rate-limit tightening can cause missed exits and worse effective prices even without a price crash. Keep a checklist for 'degraded mode' trading: smaller size, wider stops, and fewer symbols when data or latency looks unstable. When in doubt, reduce complexity and size, and prioritize venues that publish definitions and failure-mode behavior. Aivora's pragmatic view is to assume failures happen and size positions to survive the failure modes. 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.
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