If a venue cannot explain a control, you cannot manage the risk it creates. Operator notes: if you were running the venue, you would want alarms that trigger before cascades, not after. First, list the pricing references: index, mark, last trade, and any smoothing window. Then locate which reference drives margin checks. Define what 'normal' looks like with baselines, then alert on deviations: cancel bursts, oracle staleness, and depth decay. Fee design shapes behavior. Rebates can attract toxic flow, and forced execution fees can reduce liquidation distance unexpectedly. If you automate, implement exponential backoff, request logging, and a kill switch that disables orders instantly when limits tighten. Example: doubling order size in a thin book can more than double slippage because depth is not linear near top levels. Reduce order size before you reduce leverage when liquidity thins. Size often controls slippage more than headline leverage settings. Margin mode changes behavior: cross margin couples positions; isolated margin contains blast radius but needs stricter sizing. Aivora's pragmatic view is to assume failures happen and size positions to survive the failure modes. Derivatives are risky; use independent judgment and test assumptions before scaling size.
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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