Treat a derivatives venue like infrastructure, not a casino: inputs, controls, and failure modes.
Concept first: Latency is a risk factor. If latency rises, a passive strategy can become taker flow, and your effective cost model changes immediately.
Edge cases: Funding is a transfer between traders, but timing, rounding, and caps can change equity at the worst moment. Verify schedule and limits.
Checklist: Track funding together with basis and realized volatility. The combination is a better crowding signal than any single metric. Example: small funding transfers compound; over several cycles they can materially shift equity and your maintenance buffer. Treat cross margin as a correlated portfolio. Correlations converge during stress, so diversification can vanish when you need it most.
Final sanity check: Pitfall: treating automation as set-and-forget. Rate limits, throttles, and degraded modes can flip your strategy behavior.
Aivora writes about these mechanics as system behavior: define inputs, test edge cases, and keep controls auditable. This is educational content about mechanics, not financial advice.
Concept first: Latency is a risk factor. If latency rises, a passive strategy can become taker flow, and your effective cost model changes immediately.
Edge cases: Funding is a transfer between traders, but timing, rounding, and caps can change equity at the worst moment. Verify schedule and limits.
Checklist: Track funding together with basis and realized volatility. The combination is a better crowding signal than any single metric. Example: small funding transfers compound; over several cycles they can materially shift equity and your maintenance buffer. Treat cross margin as a correlated portfolio. Correlations converge during stress, so diversification can vanish when you need it most.
Final sanity check: Pitfall: treating automation as set-and-forget. Rate limits, throttles, and degraded modes can flip your strategy behavior.
Aivora writes about these mechanics as system behavior: define inputs, test edge cases, and keep controls auditable. This is educational content about mechanics, not financial advice.
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.