Margin Requirement

Overview

Margin requirement refers to the percentage of marginable assets that an trader is obliged to pay with his own assets. The margin requirement can be further subdivided into the Initial Margin Requirement and Maintenance Margin Requirement.

Should you have positions in several symbols of one trading pool, a total margin requirement would be calculated for all of your positions of the same pool. Please note accordingly, forced liquidations are executed on the account level too. In that case, you would lose all of your margin balance, i.e. your margin balance would become 0. For more details refer to our

Initial margin requirement

An initial margin requirement means the % of assets that is required if an investor opens a position.

The minimum Initial Maintenance Margin requirements of the specific Trading Symbol can be found on the Contract Info panel on the trading interface after selecting the Trading Symbol

Everlasting Options

Unlike the fixed margin requirement for Perpetual Futures, Everlasting Options adopt a Greek-based margin mechanism, which can be viewed on the contract info page.

Maintenance Margin Requirement

Once the position is opened, the margin requirement represents the percentage quantity of assets that the investor must maintain in the margin account. This is called the "Maintenance Margin Requirement". If the investor is not able to keep the percentage quantity of assets above the Maintenance Margin Requirement, account level liquidation will occur.

The minimum Maintenance Margin requirements of the specific Trading Symbol can be found on the Contract Info panel on the trading interface after selecting the Trading Symbol

Perpetual Futures

The Maintenance Margin Requirement always fixed for perpetual futures. You can find the maintenance margin requirement at the Contract Info.

Everlasting Options

Unlike the fixed margin requirement for Perpetual Futures, Everlasting Options adopt a Greek-based margin mechanism, which can be viewed on the contract info page.