Crypto Futures Order Controls, Funding, Margin, and Liquidation
Summary
This operational guide explains how traders can manage futures orders and positions on an exchange. It covers editing take profit and stop loss settings, setting them alongside trigger or limit orders, canceling orders in groups, and using maker-only, immediate-or-cancel, and fill-or-kill behavior. It also describes flash orders, quick posting and taking, and position reversal, including the role of available funds and pending orders.
The guide also outlines coin-margined funding payments, cross margin, margin-rate calculations, estimated liquidation prices, and maintenance-margin tiers. It explains that funding is exchanged between traders at scheduled intervals and that larger positions can require higher maintenance margin and limit available leverage. These are platform-specific operational descriptions, not a comparative analysis or a trading strategy. Some material is truncated, and the document does not provide a complete fee schedule or independent evidence about execution quality.
Key ideas
- Take profit and stop loss settings can be attached to trigger or limit orders, with different behavior when orders fill partially.
- Maker-only orders are canceled if they would execute immediately against an existing order.
- Reversal can close a position and open an opposite one, but available margin and pending orders affect the result.
- Cross margin can use shared account balances and unrealized gains to offset losses across eligible positions.
- Maintenance-margin tiers can raise requirements as position size increases.
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