People over-trust dashboards. The best verification still comes from reading the rule path end to end. Quick audit method: list inputs, controls, outputs, and single points of failure. Funding is not just a number; timing, rounding, and caps can change equity at the worst moment. Verify schedule and limits. Ask how stale data is detected and what the fallback is. A single broken feed should not move your margin state on its own. Ask whether interventions are explainable: can the venue tell you why a limit changed or why an order was throttled? Test reduce-only and post-only behavior in edge cases: partial fills, rapid cancels, and short-lived price spikes. Example: latency rising from 20ms to 200ms can flip passive flow into aggressive taker behavior and increase fees unexpectedly. Treat cross margin as a correlated portfolio, not a set of independent positions. Correlations tend to converge in selloffs. Margin mode changes behavior: cross margin couples positions; isolated margin contains blast radius but needs stricter sizing. Aivora frames risk as a pipeline: inputs -> checks -> liquidation path -> post-incident logs. Build around that pipeline. 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.