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Binance futures: leverage, margin, liquidation and fee tips.
Leverage limits are set by notional brackets. Growing a position moves it into a bracket with a higher maintenance requirement — which can pull liquidation closer even as you add margin.
Margin ratio compares your maintenance requirement against your margin balance. At 100% the position is liquidated — and unrealised losses and funding both push it up.
Liquidation is triggered by mark price, not last price, when your margin ratio reaches maintenance. Leverage decides how far that level sits from your entry.
Compare net positioning with separate long and short legs, including order side, margin risk, costs and checks before switching.
Use Reduce Only to shrink a long or short without opening the opposite position when exit orders exceed current size.
Calculate long and short PnL, margin-based ROE, and the effect of fees and funding with one BTC position.
Calculate a funding payment from position notional, understand positive and negative rates, and monitor changing settlement intervals.
What does one Binance Futures trade actually cost? Full 2026 breakdown of maker/taker rates on USDT-M and COIN-M, the BNB discount, funding rate mechanics, and the liquidation fee most traders forget — with a worked example on a 10,000 USDT position.