What $100 would have done, by leverage
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| Leverage | Held to now | Return | Worst point | Cost of the round trip | Outcome |
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Every minute in the window is walked in order and the worst price inside each bar is tested against the liquidation level before the close, so a position that was liquidated mid-window stays liquidated even if the price later recovered. Opened on the ask and marked on the bid for a long, and the reverse for a short. Indicative example based on third-party market data. Moon's reference price, spread, fees, settlement and liquidation rules may produce a different result.
What a move would mean
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| Bet | Wager | Leverage | Entry | Liquidation | Mark | Profit / Loss | Multiplier | Action |
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Leveraged LINK over the last 9.6 hours: what it gained and what it lost
Chainlink moved -0.87% in 9.6 hours, $11.527 to $11.427. $100 on the short is $101.42 at 2x and $170.79 at 100x, +70.8% against +1.4%. Wrong side at 50x, closed out after 3.1 hours. 4 of 14 rungs did not finish the window. Top survivors: 20x long, 100x short. The fee took no view on any of it: 16% of the stake to get in and out at 100x, so LINK has to hand back 0.16% before you are level, about 3% of an average session's range here.
Leveraged trading of Chainlink (LINK): what has been happening
$11.427 on the tape, +1.20% for the session and -4.70% across five. LINK is +40.23% on the month, so it arrives clearly higher. Three months reads +49.67%, year to date -9.31%. The 30-session range is $7.888 to $12.620, which puts the last price -9.45% off the high and +44.87% off the low.
How volatile is LINK right now
LINK runs 73.2% annualised volatility over 30 sessions, 60.4% over 90. Call that a proper mover. Average true range across 14 sessions is 6.26% of price, and an ordinary day swings about 3.83% either side of flat. Worst case from an open: 8.79% over 30 sessions, 11.20% over 90. Every multiplier decision on LINK is downstream of those two figures.
What leverage LINK actually survives
The ladder tops out at 10x if the requirement is surviving all 30 of the last sessions. 10x dies on 9.950%; LINK got to 8.79% at its worst. Open the window to 90 sessions and it falls to 5x. LINK has gone 0.950% against an open-price long, which is where 100x ends, on 59 of the last 90 sessions. That is 66% of them. 86 of the last 90 sessions cleared the 0.0500% that ends a 1000x position. Drop to one-minute bars and the picture gets worse: 58.4% of them clear the full 1000x distance, median bar 0.0608%.
LINK liquidation distance and hit rate by leverage
| Leverage | Liquidation distance | Sessions it was hit | Hit rate | Round-trip cost vs stake |
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| 2x | 49.9500% | 0 / 90 | 0% | 0.3% |
| 5x | 19.9500% | 0 / 90 | 0% | 0.8% |
| 10x | 9.9500% | 1 / 90 | 1% | 1.6% |
| 20x | 4.9500% | 11 / 90 | 12% | 3.2% |
| 50x | 1.9500% | 43 / 90 | 48% | 8.0% |
| 100x | 0.9500% | 59 / 90 | 66% | 16.0% |
| 200x | 0.4500% | 72 / 90 | 80% | 32.0% |
| 500x | 0.1500% | 81 / 90 | 90% | 80.0% |
| 1000x | 0.0500% | 86 / 90 | 96% | 160.0% |
Liquidation distance assumes a 5 basis point maintenance margin: an adverse move of (1 − leverage × maintenance rate) ÷ leverage. Hit count is the number of the last 90 sessions where the low fell that far below the session open, i.e. where a long opened at the open would have been liquidated intraday. Cost assumes 16 basis points of spread and fees on the round trip.
What a leveraged LINK position costs
Fees come off exposure, not off what you put up, which is where the damage hides. At 16 basis points round trip, 10x costs 1.6% of the stake to open and close and 100x costs 16%. LINK has to give back 3% of an ordinary session's range just to clear the 100x round trip. Somewhere near 625x the fee exceeds the stake, and the position is settled before LINK does anything at all.
LINK leverage questions
What leverage is realistic on LINK?
On the last 30 sessions of data the highest rung that avoided liquidation on every session was 10x, which liquidates on a 9.950% adverse move.
How far can LINK fall before a 100x long is liquidated?
0.950% at a 5 basis point maintenance margin. LINK moved at least that far against an open-price long on 59 of the last 90 sessions.
How volatile is LINK right now?
30-session realised volatility annualises to 73.2% and 14-session average true range is 6.26% of price.
Does 1000x leverage make sense on LINK?
No, and the fee schedule settles it before volatility gets a say. At 16 basis points round trip, 1000x costs 160% of the stake in spread and fees alone, so the position opens behind by more than the stake. Liquidation sits 0.0500% away, which LINK can cover in a single minute bar.
What has Chainlink done recently?
+1.20% on the last session, -4.70% over five sessions, +40.23% over a month and -9.31% year to date, inside a 30-session range of $7.888 to $12.620.
Before you take this to Moon
Everything above is derived from independent third-party market data. Moon prices its own book: the reference price, the spread it quotes, its fee schedule, its funding rate and its liquidation engine are all Moon's, and they will produce a different number from this page. Use this as a model of the mechanics on LINK, then check the live figures on Moon before committing anything.
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What this simulator is
Prices come from Twelve Data, an independent market-data vendor, and are indicative. Moon's own reference price, spread, fee schedule, funding and liquidation rules will produce a different result. No money is staked here, no order is routed, and no position exists on any venue. At 1000× leverage a 0.01% difference between this chart and Moon's settlement feed moves the position value by roughly 10% of the stake, so treat every number below as an illustration of mechanics rather than a forecast of outcome.
Leverage arithmetic used
Exposure = stake × leverage. Long P/L = exposure × (mark − entry) ÷ entry. Short P/L = exposure × (entry − mark) ÷ entry. Entry takes the ask for a long and the bid for a short; closing does the reverse, so the spread is charged on the round trip. Liquidation triggers when equity falls to the maintenance margin, i.e. at an adverse move of (1 − leverage × maintenance rate) ÷ leverage.
Jurisdiction
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