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
0.00%My positions
| Bet | Wager | Leverage | Entry | Liquidation | Mark | Profit / Loss | Multiplier | Action |
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Leveraged SPY over the last 6.5 hours: what it gained and what it lost
6.5 hours, -0.04% net. Nobody got paid for a view on SPY. Here is the ugly part: the short was the correct side and 100x still lost money, $88.24 left of $100. The round trip cost 16% of the stake and the move only paid 0.04%. The 50x long survived on $89.88. That is a hostage, not a position. 2 of 14 rungs did not finish the window. All of them inside the first minute. 100x was the top rung left standing either way. None of that touches the 16% the round trip already took. SPY owes 0.16% to square it, roughly 25% of a normal session.
Leveraged trading of S&P 500 ETF (SPY): what has been happening
$765.84 last, +0.31% on the session, -0.20% across five. SPY is +3.62% on the month, so it arrives grinding higher. Three months reads +2.03%, year to date +12.10%. The 30-session range is $729.10 to $779.37, which puts the last price -1.74% off the high and +5.04% off the low.
How volatile is SPY right now
Realised volatility over 30 sessions annualises to 12.3%, against 12.8% over 90. By leveraged standards that is a bond fund with a ticker. Average true range across 14 sessions is 0.63% of price, and an ordinary day swings about 0.78% either side of flat. Worst case from an open: 1.47% over 30 sessions, 2.83% over 90. Every multiplier decision on SPY is downstream of those two figures.
What leverage SPY actually survives
Run the last 30 sessions and 50x is the top rung that never got closed out. Its liquidation sits 1.950% away, against a worst session of 1.47%. Open the window to 90 sessions and it falls to 20x. SPY has gone 0.950% against an open-price long, which is where 100x ends, on 11 of the last 90 sessions. That is 12% of them. For 1000x the requirement is 0.0500%, met on 81 of 90 sessions. Per minute rather than per session: median bar 0.0109%, and 3.2% of them would close 1000x without any help from the rest of the day.
SPY 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% | 0 / 90 | 0% | 1.6% |
| 20x | 4.9500% | 0 / 90 | 0% | 3.2% |
| 50x | 1.9500% | 2 / 90 | 2% | 8.0% |
| 100x | 0.9500% | 11 / 90 | 12% | 16.0% |
| 200x | 0.4500% | 39 / 90 | 43% | 32.0% |
| 500x | 0.1500% | 69 / 90 | 77% | 80.0% |
| 1000x | 0.0500% | 81 / 90 | 90% | 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 SPY position costs
Turn the slider up and the fee turns up with it. 16 basis points round trip is 1.6% of the stake at 10x, 16% at 100x. That bill is 25% of a typical SPY session's range, and the move has to find it before it finds you. Past roughly 625x the round trip costs more than the whole stake. Above that line you are not trading SPY, you are paying to watch it.
SPY leverage questions
What leverage is realistic on SPY?
On the last 30 sessions of data the highest rung that avoided liquidation on every session was 50x, which liquidates on a 1.950% adverse move.
How far can SPY fall before a 100x long is liquidated?
0.950% at a 5 basis point maintenance margin. SPY moved at least that far against an open-price long on 11 of the last 90 sessions.
How volatile is SPY right now?
30-session realised volatility annualises to 12.3% and 14-session average true range is 0.63% of price.
Does 1000x leverage make sense on SPY?
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 SPY can cover in a single minute bar.
What has S&P 500 ETF done recently?
+0.31% on the last session, -0.20% over five sessions, +3.62% over a month and +12.10% year to date, inside a 30-session range of $729.10 to $779.37.
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 SPY, 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.
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