A stop past liquidation protects nothing
High leverage pulls liquidation right up against your entry, and a stop set beyond it never executes. This tool tells you plainly whether your stop is real protection or decoration. Find a leverage that leaves room on the safe leverage calculator.
Is your stop even inside the playable zone?
At leverage, two exits stand behind your position: your stop-loss and the exchange's liquidation. If the stop sits farther from entry than the liquidation price, it will never fire — the exchange gets there first and takes the maintenance margin penalty with it. This calculator measures the gap and tells you which side of that line you're on.
The line moves with leverage: liquidation sits ~9.5% out at 10x, ~3.5% at 25x, ~1.5% at 50x. A "conservative" 4% stop is fine at 10x, dead letter at 25x, and fantasy at 50x. Every leverage tier has a maximum honest stop distance, and it shrinks faster than intuition suggests.
The working rule: place stops at no more than 60–70% of the liquidation distance, leaving room for wick-through and execution lag on fast candles. If the stop your analysis wants doesn't fit inside that budget, the analysis isn't wrong — the leverage is. Reduce until the stop fits; that's the trade telling you its true maximum size.