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Binance Updates Liquidation Fees: What Traders Need to Know (2024-08-12)

Learn about Binance's latest updates to its liquidation fee structure effective August 12, 2024. Understand key changes, margin trading concepts, and how these updates impact traders.
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Important Updates to Binance Margin Liquidation Fees (2024-08-12)

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced significant changes to its liquidation fee structure, effective August 12, 2024, at 06:00 UTC. These updates aim to enhance user protection and ensure market stability.

Key Changes:

  • Cross Margin: Fee remains unchanged at 2% of liquidated assets.
  • Cross Margin Pro: Fee increase from 2% to 3% of liquidated assets.
  • Isolated Margin: Transition from a multi-tier system to a fixed rate of 2% of liquidated assets.

These changes could significantly impact traders' strategies, especially those actively using margin trading on the Binance platform. Traders should consider these changes when planning their strategies for the period after August 12, 2024.

Key Concepts of Margin Trading

Margin Trading - Trading using borrowed funds, allowing traders to increase position size and potential profit.

Types of Margin Trading Accounts

Isolated Margin

  • Each leverage (position) has its own margin.
  • Losses on one position do not affect the rest of your account.
  • If the balance of a position reaches zero, it is automatically liquidated.

Cross Margin

  • All funds in your margin account are used to maintain all your positions.
  • Reduces the risk of liquidation for individual positions.
  • Increases the risk for the entire account.

Steps to Start Margin Trading

  1. Transfer: Move assets to the margin account.
  1. Borrow: Choose an asset to borrow.
  1. Trade: Start trading on the margin trading page.
  1. Repay: Return borrowed funds.

Margin Insurance Fund on Crypto Exchanges

What is it?

The margin insurance fund covers losses when:

  • The capital in the margin account becomes negative.
  • The user cannot repay the crypto loan.

What is a Liquidation Fee?

  • The platform invests liquidation fees and part of the income from margin trading and crypto loans into the insurance fund.
  • This fee is displayed in the liquidation fee history on the margin account.
  • The user's liquidation price will not change as a result of these fees.

How to Check Your Insurance Coverage Amount

Types of Positions in Margin Trading

Short (Sell) on Margin Trading

  • Borrow funds to sell an asset you don't own, intending to buy it back later at a lower price.
  • Profit from the difference if the price falls, minus fees.
  • High risk and requires careful market analysis and risk management.

Example
  1. Asset selection: Decide that the price of Bitcoin (BTC) (current price $50,000) will decrease.
  2. Opening a short position: Borrow 0.1 BTC and sell it at $50,000, receiving $5,000.
  3. Waiting for price decrease: The price falls to $45,000.
  4. Closing the position: Buy 0.1 BTC at $45,000, spending $4,500.
  5. Returning the cryptocurrency and calculating profit: Return 0.1 BTC to the exchange. Profit is $500 ($5,000 - $4,500).

Long (Buy) on Margin Trading

  • Borrow funds to buy an asset expecting its price to rise.
  • Profit from the difference if the price increases, minus fees.
  • Involves high risk and requires careful market analysis and risk management.

Example
  1. Asset selection: Decide that the price of Bitcoin (BTC) (current price $50,000) will increase.
  2. Opening a long position: Borrow $10,000 and buy 0.2 BTC at $50,000, spending $10,000.
  3. Waiting for price increase: The price rises to $55,000.
  4. Closing the position: Sell 0.2 BTC at $55,000, receiving $11,000.
  5. Repaying the loan and calculating profit: Return $10,000 to the exchange. Profit is $1,000 ($11,000 - $10,000).

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