Moon.com liquidation: the move that ends your bet, tier by tier

Moon.com liquidation works on one rule: your bet is closed when the price moves against you by approximately 100% divided by your leverage, before spread and fees. At 10x that is a 10% move, at 100x it is 1%, and at 1000x it is 0.1%. The stake you put into the bet is the most you can lose, and there is no margin call or negative balance afterward, so you always know your worst case before you tap Up or Down. Sign up through our referral link and put a play-money bet on at 1000x to see the mechanic play out before any real crypto is involved.

This page gives you the liquidation distance at every tier, what actually happens to your balance when it triggers, how to size a bet around it, and why the real line sits a little closer than the headline number. For the underlying mechanic, start with how Moon works; for your own numbers, the leverage calculator does the arithmetic live.

• 0.1% Liquidation at 1000x
• 1% Liquidation at 100x
• 10% Liquidation at 10x
• Your stake Maximum loss per bet

How far away is liquidation at each leverage tier?

The distance is the adverse move that turns your whole stake into loss. Since your loss is exposure × move, and exposure is stake × leverage, the stake is gone when move × leverage reaches 100%. Rearranged, that is 100% ÷ leverage. The table uses a $100 stake and, to make the percentages concrete, shows what each move looks like on an asset priced at $50,000. Every figure is before spread and fees.

Read the table as a time scale rather than a price scale. A 10% move on Bitcoin or Tesla is a bad week or a memorable day. A 1% move is an ordinary hour. A 0.1% move is a couple of ticks, crossed in both directions many times an hour. The higher the tier, the more your bet is about the next few minutes rather than the direction of the market.

At 1x, liquidation needs the price to go to zero, so the fees are what matter at that tier, and the fees guide covers them. At 1000x, the 0.1% line is inside the normal noise of a quiet market, which is why the 1000x question gets its own answer below.

What actually happens when you get liquidated on Moon?

Liquidation is Moon closing the bet for you at the moment the loss on it reaches your stake. Four things follow, and all of them happen at once.

The bet closes. There is no warning state, no request to add funds and no option to hold on. The position is simply closed and your balance is lower.

The stake is lost. Whatever you put into that bet is gone. If you staked $100, the loss is $100.

Nothing is owed beyond the stake. Moon’s structure has no margin call and no negative balance. Your account balance drops by the stake and stops there, which is a real difference from leveraged trading on some exchanges.

The opening fee is already paid. The 1% opening fee was charged on the stake when you opened, so a liquidated $100 bet has cost you $101 in total. Any holding fees assessed while the bet was open are gone too. The performance fee does not apply, because there was no profit.

Liquidation is per bet, not per account: a $100 bet that gets closed leaves the other $400 in your balance where it was.

Why the real liquidation point is closer than the headline number

The 100% ÷ leverage rule is the outer limit. Two published features of Moon’s pricing pull the actual trigger closer, and neither one is disclosed as a number.

The spread. Moon’s terms reserve a spread or other pricing edge in Moon’s favor, applied at close. In practice the price you open at is tilted slightly against you, so part of your buffer is spent the instant the bet is placed. The effect scales with leverage. Illustratively, if the spread were 0.02%, a 10x bet would lose 0.02 points of a 10% buffer, which is nothing, while a 1000x bet would lose 0.02 points of a 0.1% buffer, a fifth of the whole distance. The real spread size isn’t published, so treat that as an example of the shape of the effect rather than a measurement.

The holding fee. Moon assesses it every 8 hours at a dynamic rate it doesn’t publish. To the extent that fee comes out of the bet rather than your general balance, each assessment shrinks the cushion between the current price and the liquidation point, so a bet that survives 24 hours has paid three assessments and has less room than it started with. Moon hasn’t published how the fee interacts with the liquidation calculation, which is one more reason not to hold a high-leverage bet across an 8-hour boundary.

Put together: at 10x, the gap between the headline 10% and the real figure is noise. At 100x it is noticeable. At 1000x it is the difference between a bet that survives a few ticks and one that doesn’t.

How do you size a bet around liquidation?

None of this is advice on what to bet on. It’s the arithmetic of staying away from the line.

Start with the loss, not the payout. The stake is the only number that is both under your control and equal to your worst case. Pick it as an amount you have already decided to lose, then choose leverage. Starting from the profit you want instead is how people end up at 1000x on a bet they meant to hold for an hour.

Match leverage to the move you expect, over the time you expect. If you think an asset will move 2% over the next few hours, a 10x bet gives you a 10% buffer, five times the move you are betting on. A 100x bet gives you a 1% buffer, half the move, so the ordinary back-and-forth on the way to your target can liquidate you before you get there.

Keep a buffer that is a multiple of the normal noise. A rough working ratio is a liquidation distance at least two to three times the asset’s routine move over your holding period. The leverage calculator shows the distance for any stake and tier so you can check before you open.

Shorten the time at high tiers. At 250x and above the buffer is under half a percent, so the bet is a call on the next few minutes. Plan the close before the open, which also keeps you inside the 8-hour holding-fee window.

There is no averaging in. Moon describes no way to add funds to an open bet, so a plan that relies on “topping up if it goes against me” has nothing to attach to. Each bet has to be sized correctly on its own.

Where to go next

The liquidations page lists the largest liquidations we have seen on Moon, and the live page shows them as they happen. The play-money mode is the cheapest way to learn how fast a high-tier liquidation arrives. The fees guide walks through the opening, holding and performance fees on winning and losing bets, and the promo code page covers the rakeback that returns 3.5% of those fees; check your rewards tab after signing up to confirm it’s active. If a run of liquidations starts to feel like something to chase, Moon’s Take a Break tool locks the account for one day to three months, and the responsible gambling page explains it along with self-exclusion. Availability by country is covered in the FAQ.