Maximum Position Sizes | dYdX Help Center

In order to ensure the safety of the exchange, each market has a maximum position size and a function which determines the margin requirement at different position sizes.

Key Definitions:

incrementalInitialMarginFraction

The increase in the initial-margin-fraction for the market for each incrementalPositionSize that the user is over the baselinePositionSize.

incrementalPositionSize

The position size between each tick of incrementalInitialMarginFraction

baselinePositionSize

The largest position size without incrementing the initial-margin-fraction

maximumPositionSize

The absolute largest position size available

The initial margin starts with 5.0% (for 20x leverage trading of ETH and BTC markets) or 10% for all other markets. After reaching the baselinePositionSize, the required margin linearly increases by the incrementalInitialMarginFraction per incrementalPositionSize

Market	Baseline Position Size	Incremental Position Size	Max Position Size	Incremental Initial Margin Fraction
BTC	25	5	500	0.01
ETH	500	100	10000	0.01
LINK	70000	14000	700000	0.02
AAVE	7000	1400	70000	0.02
UNI	100000	20000	1000000	0.02
SUSHI	200000	40000	2000000	0.02
SOL	15000	3000	150000	0.02
YFI	50	10	500	0.02
1INCH	350000	70000	3500000	0.02
AVAX	30000	6000	300000	0.02
DOGE	7000000	1400000	70000000	0.02
SNX	150000	30000	1500000	0.02
CRV	650000	130000	6500000	0.02
DOT	60000	12000	600000	0.02
MATIC	1000000	200000	10000000	0.02
MKR	500	100	5000	0.02
FIL	40000	8000	400000	0.02
ADA	1000000	200000	10000000	0.02
ATOM	70000	14000	700000	0.02
COMP	6000	1200	60000	0.02
LTC	4500	900	45000	0.02
BCH	2000	400	20000	0.02
EOS	250000	50000	2500000	0.02
UMA	2000	1000	30000	0.02
XMR	2000	400	20000	0.02
ZEC	3500	700	35000	0.02
ALGO	750000	150000	7500000	0.02
ZRX	850000	170000	8500000	0.02
ENJ	125000	25000	1200000	0.02
XLM	2000000	400000	20000000	0.02
ETC	15000	3000	150000	0.02
LUNA	1000	1000000	2000000	0.02
NEAR	70000	14000	700000	0.02
RUNE	100000	20000	1000000	0.02
CELO	35500	17700	355000	0.02
ICP	5800	2900	58000	0.02
TRX	3500000	700000	35000000	0.02
XTZ	100000	19000	970000	0.02

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