Author: Inna Golovachyova, doesn’t keep her pocket wider, spends all her free time blowing her mustache.

Imagine you enter the exchange like it's a ball, in full attire, with 1000 bucks in your pocket, preparing for a brilliant long on BTC, setting a limit order, leverage 25x, everything in order, and then bam! - in the 'order value' field, it magically says 919. Piupiu.

What is this premium fee for entering Carnegie Hall? Who pressed $81? Is it Biden again?

The answer is simple and elegant, like the movement of a sneaky hand in a crowded subway, it’s the exchange's damn pickpocket, only it works legally, and it's called Volatility Buffer.

I tip my hat.

🎢 What is this buffer?

When you place a limit order with leverage (especially in cross-margin), the exchange does a clever trick:

👉 it reserves not the entire amount you wanted to throw in, but exactly as much as needed to open the position + a buffer in case of drama on the chart.

🧯 It's their way of saying 'we won't let you go all-in on your salary, what if the chart suddenly gives a downward candle, and you forget about the stop'.

💰 Why did 1000 USDT turn into 919 USDT?

Because:

- the count does not start from your desire, but from calculating the position size (in BTC), which is rounded down to the lot size;

- the exchange adds a margin reserve plus rounds the number down;

- with cross-margin, everything is generally more complicated (it involves the total funds of the account, not just one order).

Everything else is in the exchange's stash, like if you went to a restaurant with $100, ordered food for $90, and left $10 in case you spill wine on the tablecloth.

🎻 How does it look in practice? You set a limit order at 102120 USDT, want a long on 1000 USDT.

Okay. With 25x leverage, you get a position of about 0.009 BTC. And that's 919.08 USDT.

And where is the rest?

It's in a box labeled 'just in case you decide to play hero without a helmet, spider-men without webs, batman without the bat-mobile'.

🎪 The outcome is in question.

You don’t lose money, you just are NOT the helmsman, like in an opera theater, you can be in the hall, can clap at the right moments, but the conductor is the exchange. It decides when to let you play the whole symphony and when to hold back some of your brass.

🧠 What to do?

Want all 1000 USDT? Try to increase the BTC volume with your hands.

Afraid of volatility?

Don't jump into cross, go for isolated margin.

Or better yet, just know: the exchange is not an ATM, but a casino with rules, and 'the leftovers are sweet' only if you're not in shorts under a long.

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