1000× leverage explained
Updated Oct 28, 2026
At 1000× leverage, a $10 stake moves like a $10,000 position. A price move of 0.1% against you is enough to lose the whole stake, and it can happen in minutes. No trade in the Moon Alerts archive used more than 1000×, on any market, and it is by far the most common choice: of the trades archived between 15 August and 28 October 2026, 65% used exactly 1000× and 77% used 500× or more.
This guide shows what that leverage does to a trade, why wins and losses are not mirror images, and what happened to the high-leverage positions we tracked.
What leverage does
Leverage turns the stake into a bigger position. It also shrinks the distance to liquidation, which is always 1 divided by the leverage (How liquidations work has the exact formula). For a $10 stake, the position it controls and the move against you that liquidates it:
| Leverage | Position | Move to liquidation |
|---|---|---|
| 1× | $10 | 100% |
| 10× | $100 | 10% |
| 100× | $1,000 | 1% |
| 500× | $5,000 | 0.2% |
| 1000× | $10,000 | 0.1% |
Moon.com takes its opening fee out of the stake first (1% of the stake on 99% of the positions where we record the fee), so the real position is slightly smaller: $9,900 for $10 at 1000×.
How small is 0.1%?
With Bitcoin at $84,000, 0.1% is $84. A long opened at $84,000 with 1000× is liquidated at $83,916, and a short at $84,084. The liquidation calculator gives this line for any market, entry price and leverage.
The biggest liquidations in our archive show how fast that can go. A $500,000 short on Bitcoin at 1000×, opened at $77,001.54 on 22 August 2026 at 16:02 UTC, was liquidated 13 minutes later at $77,081, 0.10% above its entry price. Another $500,000 short, also on Bitcoin at 1000×, had been liquidated the same way earlier that day, less than four minutes after it opened.
The size of the stake changes nothing here: at 1000×, $1 and $500,000 opened at the same price are liquidated at exactly the same price.
Wins are not the mirror of losses
A loss counts the full price move. A win does not: Moon.com pays a winning position on a "filled" price that keeps only part of the move, and a smaller part when the move is small (our methodology explains how we estimate it). With Moon.com's settings for Bitcoin as of 28 October 2026, this is what a $10 long at 1000× returns:
| Price move | Share paid | Result on $10 |
|---|---|---|
| 0.1% against you | full move | −$10, the whole stake |
| 0.05% in your favour | 35% | +$1.63 |
| 0.1% in your favour | 50% | +$4.88 |
| 0.5% in your favour | 78% | +$38.38 |
| 1% in your favour | 83% | +$82.48 |
So the price has to rise about 0.17% to double the stake, while a 0.1% fall wipes it out. If the price moved at random, it would reach the liquidation line before the doubling line about 6 times in 10.
A position held open longer than 8 hours can also be charged a holding fee every 8 hours. Moon.com takes it from the account balance and can close the position automatically when the balance cannot cover it. In our archive, 81 positions were closed this way, the last one on 14 September 2026. As of 28 October 2026, this fee stood at zero on every position where we record it, including some open since early September.
What happened to high-leverage trades
Moon Alerts follows positions from the moment they open to their real outcome, so the way a trade reached us cannot favour wins. Across the 272,968 positions tracked this way since 15 August 2026 (figures as of 28 October 2026):
| Leverage | Positions | Won | Liquidated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1× to 9× | 4,272 | 12.0% | 1.5% |
| 10× to 49× | 9,675 | 34.8% | 6.0% |
| 50× to 99× | 7,918 | 40.6% | 12.6% |
| 100× to 499× | 47,667 | 42.7% | 24.7% |
| 500× and more | 203,436 | 41.1% | 38.8% |
Two things stand out. Above 50×, the share of winning trades barely moves, around 41%: more leverage does not buy more wins. The share of liquidations, though, climbs with every step, to almost 4 in 10 at 500× and more. At the other end, few trades win at very low leverage, and two thirds of the trades in the 1× to 9× group closed with a loss of 2% of the stake or less. The opening fee is one likely reason: recovering 1% of the stake takes a 1% price move at 1×, and only a tiny fraction of that at 1000×.
Big multipliers do happen. The record multiplier in our archive is a $1.30 short on Titan at 1000×, a synthetic market, closed on 18 October 2026 with a profit of $144.23: a payout of about 112 times the stake. Records keeps the current highs, and the lows next to them.
Leverage caps
Moon.com can lower the maximum leverage around some events. In its calendar as of 28 October 2026, stocks, indices, commodities and forex pairs are capped at 100× for 20 minutes when markets reopen after the weekend, on Sunday evening UTC, and open positions above the cap are closed automatically. The synthetic markets, Titan and Orbit, have been reset every Sunday at 23:50 UTC since 11 October 2026: trading pauses for about 15 minutes and all open positions are closed.
Watch 1000× trades live
- Live positions: the biggest open positions at 500× and more, with their liquidation price and estimated P&L.
- Trade history: every closed trade we track at 500× and more, wins and liquidations alike.
- Bitcoin: one of the busiest markets, with its open positions and latest trades.
Ways to give a trade more room
At 1000×, ordinary market noise is enough to end a trade, and the table above shows how often it does. Lower leverage moves the liquidation price further away: 1% at 100×, 10% at 10×. A stop-loss below 100% of the stake closes the trade before liquidation and usually returns part of the stake. Moon.com sets it at 100% by default, exactly at the liquidation price, and 91% of the positions where we record it kept it there (as of 28 October 2026). How liquidations work covers both in detail.