How Is This Possible?

Emma Lee · June 29, 2018, 06:00:23 PM

Protection in low-liquidity markets, interesting. So it's to prevent the shorts from selling at a really bad price?

armin · May 13, 2018, 11:22:03 PM

Ok this makes more sense, I'll have to read the BSIP to understand why this was the initial design

pc · May 10, 2018, 03:41:23 PM

Actually the reason is different (I assume, it isn't spelled out anywhere AFAIK).
The price of the best offer is outside the margin call territory. If the feed price was where the internal market is, the call wouldn't be margin called.

armin · May 10, 2018, 12:06:25 PM

Quote from: xeroc on May 07, 2018, 08:23:46 AM
... However those margin calls are not executed because there are orders above the price feed .. It's a protection for short squeezes in low-liquid markets

This doesn't make sense lol, if there's bids above the price feed then executing the margin call is actually a good deal. How is it protecting against low-liquidity markets?

armin · May 07, 2018, 09:47:16 AM

Protection in low-liquidity markets, interesting. So it's to prevent the shorts from selling at a really bad price?

xeroc · May 07, 2018, 08:23:46 AM

... However those margin calls are not executed because there are orders above the price feed .. It's a protection for short squeezes in low-liquid markets

JonnyB · May 06, 2018, 02:03:07 PM

margin calls are punished with a bad price (feed - 10%) for not manually closing positions or maintaining collateral.

armin · May 04, 2018, 01:00:23 PM

Figured it out, seems like is a bug and will be fixed next hard fork.

armin · May 04, 2018, 04:30:14 AM

The margin call price is lower than the highest bid, shouldn't it get filled automatically?