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How Does the Risk Limit System Help Prevent Fund Depletion?

A risk limit system imposes a maximum position size and/or leverage a trader can use, which scales inversely with the size of their position. As a trader increases their open contract size, the required maintenance margin increases, or their maximum allowed leverage decreases.

This prevents single, extremely large liquidations from causing massive deficits that could drain the insurance fund.

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