What $100 would have done, by leverage
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Every minute in the window is walked in order and the worst price inside each bar is tested against the liquidation level before the close, so a position that was liquidated mid-window stays liquidated even if the price later recovered. Opened on the ask and marked on the bid for a long, and the reverse for a short. Indicative example based on third-party market data. Moon's reference price, spread, fees, settlement and liquidation rules may produce a different result.
What a move would mean
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| Bet | Wager | Leverage | Entry | Liquidation | Mark | Profit / Loss | Multiplier | Action |
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Leveraged SPY over the last 6.5 hours: what it gained and what it lost
S&P 500 ETF drifted +0.17% over 6.5 hours, $764.73 to $766.01. $100 on the long is $99.33 at 2x and $115.74 at 100x, +15.7% against -0.7%. Wrong side at 50x and $90.63 of the $100 is still there. Open, technically. 2 of 14 rungs did not finish the window. Last to go was 1000x long, after 3.2 hours. 100x was the top rung left standing either way. None of that touches the 1% the round trip already took. SPY owes 0.01% to square it, roughly 2% of a normal session.
Leveraged trading of S&P 500 ETF (SPY): what has been happening
$766.01 last, +0.02% on the session, -0.40% across five. SPY is +3.39% on the month, so it arrives grinding higher. Three months reads +2.07%, year to date +12.13%. 2 straight closes higher, for anyone counting. The 30-session range is $729.10 to $779.37, which puts the last price -1.71% off the high and +5.06% off the low.
How volatile is SPY right now
Realised volatility over 30 sessions annualises to 12.3%, against 12.7% over 90. By leveraged standards that is a bond fund with a ticker. Average true range across 14 sessions is 0.62% of price, and an ordinary day swings about 0.77% either side of flat. Worst case from an open: 1.47% over 30 sessions, 2.83% over 90. Every multiplier decision on SPY is downstream of those two figures.
What leverage SPY actually survives
Run the last 30 sessions and 50x is the top rung that never got closed out. Its liquidation sits 2.000% away, against a worst session of 1.47%. Open the window to 90 sessions and it falls to 20x. SPY has gone 1.000% against an open-price long, which is where 100x ends, on 10 of the last 90 sessions. That is 11% of them. 1000x asks SPY to stay within 0.1000%, which it failed to do 76 times in 90. Per minute rather than per session: median bar 0.0105%, and 0.3% of them would close 1000x without any help from the rest of the day.
SPY liquidation distance and hit rate by leverage
| Leverage | Liquidation distance | Sessions it was hit | Hit rate | Round-trip cost vs stake |
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| 2x | 50.0000% | 0 / 90 | 0% | 1.0% |
| 5x | 20.0000% | 0 / 90 | 0% | 1.0% |
| 10x | 10.0000% | 0 / 90 | 0% | 1.0% |
| 20x | 5.0000% | 0 / 90 | 0% | 1.0% |
| 50x | 2.0000% | 2 / 90 | 2% | 1.0% |
| 100x | 1.0000% | 10 / 90 | 11% | 1.0% |
| 200x | 0.5000% | 37 / 90 | 41% | 1.0% |
| 500x | 0.2000% | 63 / 90 | 70% | 1.0% |
| 1000x | 0.1000% | 76 / 90 | 84% | 1.0% |
Max loss distance is one part in the leverage, because Moon closes a wager once it has lost the wager and documents no maintenance buffer. Hit count is the number of the last 90 sessions where the low fell that far below the session open, i.e. where a long opened at the open would have reached its max loss price intraday. Cost is Moon's 1% opening fee, charged on the wager and not on the exposure, so it does not change down the ladder. A rolling fee applies every 8 hours at a rate Moon does not publish and is not included.
What a leveraged SPY position costs
1% to open, charged on the stake, which means the number does not move when the multiplier goes from 10x to 1000x. The fee eats 1% of the room between entry and the max loss price. At 1000x the room is 0.100% and the share is still 1%. Measured on its own tape, SPY clears the 1.00% that kills a 100x wager 0.6 times in a typical session. Hold past 8 hours and there is a second fee, unpublished, which is why nothing here quotes a cost for a position carried overnight. The 1000x rung leaves 0.100% of room on SPY and costs the same 1% as the 2x rung, which leaves 50%.
SPY leverage questions
What leverage is realistic on SPY?
On the last 30 sessions of data the highest rung that avoided liquidation on every session was 50x, which liquidates on a 2.000% adverse move.
How far can SPY fall before a 100x long is liquidated?
1.000%. Moon closes the wager once it has lost the stake, and at 100x that is a one percent move, with no maintenance buffer ahead of it. SPY moved at least that far against an open-price long on 10 of the last 90 sessions.
What does it cost to open a wager on SPY?
1% of the wager. Moon charges the opening fee on the capital you commit and not on the leveraged exposure, so the figure does not change as the multiplier does. A position held past 8 hours also pays a rolling fee, at a rate Moon describes as dynamic and does not publish, so it is not modelled here.
How volatile is SPY right now?
30-session realised volatility annualises to 12.3% and 14-session average true range is 0.62% of price.
Does 1000x leverage make sense on SPY?
The fee does not settle it. Opening costs 1% of the wager at 1000x exactly as it does at 2x, so cost is not the objection. The stop is. Max loss sits 0.1000% from entry, which SPY can cover inside a single minute bar, and it did so on 76 of the last 90 sessions against an open-price long. Losses stop at the wager, so the question is not whether you can afford the fee. It is how long you expect to last.
What has S&P 500 ETF done recently?
+0.02% on the last session, -0.40% over five sessions, +3.39% over a month and +12.13% year to date, inside a 30-session range of $729.10 to $779.37.
Before you take this to Moon
Everything above is derived from independent third-party market data. Moon prices its own book: the reference price, the spread it quotes, its fee schedule, its funding rate and its liquidation engine are all Moon's, and they will produce a different number from this page. Use this as a model of the mechanics on SPY, then check the live figures on Moon before committing anything.
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What this simulator is
Prices come from Twelve Data, an independent market-data vendor, and are indicative. Moon's own reference price, spread, fee schedule, funding and liquidation rules will produce a different result. No money is staked here, no order is routed, and no position exists on any venue. At 1000× leverage a 0.01% difference between this chart and Moon's settlement feed moves the position value by roughly 10% of the stake, so treat every number below as an illustration of mechanics rather than a forecast of outcome.
Leverage arithmetic used
Exposure = stake × leverage. Long P/L = exposure × (mark − entry) ÷ entry. Short P/L = exposure × (entry − mark) ÷ entry. Entry takes the ask for a long and the bid for a short; closing does the reverse, so the spread is charged on the round trip. Liquidation triggers when equity falls to the maintenance margin, i.e. at an adverse move of (1 − leverage × maintenance rate) ÷ leverage.
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