closes you out →the leveraged traderthe lender
Whoever trades with leverage puts up part of the money and borrows the rest from the platform. If the price falls past a certain threshold, it isn’t whoever opened the position who decides to sell. It is the platform that closes it and sells into the market to get its loan back.

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