Kyan uses a portfolio margin system, which means leverage is automatically calculated for you based on the risk of your entire portfolio. This makes Kyan more flexible and more capital-efficient.
Below is everything you need to know about how leverage works on Kyan.
How Leverage Works Under Portfolio Margin
Traditional exchanges often give you a leverage slider. Kyan doesn’t.
Instead, Kyan analyzes:
Your complete set of positions (perps, options, and combos)
How those positions behave under different market scenarios
How much risk your portfolio adds or offsets
Then Kyan automatically determines:
The maximum leverage available to you based on those requirements
This system ensures your leverage is always aligned with the real risk of your positions.
Why Kyan Doesn’t Have a Leverage Slider
Because leverage is tied to portfolio risk, manually picking a random leverage level doesn’t make sense in this framework.
If your portfolio is low-risk, you’ll naturally get higher allowable leverage.
If your portfolio is high-risk or directional, your max leverage decreases.
On Kyan, you always operate at the maximum safe leverage for your portfolio at that moment.