This guide walks you through one complete cycle of a leveraged spot trade on StableStock: funding your leverage account, opening a position at your chosen ratio, monitoring it, and closing it. It assumes you've already decided to trade with leverage and know the risks — if you want the concepts first, start with the risk primer linked below and come back.
→ Leverage risks explained: LTV, margin calls, and liquidation
Before You Start: Three Prerequisites
Create your StableStock account at app.stablestock.finance. If you already trade spot on StableStock, skip ahead.
Complete KYC. You'll need identity verification, the investor questionnaire, and a risk assessment. Steps you've already completed for spot trading are skipped — most users only need the additional risk assessment.
Link an email address in your account settings. This is where risk warnings are sent when a position approaches its warning line. Do this before your first trade, not after.
Step 1: Fund Your Leverage Account
Leveraged positions draw from a dedicated leverage account, separate from your spot balance. Transfer USDT or USDC into it — this is the collateral your positions will be built on.
Each position you open runs in isolated mode, meaning the collateral you assign to it is ring-fenced: its maximum loss is capped at what you put in, and the rest of your account is walled off.
Step 2: Pick Your Stock and Check Its Terms
Leverage is available on 700+ US and Hong Kong names, including inverse ETFs. Each stock sets its own terms — maximum leverage (up to ~10x), position limits, and trading hours — shown live on its order page. Check them there rather than assuming; a ratio available on one name may not be available on another.
Step 3: Toggle Leverage and Choose Your Ratio
On the order page, switch the trade mode to Leverage, then select your ratio. The platform splits the position automatically: at 10x, a 100 USDT position uses 10 USDT of your collateral and 90 USDT of borrowed capital.
Two practical rules when choosing the ratio:
Lower is more forgiving. The same price drop moves LTV toward liquidation faster at 10x than at 3x. For a first position, most traders are better served proving the workflow at a low ratio.
Decide your exit trigger now. Before you confirm the order, pick the LTV level at which you'll add collateral, trim, or close. Pre-committed decisions beat drawdown decisions.
Confirm the order. You now have a live leveraged position.
Step 4: Know Your One Number — LTV
Every position shows a single risk metric: LTV (loan-to-value) — your liabilities relative to the position's value plus the cash in its isolated account. It shows green in the safe zone and turns red at the warning line.
Under Position → Interest you'll also see your live borrowing rate and a countdown to the next interest settlement. Interest settles every 4 hours at six fixed points a day, in the local time of the market where the stock trades — but settlement points that fall inside the trading session are waived on trading days. In practice: close within the session and you pay zero interest; hold overnight and you carry roughly one day's financing (at an illustrative ~15% APR, about 4.1 USDT per 10,000 borrowed per day).
→ How interest and repayment work
Step 5: If LTV Climbs — Three Buttons
When LTV approaches the warning line, you have three tools, all one tap from the position screen:
Add collateral — top up the position; exposure stays intact
Sell — close part of the position; exposure shrinks permanently
Adjust leverage — bring the ratio back into the safe zone
Which to use depends on whether your thesis is intact — the decision guide linked below covers it. What matters operationally: act at the warning line, not the liquidation line. If LTV reaches the liquidation line, the system force-closes the position and a 1% liquidation fee applies on the sale value. Acting early is always cheaper.
→ Add collateral or cut the position? How to decide
Step 6: Close and Settle
Close the position from the position screen. Sale proceeds repay the loan and accrued interest first; what remains returns to your leverage account as collateral, ready for the next trade or a transfer back to spot.
If you close before an interest settlement point, the partial period costs nothing — one more reason intraday round trips are the cheapest way to learn the workflow.
Everything under this flow — custody of the real shares, the lending, the settlement — runs behind the scenes. You trade; the plumbing is handled.
Takeaway: Fund the leverage account, check the stock's terms, choose a conservative ratio with a pre-committed exit trigger, watch LTV, act at the warning line rather than the liquidation line, and close inside the session while you're learning. The mechanics take five minutes; the discipline is the actual skill.
Next steps
For informational purposes only. Not an offer, solicitation, or investment advice. Leveraged trading involves significant risk, including the loss of your entire collateral. Rates, leverage limits, and risk parameters vary by stock and may change without notice; live figures in the app take precedence. KYC verification is required. Services are not available to U.S. persons or residents of restricted jurisdictions (including Hong Kong).
