Here's something wild about how certain platforms handle liquidations.

Usually, the game works like this: when your position gets liquidated, you walk away with roughly half your initial margin still intact. That's the standard safety net.

But recently? Things got messy. Positions on one particular platform weren't getting closed when they should've been. We're talking about trades bleeding way past that 50% initial margin threshold—just sitting there, racking up losses.

I experienced this firsthand. Picture this: I had a $43,000 short position running on just $1,500 in margin. Yeah, you read that right. The math wasn't mathing, and the liquidation engine? Nowhere to be found when it mattered most.

That's not a feature. That's a gap in the system that can wreck accounts in real-time.