Trading on a margin is growing in popularity among crypto traders. Among the features these traders look for the most are platform stability, anonymity and big leverages. Margex derivatives exchange, a new cryptocurrency margin trading service, built in these featues as their cornerstones. In this Margex review, we will go through all important offerings and unique advantages that separate Margex from their established competitors. 

In the beginning, we can say with high certainty that this new player has a lot to offer and will definitely rock some boats and give the big guns a run for their money.

So, let’s enter the trenches and see what is under the hood of the Margex crypto exchange.

Margex review: Key Features

Right off the bat, let’s highlight the essential hallmarks of Margex exchange:

What I liked about Margex is the concise and straight to the point approach. In everything – from their documentation and knowledge center, to the trading interface.

There is no clutter, surplus information or pesky banners popping out of every corner. Everything is simple, intuitive and easy to handle. If you already dealt with margin exchanges, you will know to appreciate the spick and span look of Margin dashboard.

The left-side widget shows your balance, order types and leverage. We will talk more about the order types below but it is worth mentioning that Margex does support take profit and stop loss orders, a huge profit securing mechanisms that lacks on some of the more popular platforms.

The center part is filled with the main features: a familiar, feature-rich trading chart powered by TradingView (huge plus) and right below it overview of all active and past orders and positions.

The right side widget displays the orderbook and last trades tabs.

Margex currently offers trading pairs of most popular cryptocoins with USD.

Like many similar exchanges, Margex is also a bitcoin-only platform when it comes to withdrawals. However, you can deposit funds with either bitcoin or fiat, thanks to their integration with Changelly, a service where you can buy crypto with credit and debit cards.

But please do note that, the exchange natively supports only bitcoin deposits. The Changelly widget is a separate third-party service that is embedded in the Margex dashboard for user convenience – the actual process of buying crypto with fiat is done outside of Margex platform.

Another rule worth highlighting is the withdrawal process. It is done once per day at 13:00 UTC.

As you would expect from a new challenger that is serious in its endeavor to take on the incumbents, Margex made sure to lure traders with lowest possible fees, blowing most of its competitors out of the water. 

The fees are based on the maker/taker model, as is the standard among the crypto margin exchanges. Maker and Taker fees are 0.019% and 0.060% respectively for all trading pairs. Funding occurs every 8 hours, just like it does on BitMex and other competitors.

Trader will only pay or receive funding if he holds a position at funding times. 

The funding you pay or receive is calculated as:

Funding = Position Value * Funding Rate

When the Funding Rate is positive, longs pay shorts. When it is negative, shorts pay longs.

For reference, here is a table of trading fees charged by other derivative platforms active in the cryptocurrency industry:

This is Margex’s own invention, a price manipulation protection mechanism.

In a nutshell, MP Shield is a prevention tool that protects Margex traders from price flash crashes that have caused heaps of outrage among BitMex traders over the years as the platform would regularly suffer those events which led to hundreds of millions of USD losses by the traders.

Margex explains how this MP Shield works like this:

An asset’s price on Margex is dependent on the combined liquidity of 12+ different providers
Margex does not offer illiquid assets with prices that are artificially inflated via false and misleading statements, which are made in order to sell these cheaply purchased assets at a higher price (know as Pump and Dump)
AI-based algorithmic technology by Margex continuously monitors the consistency of received price feeds from each liquidity provider
In order to provide fair and equal trading opportunities for all traders, Margex continuously monitors all suspicious trading activities.

Margex offers the following order types:

We won’t be explaining these in too much details since we assume our readers know what all of them do. But we will commend Margex for featuring the important protective orders like SL and TP.

Margex utilizes the very best of cryptocurrency and bank-grade security standards. 100% of the assets are stored in cold offline wallets, while you can secure your account via the 2FA. There is no IP whitelisting, which can be considered a minor deficiency. But there is an email notification system that shoots out an email about every activity conducted on your accoutn.

Americans are not allowed on Margex (surprise, surprise).

Why do so many crypto exchanges forbid US citizens to open accounts with them? The answer is only three letters short: S, E and C (the Securities Exchange Commission). The reason the SEC is so rigid and ban-friendly is because the US does not allow foreign companies to solicit US investors, unless those foreign companies are also registered in the US (with the SEC). If foreign companies solicit US investors anyway, the SEC can file a lawsuit against them.

Before we wrap this Margex review up, let’s make a short brief of the whole article:

Margex is a true refreshment in the crypto derivatives space. The platform offers low fees, high leverage and security standards. It also protects its traders from unfair liquidations and requires no KYC.

The only negatives are: the fact that it is a new platform and little or no data is available on the company behind the platform.

If you are not fond of Margex, here is a list of potential crypto margin exchanges that can be good alternatives:

You only pay the miners fees, Margex charges no extra cost.

Yes, via Changelly embedded widget – you can buy bitcoin with credit card and it will go straight to your Margex wallet.

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