Name the collateral
What did you post, and what happens to it if the move is rude?
Margin is a loan from a mechanism that does not love you. Read the mechanism.
Margin is the polite word people use when they mean borrowed notional. In traditional shops it comes with a broker and a margin call phone tree. In venue-native shops it comes with a maintenance ratio and a liquidation engine. OpenFidex will not pretend those are the same customer-service experience.
If the ticket borrows, this page applies. The leverage URL is the dial. This one is the relationship: you posted something, you can lose more than a cash debit you planned, and the AI does not get to “optimize your borrowing” like a cheerful loan officer.
Use this as a checklist. None of it is a trading recommendation.
What did you post, and what happens to it if the move is rude?
Initial is the sales pitch. Maintenance is the trapdoor.
Idle is often the only reason you are still solvent.
There may be no phone call. There may be only a smaller number.
We are not extending you a friendly line. A venue mechanism might be. Know which.
If you do not know which you are in, you are in a horror movie. Check.
This page is the borrowing relationship. Read both if you use either.
If a sentence sounds like “put that cash to work,” close the card. That is lender energy.
Do not rely on us as your risk ops desk. Alerts may exist. Mechanisms will not wait for your inbox.
It can contain a blast. It can also liquidate a single idea faster. Safer is not a sticker.
It may comment. It does not get a standing right to reshuffle your life.
Perps are an instrument family. Margin is a financing relationship that can show up on more than one family.
No. OpenFidex is a non-custodial software interface. A wallet is created in your browser, you keep the keys, and you cryptographically sign every order before it reaches a third-party venue such as Hyperliquid. The software does not take custody of assets and does not submit transactions unless you sign them.
Nearby guides on the same topic — different intent, different copy.
Create an account with your email. You sign every transaction from your own wallet.