Introduction to Bittime Unified Futures Trading Account – Bittime

What is the Unified Futures Trading Account?

Bittime's Unified Futures Trading Account consolidates USDT-M futures accounts into a single account, streamlining the trading experience.

This account-level margin system supports over 40 cryptocurrencies as collateral, allowing unrealized profits to be used as margin for trading different product types. The Unified Futures Trading Account offers two margin modes—Isolated Margin and Cross Margin—providing traders with greater flexibility in managing their positions.

Margin Modes Supported in the Unified Futures Trading Account

In Cross Margin mode, the Unified Futures Trading Account leverages the entire asset value of the account, including unrealized profits, to maintain and initiate derivative positions. This method enhances capital efficiency by allowing profits and losses from different derivatives to offset each other and calculating margins at the account level, rather than per position.

Additionally, for traders who prefer a trading setup similar to the Standard Account, Isolated Margin mode is available. This mode allows traders to segregate margins for individual positions, thus limiting potential trading losses to the specific allocated amount per position.

The table below shows the various margin modes supported by the Unified Futures Trading Account.

Account Margin Mode	Benefits	Assets Mode	Supported Products
Isolated Mode	Individual Margin Calculations for Positions.Orders in one position do not affect other positions, minimizing potential loss to the margin of that specific position.	Only Allowed USDT assets	USDT-M Contracts
Cross Margin Mode	Profits and losses across different products can offset each other, allowing profits to be used to open new positions.	Only Allowed USDT assets	USDT-M Contracts

Notes:

— After the upgrade, you will not be able to switch back to your USDT-M Futures Accounts.

Risk Management

Under Cross Margin mode, the Unified Trading Account (UTA) calculates all risks and assets in USD. Positions can be maintained as long as the account's maintenance margin rate is below 100%. Liquidation is triggered when the maintenance margin rate reaches or exceeds 100%.

Under Isolated Margin mode, the UTA segregates the margin used for an individual position from the account balance. Liquidation is triggered when the Mark Price reaches or exceeds the Liquidation Price.

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