# Shock Price

**URL:** https://forum.world.inc/t/shock-price/61
**Category:** General
**Created:** [February 14, 2026, 12:52am UTC](https://forum.world.inc/t/shock-price/61 "2026-02-14T00:52:33Z")
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### Author: ![lucas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lucas](https://forum.world.inc/u/lucas)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.world.inc/t/shock-price/61/2 "2026-02-16T18:37:52Z")

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Great question! The shock price is part of the risk engine’s Available Margin calculation. What the risk engine is doing fundamentally is looking at the dollar value (more accurately, the USDM value) of your portfolio if the market were to move **against** it.

It does this on a _per-asset_ basis. So, let’s say you are _net long_ ETH, like in your example. Then, the risk engine asks “what would be the dollar value of your ETH if the price of ETH went _down_?” The natural question from there should be “down by how much?” and the answer to that is the shock price. The shock price is the price at which the risk engine is valuing your ETH position(s) - the result is the dollar value that your ETH position(s) contribute to your available margin.

Here’s a related post with a video of me explaining the risk engine: [How does margin work?](https://forum.world.inc/t/how-does-margin-work/11)

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