On Kyan, a portfolio is the fundamental unit of risk management and trading. Every sub-account you create contains portfolios for each supported asset (BTC, ETH). These portfolios track your open positions, balances, and margin requirements in real time.
Think of a portfolio as a container that holds everything you’re doing with one asset inside one sub-account. If you’re trading ETH options and ETH perps, all of those trades live inside your ETH portfolio, where Kyan’s risk engine calculates the combined effect of every position.
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Portfolios and Risk
Kyan doesn’t evaluate trades in isolation. It looks at the net risk of the entire portfolio, which means that your positions affect each other:
If you hold offsetting positions, your required margin decreases.
If your positions amplify each other’s risk, margin requirements rise.
This portfolio-level approach makes trading more capital efficient and ensures that risks are managed holistically.