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# Read your risk

If you have borrowed, one number decides everything: **health**. Above 1.00 your position stands. Below it, anyone can repay part of your debt and take collateral for it.

## On the main screen

Health sits under your position, with the boundary named rather than only the number — "1.40" alone does not tell anybody what would break it.

<figure><img src="/files/Okeg8qva97R3tTW51E8l" alt="The position summary with a health readout"><figcaption><p>Health appears only when you have debt. With none, there is nothing to be liquidated for.</p></figcaption></figure>

| Band             | Health         | What it means                                     |
| ---------------- | -------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| **Safe**         | 1.50 and above | Room to absorb a fall in bCOOK                    |
| **Caution**      | 1.10 – 1.49    | Standing, with less margin than you probably want |
| **Danger**       | 1.00 – 1.09    | One bad epoch from liquidation                    |
| **Liquidatable** | below 1.00     | Anyone may liquidate you now                      |

## Before you commit

Every sheet projects the health you would land at, live, as you type. This is the number worth looking at — not the one you have now.

<figure><img src="/files/5f4I2o6rycahH3Qv47kS" alt="Health after, changing as an amount is typed into the Borrow sheet"><figcaption><p>The same collateral, three borrow amounts. The projection is the same arithmetic the program uses.</p></figcaption></figure>

## On Portfolio

Portfolio leads with where you stand, and states the price at which you would be liquidated.

<figure><img src="/files/rBTqmkNgMzzFUWGdzj77" alt="The health standing"><figcaption><p>A position in the danger band.</p></figcaption></figure>

{% hint style="warning" %}
**The two markers are not the same line.** 55% is where Aera stops letting you borrow. 65% is where somebody else can take your collateral. Reading them as one number is the most expensive mistake available on this screen.
{% endhint %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/ctOgnD8L9ahjXMtH8UoU" %}
[Health and liquidation](/how-it-works/health-and-liquidation.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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